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.

  • Anxiety can manifest in different ways and remove the joy from activities you once loved. Use these five techniques to rediscover happiness, and along the way, learn a skill or two about self-care practices.

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    By The Lavender Team

    |   4 min read

  • Courtney Paton shares her personal experience battling postpartum depression, describing how she managed feelings of isolation and anxiety, and the factors that led her to ultimately seek professional help.

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    By Courtney Paton, MSN, PMHNP-BC

    |   5 min read

  • 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.

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    By Brighid Gannon, DNP, PMHNP-BC

    |   3 min read

  • Pritma Dhillon-Chattha addresses the challenges of practicing patience as a parent to young children and offers strategies to strengthen the parent-child relationship.

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    By Pritma Dhillon-Chattha, DNP, MHA, RN

    |   2 min read

  • Using ADHD as an example, we explain the complexities involved with self-diagnosis.

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    By Nancy Pletcher, MSN, PMHNP-BC

    |   5 min read

  • 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.

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    By The Lavender Team

    |   4 min read