While men make up the highest percentage of people with SUDs, women tend to find it more challenging to quit drugs due to hormonal fluctuations. Despite the added struggles they still tend to be judged more harshly.

In therapy, if the client-therapist relationship is strong, it is much more likely that therapy will be successful and that the client will reach their goals. In fact, it may be the most influential factor in creating successful outcomes other than the overall skill and competence of the therapist themself.

Here are some tips that can help you look and feel like the best version of yourself, no matter how many birthdays you have seen.

Jung was very well known for contributing new concepts to psychology that invoked a sense of imagination and symbolism, and simultaneously, an appeal to science and rational skepticism. Jung is probably best known for developing a framework to understand our conscious and unconscious by looking at it through a prism of archetypes and symbols as well as looking at our own past events to understand the present.

Does coronavirus really affect our communication skills? To answer this question, we look at how drastic changes in the home and business environments amid the COVID pandemic affect communication! Find out more today.

What is mindful eating? How to practice it? What are the advantages it brings? If you’re an active person, keep reading - you’ll be surprised how making mindful eating a part of your daily diet can benefit your body.

The past 40 years have yielded unprecedented knowledge about what we need in order to have “healthy” relationships. In this case, I use the word “healthy” to mean that it is a relationship in which there is a good chance that each person will have their emotional needs met and that the relationship has the potential for long-term happiness.

Unpleasant or more commonly known as “negative” feelings are often misunderstood and poorly handled in our culture. We are conditioned to believe that it is best to experience as many pleasant or “positive” feelings as possible and avoid negative feelings as much as we can. This principle misguided, because the entire range of our feelings, both pleasant and unpleasant can be of great service to our lives.

Self-care is a vital habit for all those seeking to live a healthy, sustainable life. Nowadays, the lives of many people are hurried and noisy. In such circumstances, feeling healthy and rested can be very difficult. When you’re stressed and burned out all the time, your health is bound to take a hit. The key is in practicing self-care. This term refers to a range of activities that nurture the body and soul. The intention is to restore health, enhance energy, and reduce stress.

There is little doubt that the global pandemic is going to change life as we know it forever. But how, exactly? Look out below for a few temporary – and sometimes hilarious – ways life has changed, as well as a few of the more impactful ways that the world will never be the same.

There are ways you can make changes to your current work routine that enhance work-life balance. Nevertheless, it’s always ideal that you think about how your pursuits outside work will coexist with your workplace responsibilities before you apply for or accept a new job. Either way, work-life balance is primarily dependent on what you do and not just what your employer allows you to.

Seniors with dementia will see a decreased ability in memory, communication, focus, reasoning or judgment, as well as a decrease in their visual perception ability. Initially, those living with dementia are fairly independent. As the disease progresses, limitations become greater and the individual with dementia may no longer be able to live on their own.

Dr. Vitaly Kushnir from Eden Fertility Centers in New Port Beach, CA sits down for a conversation with Sandra Kushnir, LMFT on the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic is having on individuals going through IVF. We are here to share ways to cope better with the feelings/stress that is coming up during this crisis.

For thousands of years, meditation has been practiced by people for their physical as well as mental well being. As per the researchers, meditation helps people in decreasing their anxiety and depression levels. With that, their pain tolerance also increases. Meditation helps in focusing on yourself by eliminating many thoughts apart from yourself. This process helps in memory improvement and self-awareness.

There are some easy options to help prepare your mental health when going through a career change. Exercises to keep the brain thinking positively and at its optimal performance are crucial. Here are some to consider.

When life-threatening emergencies arise, fear begins to work in mysterious ways and it invokes a wide range of individual responses. To better understand the collective crisis and process the seemingly odd behavior of others, let’s demystify the varying degrees of the fear response. More importantly, building awareness around why you may react in a certain way and why others may respond so differently has the power to transform exasperation and judgment into empathy and collaboration, in a time where we are in dire need of the latter.

Vlog: Sandra Kushnir, LMFT discusses the impact of attachment styles on your relationships, emotional regulations and self-image.

Women have been pitted against one another for centuries. Whether it be for the attention of men, careers, looks, or even family life, women are no strangers to the fight. Moving forward, we have turned our fight from one another to the betterment of our own and to nurture the quality of our society.

In our highly social culture, it’s typical for us to flat out reject the idea of spending time solo. We assume that alone time means that we are anti-social, unwanted, or even unloveable. Essentially, we confuse spending time alone with loneliness, although there is a marked difference. Loneliness is finding ourselves alone when we crave company while being alone is an active choice for solitude.