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.
Holidays & Heartaches: 4 Tips for Coping This Season
Navigating through the holiday season can be challenging, especially for those coping with loss, loneliness, or complicated family relationships. Here are some practical tips to help you regain joy during the holidays.
Depression: Eight Ways to Overcome the Cycle
Depression affects many people, and overcoming it involves a multifaceted approach.
Five Ways to Rediscover Joy - and You
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.
Embracing the Light: Battle with Postpartum Depression
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.
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.
Can I Diagnose Myself?
Using ADHD as an example, we explain the complexities involved with self-diagnosis.
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.
How to Get the Most Out of Therapy
We provide five strategies to enhance the effectiveness of your therapy sessions so you can feel fully supported in your journey to mental wellness.
Let’s Talk About Summertime Sadness
You've heard of the winter blues, but it's worth noting that summertime sadness also exists. In this post, we provide simple tips to help you cope with this seasonal occurrence.
Navigating Pandemic Fatigue, the Holidays, and Your Mental Wellness: Thanksgiving Edition
As the holiday season approaches, we've compiled a list of guidelines you can use to prevent pandemic fatigue and protect your mental health.