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It’s time to reset: How therapy helps restlessness
mental health, managing stress, restlessness, creating healthy boundaries, online therapy Dr. Rachel mental health, managing stress, restlessness, creating healthy boundaries, online therapy Dr. Rachel

It’s time to reset: How therapy helps restlessness

Welcome to the “It’s time to RESET,” blog series, where I unpack the RESET acronym to talk about when it's time for you or someone you love to see a therapist. For this blog, I will dive into how it feels to be Restless and show how therapy can help. You know that guy at the circus twirling plates above his head as they delicately balance on the end of a stick? Being restless feels something like that. Most things in life feel like one of those plates, constantly spinning, and if you don’t focus on it, it will fall and break on the ground. But there isn’t just one plate. There are several. 

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It’s Time to RESET: Answering, “How do I know if I need therapy?”
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It’s Time to RESET: Answering, “How do I know if I need therapy?”

Few people feel like it’s time to see a therapist and get help. Often, we think, “I’m not suffering enough to see a therapist.” We feel like if we just had our shit together, we could handle whatever is causing us pain, so we should try to help ourselves first. But that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

How do you know if you need therapy?

It can be hard to identify if you or someone you care about needs to find a therapist when you don’t know what to look for. I use this handy acronym to identify if someone needs to start therapy to make it easier.

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Five Ways to Manage Your Stress
mental health, creating healthy boundaries, boundaries, managing stress Dr. Rachel mental health, creating healthy boundaries, boundaries, managing stress Dr. Rachel

Five Ways to Manage Your Stress

Stress affects us on a deeper level than we often recognize. We feel it in our bodies, tightening our muscles and draining our energy. It comes out in our relationships with us accidentally snapping at loved ones and even hurts our relationship with ourselves.

The key to managing stress is making life changes that help us have a better mindset. So here are five practical, ‘wow, I can actually do these things’ kinds of steps you can take to feel less stressed.

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Breaking Up with Burnout: How to Stick to New Year’s Resolutions
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Breaking Up with Burnout: How to Stick to New Year’s Resolutions

The idea behind New Year’s resolutions is so appealing: It’s the perfect time to make big life changes! What better time to change our bad habits to healthier ones than at the beginning of the year, right?

But, making lofty resolutions that end up with a shorter shelf life than leftover Christmas cookies is a cliché for a reason: we tend to burnout before February rolls around.

Why do we drop our New Year’s resolutions so fast? Our bodies and brains hate change….

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