Maintaining Friendships in a Pandemic
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While it is important to follow the guidelines for Covid-19, it is also important to keep relationships with your friends and family. Allow this pandemic to show you that physical closeness and face-to-face interactions aren’t the only thing keeping you and your friends connected.
Validation: One Skill That Can Make all the Difference
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Validation is communicating understanding of another person’s emotions, thoughts and perspective in a given situation. Using this skill leads us to feeling heard and understood.
Communication In The Time of Coronavirus
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This year has been trying in more ways than one, but many can agree that communication with long-distance loved ones has been a challenge.
4 Ways to Improve Virtual Social Connection
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Virtual connection may be all we have for now with certain loved ones. Let’s make the best of it! Nourish Your Mind’s Founder, Jessica Sullivan, shares 4 ideas to improve your virtual connection.
DBT Skills Groups Starting Soon!!!
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Learn Coping Skills while Connecting with Others! Young Adult & Adolescent DBT Groups starting in April! Sign up Today!