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Only You Need to Give Yourself Permission to Rest and Recharge. Here’s 20 Ways I Did It!

Burn-out, Highly Sensitive Person, Uncategorized / By Lisa Franklin

Right after Thanksgiving last year, I noticed that I was completely unmotivated to do anything on the weekends. This is unusual for me, as I typically have a long to do list for the weekend: writing the blog and social media posts, spending time with friends and family, cleaning up the house, catching up on …

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Personal Burnout: Signs and Quick Fixes

Burn-out, Resources, Uncategorized / By Lisa Franklin

I had been working as a social worker for about 4 years when I really started feeling the effects of burnout. I wasn’t sleeping well at night and hadn’t been for several years, I was working a full work week in four days instead of 5 and I was trying to balance the demands of …

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How Burn Out is Affecting All of Us and Here’s What You Need to Know

Burn-out, Resources, Uncategorized / By Lisa Franklin

I remember this time last year I was traveling home from vacation and we had to go through customs. I thought it was strange when we dropped off our bags for our flight, and the woman helping us asked us if we had been to China, and if we had a fever or coughing over …

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3 Ways your Mental Health is Sabotaging Your Exercise and How to Stop It

Anxiety, Burn-out, Depression, Individuals, Resources, Uncategorized / By Lisa Franklin

In 2008 my Dad had a heart attack and had to have bypass surgery. He lived out of state at the time and soon after, my siblings and insisted they move back to Indiana so we could be close if something ever happened again. After they moved, my Dad and I began working out together …

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3 Ways your Mental Health is Sabotaging Your Weight Loss and What to Do About It

Anxiety, Burn-out, Depression, Individuals, Resources, Uncategorized / By Lisa Franklin

If you’re like me, Cornocation, or the stay-at-home order, was not kind to me and I gained some weight! I couldn’t go to the gym, someone else was going to the store for me so it made it a little difficult to choose things I wanted to eat, and I cared less about what I …

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Taking Care of Your Own Mental Health

Anxiety, Burn-out, Depression, Highly Sensitive Person, Individuals, Resources, Uncategorized / By Lisa Franklin

On this week’s post, we’re taking a little break from the highly sensitive child posts because as a parent, taking care of your own mental health is so important. This past week I shared a few of my favorite things that help me with my own mental health. Here are the highlights in case you …

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I Need Some Sleep! – Reality of a Single Parent

Leave a Comment / Anxiety, Burn-out, Children/Adolescents, Individuals, Uncategorized / By Peace Family Counseling

A Recent study by the CDC revealed that approximately 44% of the mothers that are single and have a child younger than 18 years old are sleeping less than 7 hours every night.