Dr. Rose Bricker Unhelpful thinking styles (also known as distorted thinking) can be toxic for our relationships. These thinking styles can lead to stress, frustration, irritability, and conflict. Unhelpful thinking patterns, such as jumping to conclusions, blaming or shaming, overgeneralizing, black and white thinking, catastrophizing, labeling, personalization, and using “should” statements, have the potential to…
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April 2024, Features
2 Your Health: How to Have Healthy Relationships with Our Adult Children and Siblings
Dr. Rose Bricker Just because our children and siblings are now adults, doesn’t mean that our relationships with them are without challenges. The old pattern of communication is often continued throughout our lives, causing feelings of hurt, frustration, anxiety, and even anger. It’s not until we learn new, healthy communication skills that the relationships can…
Features, March 2024
2 Your Health: Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Grief
Dr. Rose Bricker What is anxiety? Anxiety is a mood disorder that involves excessive worrying, nervousness, and fear. Depression is characterized by feelings of sadness, loss of interest, and/or anger that interferes with our everyday life. Trauma can be both physical and psychological. In childhood and adulthood, we have experiences that can leave us feeling…
Features, February 2024
2 Your Health: Toxic People: How They Affect Our Relationships
Dr. Rose Bricker What exactly defines a “toxic person”? Do you get a gut feeling that things aren’t right when you engage with certain people? Do you leave the situation or encounter with feelings of confusion, or anger, or that you are being used, manipulated, belittled, and hurt? This type of interaction never feels good!…
Features, January 2024
2 Your Health: It’s a New Year! A New Opportunity to Make this Year a Great Year!
Dr. Rose Bricker We all have the ability to improve our thought patterns, behaviors, insights, skills, and perspectives. When we work on these issues, we can find our peace, joy, and contentment. Wouldn’t that make it a great year?! Changing your thinking from negative to positive, being grateful, having healthy coping skills, communicating in a…
Features, November 2023
2 Your Health: Self-care, Stress, and the Holidays
Rose Bricker, DBH The holiday season is here! That usually means that our stress levels go up. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the new year continue to be a very busy and often the most stressful time of the year. Traveling, buying gifts, and preparing for social events may consume us. It is easy to feel tired and…
Features, September 2023
2 Your Health: Relationship Stress: How Therapy Can Help
Dr. Rose Bricker Anger and conflict within relationships can be challenging. When we have difficulty expressing our feelings, boundaries, and desires to others, it often creates stress that we are not prepared to manage. Sometimes, anger is used to express that stress. But when anger is expressed in destructive ways, such as yelling, screaming, using…
Features, July 2023
2 Your Health: Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month—How Massage Can Help
Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist, #MT-24997 Brain health is becoming more and more prevalent. As we age, we start to notice small changes in our memory, such as brain fog, and possibly even more-severe memory issues. There are many things we can do to help improve brain health. Nutrition, exercise, supplements, puzzles, and massage are…
Features, June 2023
2 Your Health June 2023
2 Your Health: Alzheimer’s and Brain Health—How Therapy and Coaching Can Help Dr. Rose Bricker, Blue Lemon Health & Wellness If you are experiencing symptoms of Alzheimer’s, dementia, and poor brain health, you are not alone. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, in 2023, 6.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s. Eleven million Americans provide unpaid care…
Features, February 2023
2 Your Health: Transform Wellness—Body Awareness and Massage
Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist #MT-24997 Body awareness. It is so important to know when there is something going on with your body. Healthline.com defines body awareness as, “how conscious and connected you are to your own body. It’s also known as kinesthesia, or the awareness of the position and movement of body parts in relation…