Blog
Welcome to our blog! Here you’ll find thoughtful articles, tools, and insights to support your mental health and personal growth. Whether you’re in therapy or just exploring ways to care for yourself, our posts are here to help you feel informed, empowered, and connected.
25 Journaling Prompts for Personal Growth and Reconnecting With Yourself
Explore 25 powerful journaling prompts designed to help you grow, reflect, and reconnect with yourself — on your own or alongside therapy support.
Deep Breathing Exercises for Better Mental Health
Discover simple deep breathing exercises to reduce stress, calm anxiety, and improve your mental health.
How to Know When It’s Time to Start Therapy
Feeling emotionally overwhelmed, stuck in patterns, or disconnected from yourself? Learn the signs that it may be time to seek therapy and get support.
Feeling Overwhelmed? Maybe It’s Not About Time—It’s About Priorities
You're not overwhelmed because you have too much to do—you're overwhelmed because you haven’t decided what truly matters. Learn how therapy at Growth Era Counseling & Wellness can help you manage time, reduce stress, and live with clarity.
The Weight of Inherited Pain: Understanding and Healing Generational Trauma
Generational trauma can silently shape your emotions, relationships, and sense of self. Learn how to recognize inherited pain and begin your healing journey with Growth Era Counseling and Wellness.
Meaningful Ways to ‘Do the Work’ Outside of Therapy
Therapy is powerful, but personal growth continues between sessions. Explore simple ways to support your healing journey outside of therapy through reflection, rest, and intentional practices.
FAQ: Bipolar I vs. Bipolar II — What’s the Difference?
Confused about the difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II? Learn the key distinctions and how Growth Era Counseling & Wellness offers therapy support for both.
The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health
Social media affects more than your screen time — it impacts your mood, self-worth, and focus. Learn how to build healthier digital habits with therapy support.
Am I Healing? Understanding the Signs of Effective Trauma Therapy
Not sure if trauma therapy is helping? Discover 7 signs that your healing is on track, even if it doesn’t feel like it yet.
We Don’t All Have the Same 24 Hours: A Mental Health Perspective
From burnout to invisible struggles, not everyone has equal capacity each day. This blog challenges the “same 24 hours” myth and explores the mental health realities behind hustle culture.
Sleep and Mental Health: Why Therapy Helps When Rest Feels Impossible
Struggling to sleep despite doing “everything right”? Learn how mental health affects sleep and how therapy can help you restore rest with better sleep hygiene and emotional healing.
Back-to-School Stress Is Real: How Parents Can Cope with the Emotional Load
Back-to-school season can bring stress, grief, and anxiety for parents—not just kids. Learn how therapy at Growth Era Counseling & Wellness can support your mental health during this emotional transition.
Investing in Yourself Through Therapy and Meaningful Self-Care
Feeling overwhelmed or burned out? Discover how therapy and personalized self-care can help you refill your cup and prioritize your well-being.
How to Re-Write Negative Beliefs and Heal from Self-Doubt
Negative core beliefs can keep you stuck in cycles of shame and self-doubt. Learn how to identify, challenge, and re-write them with support from Growth Era Counseling & Wellness.
Feeling Stuck and Stressed? Here’s How to Handle Frustration
Feeling constantly on edge or overwhelmed? Learn therapist-approved strategies to manage frustration and explore how therapy at Growth Era Counseling & Wellness can help.
Do the Seasons Affect Your Mental Health? How to Care for Yourself as Summer Ends
Feeling off as summer fades? Seasonal changes—especially from summer to fall—can affect your mental health. Learn why it happens and how therapy at Growth Era Counseling & Wellness can support you through it.
How to Find the Right Therapist Near You: What to Look For and Why It Matters
Searching “therapists near me”? Learn how to find a therapist who truly fits your needs, and why the right therapeutic connection can make all the difference.
Vulnerability Is Courage: How Therapy Helps You Embrace Emotional Honesty
Vulnerability isn’t weakness—it’s emotional courage. Learn how therapy helps you feel safe enough to show up as your full, authentic self.
5 Common Mental Health Misconceptions and the Truth Behind Them
Think therapy is only for crisis? Believe mental health struggles mean weakness? Discover the truth behind common myths — and why support matters.
How Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Helps You Heal From Within
Discover how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps you understand and heal the parts of you that carry pain, fear, or self-protection.