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.
How to Set Healthy Boundaries (Even With the People You Love)
Setting healthy boundaries, even with the people you love, can help protect your mental, emotional, and physical well-being. But setting boundaries can feel uncomfortable or awkward at first, especially when you’re creating boundaries with the people you love. Use our examples to learn how you can communicate your boundaries clearly and effectively.
How to Form Good Sleep Habits Living a Student Lifestyle
It's easy to sacrifice sleep when you're a student, but did you know that it can negatively impact your academic performance? We've listed some tips to help you develop a bedtime routine so you can sleep better and wake up feeling refreshed.
Beyond Your Prescription: Responsible Medication Management at Lavender
Medication management is an important aspect of mental health care. At Lavender, we take the time to discuss the risks, benefits, and alternatives to ensure clients feel confident about their treatment plans. Learn about how we're prioritizing effective and safe treatment for our clients.
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.
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.