Mental Hygiene: Nourishing Your Mind As You Nourish Your Body
In western culture, we often prioritize physical health while neglecting an equally vital aspect of our well-being: mental hygiene. Just as we practice personal hygiene to keep our bodies healthy, we must also engage in habits that nurture our mental health. For many, it may prove to be beneficial if they frequent mental health providers […]
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Nutrition: Back to Basics
Nutrition: Back to Basics The definition of nutrition is “the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth”, yet it is not uncommon to lose or warp some of the most foundational aspects of nutrition in the name of “health”. Often, nutrition advice we receive involves restricting certain foods or food […]
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Busting Diet Culture Myths
Busting Diet Culture Myths – Part 1 Diet culture is strong, prevalent, and thrives on the principle of scaring us into following specific rules or buying specific products in order to lose weight. Today, we’re going to bust some common diet culture myths, so you are better able to challenge disordered eating thoughts. Myth #1: […]
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Endurance in The Face of Suffering
Endurance in The Face of Suffering “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you […]
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Managing Stress and Food
Managing Stress and Food: How the Two Correlate Nutrition and stress are a two-way street and something many of us struggle with at times. Stress can either shut down a person’s appetite by the nervous system increasing epinephrine, a hormone that signals the body’s fight or flight response, that can cause a person to have […]
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Navigating Adolescence: A Guide to Mental Health
Navigating Adolescence: A Guide to Mental Health Talking about mental health has been a taboo issue for years, but this is starting to change. We hear a lot more about mental health and the stigma surrounding it. Many people have struggled with their mental health for years without understanding what was happening. Adolescents, in particular, […]
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Unleashing Healing: The Therapeutic Power of Dogs in Counseling
Unleashing Healing: The Therapeutic Power of Dogs in Counseling Often beginning therapy can be an incredibly overwhelming experience for people. Individuals are consumed with anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms, unsure of how to understand themselves; let alone the apprehension of entrusting a random stranger with the intricate pieces of one’s life. It has been found that […]
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Body Image and Self-Worth
Body Image and Self-Worth: Take Charge of How You See Yourself! Statistics about how people view their bodies are heartbreaking! According to the NOW Foundation (National Organization for Women Foundation), “53% of American girls are ‘unhappy with their bodies.’ This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen.” Body dissatisfaction is not only observed […]
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What Does God Have to Do With Recovery?
It’s a huge question, right? Our alumni group has gotten together and come up with answers based on our own experience through treatment and recovery. Most of us in the group have been to multiple treatment facilities, with Manna being our last. Manna is the only treatment facility that we’ve been to that has connected […]
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