Emotional Wellness, Medication, Therapy
Meet the Medina Team
When you walk through those doors for the first time, you have made a huge step in your journey of self-discovery. Tricia Engen, MA, LPCC | Sonder Medina team member ...
Our Medina Location: 5 Fast Facts
Have you heard…? Our new Medina location is open and ready to welcome you! We’re excited to announce that Sonder is expanding, now offering a full range of behavioral health ...
Your Complete Gratitude Guide
‘Enough’ is a feast. Buddhist proverb Giving thanks. It might feel like second nature… or totally beyond reach. A daily joy… or a yearly obligation. Whatever your feelings about this ...
Caregiver Stress: 10 Signs to Watch For
There are only four kinds of people in the world: Those who have been caregivers. Those who are currently caregivers. Those who will be caregivers, and those who will need ...
Depression Treatment Options
We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options. David Suzuki Living with depression can keep you feeling stuck in the past, disconnected ...
World Mental Health Day: 10 Ways to Take Action
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy Last week marked World Mental Health Day. ...
Depression, Emotional Wellness
Your Emotional Intelligence Guide
People with well-developed emotional skills are also more likely to be content and effective in their lives. Daniel Goleman One widespread misconception about emotional wellness is the idea that our ...
Seasonal Affective Disorder: 5 Signs That May Surprise You
October is a symphony of permanence and change. Bonaro W. Overstreet The temperatures are dropping. Summer suddenly feels like a distant memory. You don’t feel sad. You don’t think you’re ...
Curious About Therapy at Sonder?
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. Carl Rogers Curious about exploring therapy at Sonder? It’s important to us ...
Emotional Wellness, Medication
TMS at Sonder
Depression does not have to be the darkness that goes on forever. Each day brings a new opportunity for growth. Annie Lindgren Curious about our newest offering, TMS at Sonder? ...
6 Signs You Might Be a Perfectionist
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be your best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or ...
Depression, Emotional Wellness
3 Myths About Suicide, Debunked
There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. John Green Suicide is surrounded by more stigma than any other emotional wellness topic. It’s also clouded by persistent ...
Emotional Wellness, Medication
5 Reasons to Choose Sonder Psychiatry
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it, and watch the whole transform. Rene Descartes Even on a good day, navigating the healthcare ...
Healthy Friendships: 6 Key Ingredients
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Seneca What’s considered “healthy” can vary dramatically among cultures, families, and individuals. As always, ...
Emotional Wellness, Medication
TMS: The Patient Experience
I started a new job right after treatments and decided to go back to school. I’ve had more of a positive attitude that’s been consistent since the end of treatment. ...
Back to School, Emotional Wellness, Fall, Seasonal
Your School-Year Survival Guide
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X Maybe you’ve already started anticipating the transition back to school. ...
Depression, Emotional Wellness
TMS Patient Experience: Frances
I remember driving home from TMS one day and quite joyfully singing along with the radio. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d done that. Frances, TMS patient We’re proud ...
Healthy Boundaries, Relationships
People-Pleasing: 5 Signs It Might Be Hurting You
When you say yes to others, make sure you aren’t saying no to yourself. Paulo Coehlo People-pleasing. It sounds so harmless. Even pleasant. After all, where’s the danger in prioritizing ...
The Summer Blues: 5 Signs You Might Be Experiencing It
…the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. Sylvia Plath The sun’s out. The birds are singing. The smell of BBQ ...
Emotional Wellness, Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries
Concerned About Your Phone Use?
Technology alone is not enough. Steve Jobs What if it were easier to moderate our own phone use in 2022? That was the subject of a recent analysis by The ...
Emotional Wellness, Seasonal, Summer
Your Summer Survival Guide
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is ...
Emotional Wellness, Healthy Boundaries
How to Support Someone You Care About
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens It’s one of the great risks we run when we allow ourselves to care about ...
5 Black-Owned Wellness Businesses to Support
Today marks the 157th anniversary of Juneteenth. Now a federal holiday, Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of African Americans. And while anti-racism is a lifelong commitment to ongoing work in our ...
Emotional Wellness, Medication, Self-Care
Medication Re-Evaluation? 3 Times to Consider It
Change can be painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. Mandy Hale An important part of determining if medication might be right for you ...
