Sage House Blog
Find insightful articles, practical tips, and expert advice to help your family thrive. Topics include child and family therapy, art therapy, stress management, sleep improvement, and more.
How to Build a Good Mental Health Routine
It’s easy to get overwhelmed with your everyday life. Whether you’re paying bills, grocery shopping, working, cleaning your home, shopping, exercising, getting enough sleep, eating well, or parenting, it is completely normal to become discouraged.
PTSD Awareness Day
National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day is on June 27th and this year we’re discussing the silent disorder.
Q&A with Lindsay Carroll
What is the difference between sexual violence, sexual assault, rape, and sexual harassment?
The Effects of Stress on Adult’s Mental Health
In our second installment of how stress affects us, we will be looking at the effects of stress on adult’s mental health.
Sleep and Mental Health
With National Sleep Awareness Week approaching, it’s important to highlight how sleep impacts our mental and physical health. Your quality of sleep is directly connected to your personal health.
The Psychology of New Year’s Resolutions And Why They Don’t Last
Does the New Year give you an excuse to start a list of things you want to improve about yourself or your routine? Do you vow to start eating healthier, work out more often or read more books?
Attachment Styles: How are they formed?
The way you navigate relationships and attachments in adulthood is directly related to how you are attached to others in your childhood. Attachment patterns are generational…
The Science Behind Self-Sabotage
Self-sabotage is defined as active or passive behaviors and beliefs that directly prevent us from achieving our goals. It is often a frustrating cycle that lowers self-confidence…
Ways To Overcome and Cope with Stress
If you’re feeling high levels of stress, you’re not alone. We all cope with stress. We have been living through a pandemic, economic crisis, and tumultuous political landscape…
Helping Teens Cultivate Emotional Intelligence
How can you teach your teen to recognize and express their feelings in healthy and appropriate ways? Read on for more information about helping teens cultivate emotional intelligence…
5 Ways to Stop Making Decisions Out of Fear
Do you ever feel like you make decisions out of fear? Read on for more info about fear-based decisions and ways to stop making decisions out of fear…
How to Find Hope After a Pandemic
As COVID-19 vaccinations increase and various restrictions are lifted in America, it feels like the pandemic may be winding down. However, the past 16 months have been challenging to say the least. How do we find hope after a pandemic? Read on as we look forward to the future together.
Effects of the Pandemic on Mental Health
The past year has been incredibly difficult for many people. Read on for various mental health challenges that have arisen and what kind of support is available to address these issues.
5 Ways to Cultivate Happiness
How can you cultivate happiness amidst all of these challenges? How can you prioritize you and your family’s wellbeing and quality of life? Read on for five ways to cultivate happiness, starting today.
Increased Screen Time During the Pandemic
Since the start of the pandemic, many children have learned virtually for some amount of time, used electronic devices to keep connected to friends and family, and had many non-screen related activities such as visiting friends severely limited. Read on for more about kids’ increased screen time during the pandemic and how to address this change.
Eating disorders: types, causes, and getting help
Eating disorders can be serious mental health challenges that require medical and psychological experts and interventions. Read on for more information on different types of eating disorders and what may cause them.
5 Habits that Enhance Well-being
There are many aspects of today’s world that can undermine your well-being: high-stress levels, excessive busyness, fewer social interactions, and so on. And not to mention a global pandemic that is happening all around us! Your well-being and quality of life are essential to your happiness and health. Self-care is difficult in today’s busy world, but forming habits that automatically enhance your well-being will make self-care a bit easier. Read on for ideas about 5 habits that enhance well-being. And for more on how to make self-care a habit this year, check out a recent blog of ours.
How to Make Self-Care a Habit This Year
As 2020 comes to an end, you may be considering the tradition of setting a New Year’s resolution. Read on for tips on how to lower your stress in 2021 by making self-care a habit this year.