Lavender Blog: Healing Starts Here
Our blog is a platform where we can share heartfelt stories, provide actionable advice, and support your personal development through empathy and understanding.
Work Worries Weighing You Down? Try These Mental Health Boosters
Job insecurity can bring stress and anxiety when you’re unsure of what’s next. But even in tough times, there are ways to take care of yourself and feel a little more at ease.
Advocating for Mental Health as a Parent and Provider
Nancy Pletcher, MSN, PMHNP-BC, shares how her journey as a parent deepened her understanding of the importance of advocacy and empathy in mental health care.
Living with Chronic Illness: How to Keep a Healthy Mind and Spirit
Living with a chronic illness can be tough, but it’s still possible to keep your mind and spirit strong. By being kind to yourself and finding ways to adjust, you can live a life full of meaning and joy.
3 Surprising Things You May Not Know About Journaling
Discover how journaling can support your growth, creativity, and self-awareness. Learn how to make it a meaningful and adaptable tool in your daily life.
Loved Beyond Measure: Bearing Loss With Love and Empathy
A story that highlights an expecting mother's journey as she finds out about her twin pregnancy. This journey captures the mother's experiences of joy, excitement, anxiety, and grief following loss of one twin.
Navigating Grief: Insights from a Psychiatric Nurse Leader
Everyone deals with grief differently. Brighid Gannon, a psychiatric nurse practitioner and Lavender co-founder, provides personal insights on how to navigate grief by emphasizing self-compassion.
Patient Parenting, an Oxymoron?
Pritma Dhillon-Chattha addresses the challenges of practicing patience as a parent to young children and offers strategies to strengthen the parent-child relationship.
Balancing Two Full-Time Roles: Working and Parenting
Working parents struggle to find a balance between their family and work life. This blog post offers insights and practical tips to help working parents navigate their personal and professional responsibilities using empathy and understanding.
The Mental Load of Motherhood
The emotional well-being of a mother is often overlooked. We expand on the pressures mothers face as they try to tackle the household, professional, and societal responsibilities that come with motherhood.
Coping With Infertility During the Holidays
Infertility adds to the strain of an already overwhelming holiday season. Discover effective strategies that you can use to cope with infertility during this time.