5 (Free) Physical Activity Resources for At-Home Movement
physical activity Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn As some parts of our lives begin a gradual transition to normalcy whatever ...
Contentment: Turn What You Have Into Enough
No one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace… we have to give it away. Kristin Armstrong As we enter another week of #StayHomeMN, you might notice an antsy sort of ...
5 (Free) Arts Resources to Nurture Your Emotional Wellness from Home
resources Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp How’s it going over there? Feeling the Zoom fatigue? Craving some creative stimulation outside the walls ...
3 Steps to Managing Conflict
managing conflict Conflict is an opportunity to learn to love our partner better over time. Julie Gottman You’re in closer quarters than you’ve ever been before. Under pressures you’ve never ...
Anxiety in Disguise: 5 Signs that Might Surprise You
anxiety in disguise I was… mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine…’ Tina Fey Chances are, ...
Who Can Benefit from Teletherapy?
benefit from teletherapy Connection: The energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgement; and when they derive sustenance ...
Parenting Under Stress: 5 Reminders to Help You Through
parenting under stress When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always ...
New to Teletherapy? 5 Tips to Make the Most of It
teletherapy The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability. Charles Darwin Amid the widespread call for increased social distancing, many providers are moving their services ...
Coping with Coronavirus Stress: 5 Emotional Wellness Tips
coronavirus Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves. Brian Tracy Between the virus itself and the unique challenges and difficult decisions it presents, ...
Want to Improve Your Sleep? 10 Factors to Consider
improve your sleep For the body, first—sleep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Edward Everett Hale With Daylight Saving Time, Friday the 13th, and a full moon all ...
5 Ways Sleep Benefits Your Emotional Wellness
sleep benefits Sleep is the best meditation. Dalai Lama You might say sleep is kind of like… broccoli. We know it’s good for us. We’re just not sure exactly why. ...
5 Sleep Myths That Are Robbing You of Rest
sleep myth Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Thomas Dekker Sleep. It’s one area of wellness that simply isn’t given the respect it deserves. ...
10 Ways to Mentally Prepare for the Week Ahead
Mentally Prepare for the Week Ahead Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Alexander Graham Bell Does a long weekend make it easier or more difficult to transition ...
5 Easy Ways to Share the Love
share the love Love is a behavior. Jill A. Murray Valentine’s Day is this week. Whether you’re a big fan or no fan at all, this much is true: Opportunities ...
Struggling to Get Your Needs Met? Try Nonviolent Communication
nonviolent communication Our attention is focused on classifying, analyzing, and determining levels of wrongness, rather than on what we and others need and are not getting. Marshall B. Rosenberg Communicating ...
Loneliness: What Yours Might Be Telling You
loneliness Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. Martha Beck Feeling a little lonely lately? You’re not alone. While this experience is sometimes confused with sadness ...
Emotional Wellness, Habits & Goals
Struggling with Procrastination? Try This.
prepare for the holidays Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination. Christina Scalise Procrastination. Sooner or later, we all experience it. But for some of us, ...
5 Ways to Change Your Relationship with Stuff
stuff Minimalism isn’t about removing the things you love. It’s about removing the things that distract you from the things you love. Joshua Becker It’s all around us. (Especially after ...
Habits & Goals, Mindfulness, Seasonal, Winter
Mindful Goal-Setting
mindful goal-setting The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. Melody Beattie As ...
5 Ways to Deepen Your Relationships This Season
deepen your relationships A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, and paying attention… April Mae Monterrosa Not all relationships are created equal. Even our most important relationships can vary widely: ...
Fall, Gratitude, Holidays, Mindfulness, Seasonal
How To Practice Gratitude When You’re Not Feeling Grateful
gratitude Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie As we look around this week, the signs of Thanksgiving are ...
Gratitude, Seasonal, Self-Care, Winter
Self-Compassion: 4 Ways to Start Practicing It Today
self-compassion If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. Jack Kornfield Self-love may seem an essential component of emotional wellness. After all, if we can’t love ourselves, how can ...
Emotional Wellness, Gratitude, Habits & Goals, Mindfulness
Perfectionism 101: 4 Creative Alternatives to Being “Perfect”
Last week, we shared some common signs of perfectionism. Maybe they got you wondering about your own relationship with “perfect”. Or about a friend or family member. But where do ...
