Resources Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/category/resources/ Interventions & Treatment Consulting Tue, 10 Dec 2024 05:50:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://heatherhayes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-HH_logo-32x32.png Resources Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/category/resources/ 32 32 What Is Looksmaxxing? The Tiktok Trend With Harmful Potential for Teenage Boys https://heatherhayes.com/what-is-looksmaxxing-the-tiktok-trend-with-harmful-potential-for-teenage-boys/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/incongruence-in-family-systems-how-can-we-better-understand-teen-development-copy/ In a TikTok video which has over two hundred thousand views, a young man explains how looksmaxxing for eight months has changed his appearance completely. He goes on to explain in detail how he went about looksmaxxing and advises viewers that they can achieve these results, too, if they remain committed to the series of […]

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]]> Expert Advice: Proven Strategies to Boost Emotional Resilience https://heatherhayes.com/expert-advice-proven-strategies-to-boost-emotional-resilience/ Fri, 17 May 2024 18:15:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/helping-the-healer-coping-with-client-suicide-copy/ Expert Advice: Proven Strategies to Boost Emotional Resilience We hear a lot about resilience in connection to health.  Building resilience is said to be the key factor in improving many facets of our well-being, from the immune system to social skills. Although individual definitions of it vary, resilience generally refers to two related traits: one’s […]

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]]> Helping the Healer: Coping with Client Suicide https://heatherhayes.com/helping-the-healer-coping-with-client-suicide/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:30:51 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/forest-bathing-understanding-the-very-real-psychological-benefits-of-nature-copy/ One of the most challenging things to discuss among mental health and well-being professionals is the death of a client. Death is a painful and complex subject at any time, but the death of a client carries with it a specifically challenging weight for those of us who work in the fields of counseling, psychology, […]

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]]> BPD and the Drama Triangle https://heatherhayes.com/bpd-and-the-drama-triangle/ Sun, 17 Apr 2022 04:05:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/bpd-within-the-family-system-copy/ The Karpman Drama Triangle is a model of social human interaction which maps out a destructive pattern of social behavior. Each point of the triangle defines a cyclical and dysfunctional role: the Persecutor, Rescuer, and Victim. The Drama Triangle is commonly exhibited by sufferers of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). BPD is typically characterized by the […]

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]]> BPD within the Family System https://heatherhayes.com/bpd-within-the-family-system/ Sun, 10 Apr 2022 04:39:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=4844 “When you travel to another country, it’s important to know the local customs. When you’re interacting with someone with BPD, it’s crucial to understand that their unconscious assumptions may be very different from yours.” ~ Paul T. Mason, Author of “Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline […]

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]]> The Role of Family in Addiction and Mental Health Treatment https://heatherhayes.com/treatment/ Sun, 23 Jan 2022 05:30:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/understanding-attachment-styles-copy/ Seeing your child or loved one enter addiction or mental health treatment can be harrowing. Not only have you had to watch your child suffer through the stages of addiction, but when they enter rehab, you are cut off from them for several weeks at a minimum. As a parent or family member, it can […]

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]]> Understanding Attachment Styles https://heatherhayes.com/understanding-attachment-styles/ Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:05:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=4742 “Attachment theory teaches us that true autonomy relies on feeling securely connected to other human beings.”  ~ Nora Samaran Attachment styles are used to describe patterns of attachment in relationships. These styles are formulated in early infancy and evolve out of the emotional connection to the primary caregiver. Attachment theory states that these early attachment […]

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]]> Bereavement and Mental Health https://heatherhayes.com/bereavement-and-mental-health/ Sun, 25 Apr 2021 04:01:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=4171 “Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed. That doesn’t mean needing someone to try to lessen it or reframe it for them. The need is for someone to be fully […]

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]]> BPD: Understanding Splitting https://heatherhayes.com/bpd-understanding-splitting/ Sun, 07 Feb 2021 10:07:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=3998 “People with BPD are like people with third-degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.” – Marsha Linehan[1] Borderline Personality Disorder, or BPD, is a common mental health condition characterized by being hypersensitive to rejection and, as a result, experiencing instability of interpersonal relationships, […]

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]]> Living in the Solution https://heatherhayes.com/living-in-the-solution/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:11:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=3987 “A lot of things that mental health professionals try to exterminate and fix have their origins as solutions to very complex problems.” ~ Bessel van der Kolk By the time most people ask for psychiatric help, they will have spent a good deal of time already struggling with whatever mental health condition they require assistance […]

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]]> Beating the New Year’s Blues https://heatherhayes.com/beating-the-new-years-blues/ Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:11:26 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=2597 Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and the New Year’s blues affect many people each year. An estimated 10 million [1] Americans are affected by Seasonal Affective Disorder, with a further 10 -20% experiencing mild symptoms. Fewer daylight hours disrupt a variety of neurochemicals and can cause fatigue, sadness, irritability, and difficulty concentrating. When you combine SAD […]

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]]> Family Healing: From Transport to Treatment https://heatherhayes.com/family-healing-from-transport-to-treatment/ Sat, 12 Dec 2020 13:47:30 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=2576 Following Paris Hilton’s documentary, This is Paris, there has been an increase in media related to “The Troubled Teen Industry.” In the film, Hilton describes her traumatic experiences at a Utah boarding school, where she was subjected to punitive behavior, verbal abuse, and deceptive marketing practices. After her negative experiences, she vowed to not “give […]

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