Stress Awareness Day has arrived just in time for the holiday season. National Stress Awareness Day was established to help people how to recognize and manage stress in all aspects of their lives. Unmanaged stress can be the cause of many physical and mental issues. While...
By Nicole Lomeli, LMFT Camino a Casa Clinician II and PHP/IOP Coordinator As part of Mental Health Month, we want to focus on self-care and what we can do to help ourselves and our loved ones be more mindful of how self-care impacts our wellbeing. What is...
By: James Freeman, Casa Pacifica Director of Training It’s mid-summer and even kids in extended school year are wrapping up their online classes. It’s been a different summer than any of us had planned or expected. Not since the world wars or the flu pandemic in...
The impact of COVID-19 on our daily routines and habits has been life changing. It’s led us into different ways of living, including how much time we spend together with some and how much time we spend apart from others. It’s especially impacted our time...
When we think about mindfulness, a lot of different things come to mind – yoga poses, sitting cross legged on a pillow or sipping a steamy, organic tea, for instance. But mindfulness is the practice of focusing your awareness on the present moment. Of knowing...