What is Respect?
Weekly Theme: What is Respect? Growing up we learned that respect is saying please and thank you, making eye contact when shaking hands, or...
Read MoreRoar with Confidence in 2022, the Year of the Water Tiger
Roar with Confidence in 2022, the Year of the Water Tiger In addition to evidence-based practices like psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, Barn Life...
Read MoreImprovisation: Flexibility and Creativity for Mental Wellness
Improving Mental Wellness with Improvisation What is improvisation, anyway? Google a definition and you’ll get “the act of improvising” - helpful, isn’t it? Let’s...
Read MoreReturning to the Present
Sometimes you hear a pull to return Like a fish out of water hears the waves Or a falcon hears the wind “Come back,...
Read MoreFamily and Accountability
The Value of Family Family – a word that can carry such pain and yearning yet also warmth and purpose. Barn Life practices the...
Read MoreWhat is Self-Love?
Self-Love is a Basic Human Necessity What are basic human necessities? Some include food, water, air, and shelter. These things we quite literally cannot...
Read MoreThe Power of Forgiveness
Forgiveness: The Ultimate Symbol of Strength Those of us in recovery who have spent some time among the twelve-step community know that...
Read MoreInner Child Healing
Inner Child Healing: A Meditation Exercise Your inner child is exactly what it sounds like. Specifically, little you inside of adult you. In other...
Read MoreCrisis is Choice
The Turning Point Within Have you ever been in a situation faced with an important challenge that felt insurmountable by your usual methods of...
Read MoreIntroduction to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Can Happen to Anyone Continuing with the idea that we are not our diagnoses, we want to discuss post-traumatic stress...
Read MorePsychosis and Schizophrenia
What is Psychosis? Psychosis is sensory perceptions and abnormal thinking experienced by an individual struggling with a schizophrenia spectrum or other psychotic-based disorder. Reminder!...
Read MoreThe Nature of Depression
Changing Perspective on Depression For some, “depression” is a scary word that carries a connotation of weakness and shame. For others, it’s a...
Read MoreThe Nature of Anxiety
The Nature of Anxiety Extreme and constant emotional states (i.e. mania, anger, fear, sorrow, grief, and worry) lead to serious mental health disorders...
Read MoreYou Are Not Your Diagnosis
Navigating the Sea of Modern Mental Health Diagnosis Our themes from this week forward are going to be a general overview of mental health...
Read MoreTransformation
Manifesting Real Transformation Have you ever thought, I would like to be a little less crazy? Or, I would like to be a little...
Read MoreIntro to Parent Models
Images of Healthy Parent Models Today we begin a new series on images of healthy parent models. It’s no real stretch to suggest that...
Read MoreIntroduction to Dream Work
Personal and Reflective of the Collective Unconscious Freud and Jung both played a significant role in the deep psychological emphasis on the...
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