Perfectionism 101: 6 Signs You Might Be a Perfectionist
{ 6 signs you might be a perfectionist } Perfectionism is not the same thing has striving to be your best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, ...
Perfectionism 101: 3 Perfectionism Myths
It’s not something you’re trying to do. Most of the time you’re not even aware of it. In fact, like the many others who struggle with perfectionism, it feels like ...
100 Weeks of the Sonder Blog: Our Top 5 Posts
You’ve read them each week. You’ve shared them with your friends and family. You’ve sent us your reactions. …and we’ve been listening! In celebration of 100 weeks of content on ...
Mindset: Why Yours Matters
The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows ...
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 ...
How to Apologize More Effectively
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. Lynn Johnston It’s one of those little inevitabilities of life: Sooner or later… You’ll have to apologize. ...
Emotional Wellness, Mindfulness, Stress Management
5 (More) Self Care Apps to Improve Your Emotional Wellness
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with ...
5 Ways to Help Kids Navigate Cell Phone Use
Kids and cell phone use. From mildly annoying to bordering on addiction… Their interactions with these devices give us plenty to wonder (and stress) about. Let’s look at how you ...
Back to School, Fall, Parenting, Seasonal
Back to School: 7 Simple Ways to Ease the Transition
{ Back-to-school transition } Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from. Jen Hatmaker The air is crisping up. The Halloween merchandise ...
Abuse and Trauma, Current Events, Grief & Loss
Should We Focus on Mental Health In the Wake of Violence?
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. John F. Kennedy No sooner do the shots ring out ...
5 Fast Facts About Anxiety
When you’re feeling anxious, remember that you’re still you. You are not your anxiety. Deanne Repich It’s one of the most common of all emotional wellness issues. It’s in the ...
Date Night: An Overlooked Relationship Resource?
Date night. Does it have a priority place in your calendar? Or is it a once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence? Leading relationship experts John Gottman, PhD, and Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD contend that ...
The Summer Blues: 5 Signs You Might Be Experiencing It
{ summer blues } …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. ...
8 Ways to Boost Emotional Wellness Outdoors
{ 8 Ways to Boost Emotional Wellness Outdoors } In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir Life can feel pretty complicated these days. ...
10 Emotional Wellness Tips for Graduating Seniors
We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: We have the power to imagine better. J. K. Rowling It’s ...
Summer Break: 9 Tips for Transitioning with Ease
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was ...
Video Games: Separating Fact from Myth
Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don’t. They should belong to the entire family. Shigeru ...
Mental Health Awareness Month: 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 May is Mental Health Awareness Month. A ...
Brené Brown: 5 Emotional Wellness Lessons from Her New Netflix Special
Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. Brené Brown If you’ve visited a bookstore at any point over the last decade, chances are good ...
How to Tell Someone You’re in Therapy
This post was inspired by a request from a reader! If there’s a particular topic or question you’d like us to cover on the blog, we’d love to hear from ...
Emotional Wellness, Mindfulness, Stress Management
There’s an (Emotional Wellness) App for That
New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It’s all about how people choose to use it. David Wong Technology is becoming so seamlessly integrated into our ...
4 Myths About Couples Counseling
Conflict is an opportunity to learn to love our partner better over time. Julie Gottman You’ve heard friends talk about it. Maybe you’ve thought about giving it a try. (Or ...
Parenting Adult Children: 5 Signs of a Healthy Relationship
A child needs to internalize a model of someone who has a life of her own. The parent whose life is centered around her children is influencing them to think ...
Boundaries in Parenting
Children raised with good boundaries learn that they are not only responsible for their lives, but also free to live their lives any way they choose, as long as they ...
Boundaries: Understanding this Emotional Wellness Buzzword
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others. Brené Brown It’s one of those terms that gets a lot of ...
Spring Break Ideas to Boost Emotional Wellness
Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring. Lilly Pulitzer So, the weather hasn’t exactly gotten the memo… But, spring break is fast approaching! Maybe you’ve got big travel plans ahead. ...
Preparing for Your TMS Evaluation
So, you’ve done your research on TMS. Thought it over. Maybe talked with friends and family. Completed your complimentary consultation. And it turns out TMS may be a good fit ...