The Mental Health Coach | Coping Skills, Boundaries, Grief, Trauma, Marriage Counseling

For those that celebrate, Christmas is now over and the new year is right around the corner. And with a new year comes ideas about what we want our year to look like. For many of us, it means setting goals, intentions, and resolutions. A 2022 poll by YouGov found that 37% of Americans indicated they had a goal or resolution they wanted to achieve the following year. A Forbes survey showed that the...

The holidays can be a super difficult time for folks who are grieving. Emotions tend to be amplified during the holiday anyway, and grief in particular can be exacerbated because of memories and feelings of loss or aloneness that might come up. Grief during this season can certainly be in regard to bereavement (grieving the death of a loved one), or it also might be following a divorce or breakup,...

In the last two weeks, I have talked with so many friends and clients about the holidays and what it brings up for them. While we are sold the idea of the magic of the season, most of the folks I talked to shared hard stories of everything from feeling stressed with all of the social and family engagements and pressure to feeling lonely and sad about family relationships that are severed because o...

Welcome to Between the Two of Us, a Mental Health podcast. Grab a cup of coffee or slide on your tennis shoes for a walk while we explore what it means to be human and get real about the beauty and challenges of life. I want to destigmatize mental health and make therapeutic concepts and neuroscience more accessible. Hi, I am your host, Jen Alley. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, a wife, an...