Have you ever wondered why we are the way we are or why we react the way we do to certain situations? Why you feel ready to book a one-way ticket halfway across the world when it feels like there is a threat to your relationship, you suddenly freeze when you hear your parents yelling in the next room, or notice yourself having an abreaction to a topic that reminds you of something that happened to you when you were a child? If you’re reading this, I’m guessing you have asked yourself something similar?!

You might be asking yourself, what does music have to do with mental health and how are playlists involved? At least I hope you’re asking these questions because music and mental health are very important separately. Music allows us to feel connected to others regardless of age, religion, or language. We can listen to a song and understand the emotion that it is trying to convey.

Ten months ago, my mother got suddenly, terminally ill and passed away six days later. Thankfully we were all with her in the hospital. Four months later, my uncle died by suicide in Mexico. Traveling to Mexico to get my uncle’s affairs in order and his body released for burial gave me concrete tasks and little time to grieve. After mom’s death, my brother began the arduous work of relinquishing her belongings; together with the rest of our family, we mourned our deep loss.

Case management is an incredibly beneficial service that connects clients to resources, valuable services, and other providers. You collaborate with passionate and resourceful humans who dive into your individual situation to determine how they can best support you.

We take medication when we have a virus, disease, pain, and/or chronic physical illness, in which most of the time we don’t think twice about taking. When it comes to medication for mental health, that is often stigmatized by us, as individuals, and the community around us. Psychotropic medication can typically fall under the following types: Anti-anxiety, anti-depressant, mood stabilizer, and antipsychotics.

May is mental health awareness month, and this year’s campaign is “Take a Moment.” The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) promotes mental health year round; however during this green ribbon recognition month, they are promoting “Take a Moment.”

Are you struggling to regulate your emotions? Would you like to learn how to respond to difficult situations more effectively? If you’re human, I bet you answered yes to one or both of these questions! However, sometimes emotions can be experienced too quickly, too frequently, and too intensely. If this is your experience, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) can help!

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is definitely a name for a therapy that seems intimidating, confusing, and what are all of these words anyways? Sometimes, even remembering the order of the acronym is difficult. EDMR, EMRD, EDM (wait, that’s a music genre?).

Summer is coming. That means there will be graduation parties, baby showers, bridal showers, weddings, summer sports, kids that don’t have school, Memorial Day events, Fourth of July events and oh my gosh, vacations! How could I forget vacations? Summer for most people and families means chaos. As human beings, we are usually surrounded by chaos. Pick a season and there’s some sort of chaos going on. Chaos impacts relationships in a huge way that often goes unnoticed and not talked about.

In response to the unprecedented need for counseling professionals and the impact on the community of East Palestine since the train derailment, Insight Clinical Counseling and Wellness, LLC has partnered with Youngstown State University to launch the Insightful Empowerment Scholarship Program of East Palestine.