Emotional Wellness, Seasonal, Summer
5 Ways Anyone Can Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. Mahatma Gandhi In the midst of grief and healing, there’s a celebration underway. ...
Abuse and Trauma, Current Events, Grief & Loss
When Tragedy Occurs: 4 Emotional Wellness Reminders
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. John F. Kennedy When tragedy occurs, many issues immediately occupy ...
Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries, Seasonal
Your Holiday Weekend Survival Guide
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffet For many of us, this weekend kicks off a cherished hallmark of the ...
Emotional Wellness, Mindfulness, Stress Management
5 Emotional Wellness Apps (2022)
It’s not about faith in technology. It’s faith in people. Steve Jobs There’s never been a greater need for emotional wellness support. And thanks to increased demand from the public, ...
3 Steps to Managing Conflict
Conflict is an opportunity to learn to love our partner better over time. Julie Gottman You’re navigating new challenges together each day. On top of the demands and pressures that ...
Holidays, Relationships, Seasonal, Spring
5 Things You Might Experience this Mother’s Day
What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me. Janet Mock This coming weekend, you might ...
Sadness vs. Depression: What’s the Difference?
Sad hurts, but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different. J.K. Rowling Ask just about anyone what depression means to them, and ...
5 Myths about Emotions
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change. Gretchen Rubin Ah, emotions. ...
Emotional Wellness, Habits & Goals
Your Simple Guide to Habit Change
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so ...
Habits & Goals, Seasonal, Spring
Spring Cleaning for Your Emotional Wellness
The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don’t. Marie Kondo Spring is in the air. And for many of us, ...
Date Night: An Overlooked Relationship Essential
If you’re too busy for date night, you’re too busy. John & Julie Gottman Date night. Does it have a priority place in your calendar? Or is it a once-in-a-blue-moon ...
Anxiety, Depression, Mindfulness
10 Thoughts That Are Holding You Back
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Eckhart Tolle Ever had a thought that you ...
Emotional Wellness, Seasonal, Spring, Winter
5 Tips to Navigating the Winter-Spring Transition
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Hal Borland Spring Break’s on the horizon… and then it’s over. There’s snow on the ground… and then there’s not. (And ...
Current Events, Emotional Wellness, Habits & Goals
Doomscrolling: 3 Tips to Help You Curb the Habit
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. Roy T. Bennett It’s there in the dark as you squint into the blue ...
Shifting to Spring: 5 Things You May Be Feeling
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? Jack Kornfield Year after year, Spring tends to awaken ...
Grief & Loss, Stress Management
When Good News Causes Stress
Stress doesn’t discriminate but it is subjective… what causes stress for one individual may not be the case for another. Jaime Carlo-Casellas Stress. We all experience it. And we’re learning ...
New to Group Therapy? 5 Tips for Beginners
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap. Ani DiFranco “Group therapy” means something different to each of us. For ...
5 Fast Facts About Grief
You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler It’s a ...
Emotional Wellness, Grief & Loss
5 Grief Myths that Might Surprise You
Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human. Sarah Dessen Grief. It’s one of our most universal human experiences. And one of our least understood. As a society, we ...
February Reading List: Our Top Black History Month Posts
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. Martin Luther King, Jr. Over the years, we’ve shared Black History Month posts to help ...
Emotional Wellness, Relationships
3 Keys to Changing Your Sleep Habits in 2022
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep. Matthew Walker Recently, the Star Tribune published an article highlighting the link between alcohol and sleep. For some ...
Habits & Goals, Mindfulness, Seasonal, Winter
25 Mindfulness Ideas to Try This Year
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with ...
Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries, Holidays, Seasonal, Winter
10 Things to Let Go of in the New Year
What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring into the new year. Vern McLellan As 2021 draws to a close, our thoughts ...
Depression, Emotional Wellness
TMS Patient Experience: Rebekah
It’s completely worth the commitment in the end, I can promise you that. Rebekah, TMS patient We’re proud of the technology, team, and process we offer our patients seeking Transcranial ...
Emotional Wellness, Medication
Meet the Med Providers: Alisa
I’m fascinated by the body’s relation to the human experience, and what can be done to make each individual’s experience the best it can be. Alisa Sonder’s growing! And, in ...
10 Ways to Mentally Prepare for the Week Ahead
Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger and living a more fulfilling, happier, and healthier life. Germany Kent With the changing weather, ...