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.
Warning Signs of Mental Illnesses
How do you know if you’re suffering from symptoms of mental illnesses and if it’s time to seek help? It’s important that we educate ourselves on the common warning signs and symptoms of mental illnesses so we can understand our own mental wellbeing and our loved ones as well.
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.
Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
July is the National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month and this year we’re bringing awareness to the unique struggles that racial and ethnic minorities experience.
Q&A With Christina Hagemeier
Introducing our wonderful new clinician, Christina Hagemeier! We are so excited to welcome her to the Sage House team.
PTSD Awareness Day
National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day is on June 27th and this year we’re discussing the silent disorder.
Talking to Your Teen About Sexuality and Gender
June is Pride Month and this week we’re bringing you a very special top: how to talk to your teens about sexuality and gender.
Making Mental Health a Priority During Pride Month
June 1st marks the start of pride month, and this year we’re shining a light on how mental health issues disproportionately affect children and adults in the LGBTQIA* community.
Q&A with Mary Stewart
Perinatal essentially means the 'time around birth.' We use it to describe a period of time that starts at conception and lasts through the first year after giving birth.
National Children’s Mental Health Day
It’s easy to identify a child’s physical necessities, like food, water, clothing and housing. What’s more challenging for parents, though, is identifying their mental needs
World Maternal Mental Health Day
May 7th is World Maternal Mental Health Day, and this year we’re bringing attention to the importance of mental health concerns for mothers and families.
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.
The Effects of Stress on Children’s Mental Health
Too much stress has a negative effect on everybody, children more so than others. An excessive toxic amount of stress can impact a child’s development and take a toll on their health.
Autism Awareness Month: A Guide to Parenting
It’s normal for parents to worry about their child’s future, especially parents to a child with autism. April is Autism Awareness Month, so let’s work to increase acceptance and destigmatize autism.
How Cesarean Births Affect Mothers
Whether it is determined by doctors or by choice, cesarean births can present complicated feelings for Mother’s. When done not by choice but necessity, some mother’s report feelings of disappointment or shame.
Q&A with Alanna Betts
Eating disorders can be so hidden by diet culture and health/wellness culture in our society that is often hard to figure out if someone has fallen into the latest –albeit often unhealthy—diet craze or if they have developed a full blown eating disorder.
Endometriosis and the Effect of Chronic Health Conditions on Mental Health
March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. Endometriosis is a condition that affects women, where endometrial tissue grows outside of the uterus.