Stress and Its Impact on Health: Understanding the Connection
Chronic stress can take a serious toll on both your physical and mental health, contributing to conditions like heart disease, digestive issues, sleep disturbances, and mental health disorders. In this blog post, we explore the far-reaching impacts of stress on your body and offer practical solutions for managing it, including mindfulness, exercise, and setting healthy boundaries. Learn how to break the cycle of stress and restore balance to your life—read on for expert tips and insights from Indigo Path Collective.
Mental Health Vs. Behavioral Health. What’s the Difference?
Like most things in the healthcare industry, there is a lot of confusion about the differences between mental and behavioral health. Who can provide services? How much does it cost? Can I use telehealth? What are these codes on my bill? Check out this blog post for answers to these common questions and more!
Grounding techniques keep you in the present
Grounding techniques bring us into the present. These techniques are often based on mindfulness, which generally means being willing to accept painful and often unwanted thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations and being able to let them go while remaining in the here and now and listening to ourselves while doing so.
Parent Abuse Signs and Strategies for Help
Parent abuse is one of those things that no one seems to be talking about. Yet, it’s happening daily in every community across the United States and around the world. Minor children can and do abuse their parents and custodial guardians in a lot of different ways. However, most of the time, this abusive behavior is brushed under the rug or explained away because of the child’s age.
Implicit Biases…Everyone’s Got Some
Nearly every person you meet shows up with some degree of bias. Oftentimes, these biases are implicit, meaning under the surface of conscious awareness. Then again, some folks show up with biases that are front and center in their thoughts and behaviors, making them explicit. Knowing your implicit biases can help you better see, hear, understand, value, and validate others simply because you know what is under your thoughts.
Let’s Encourage LGBTGEQIAP+ Health Equity Optimism
Regarding LGBTGEQIAP+ health equity, we have an audacious opportunity to improve how data is collected, analyzed, and interpreted. The good news is that the LGBTGEQIAP+ is building momentum by securing our legislative and social positions. As many setbacks as we have experienced, which are entirely too real for far too many of us, progress is also being made. Together, we can make health and healthcare work for everyone, and the LGBTGEQIAP+ community may be the key that opens the door to better health everywhere.
Create a Values-guided Executive Team
In the dynamic landscape of corporate leadership, the synergy between individual values and company values stands as a linchpin for organizational success. At the helm of this synergy lies the executive team, tasked with steering the company and aligning their personal values with the overarching values of the organization. This alignment is pivotal, as it fuels a unified leadership approach that cascades throughout the entire workforce.
Master the Math of Effective Boundaries
Setting boundaries is an art and a science, a delicate balance between respecting oneself and others. It's about establishing guidelines safeguarding our values, protecting our emotional well-being, and fostering healthier relationships. But creating effective boundaries involves more than just drawing lines; it's a formula that encapsulates values, permissions, verbalization, individual opinions, defense strategies, and consequences.
Happy holiday boundaries
As we enter the end-of-year holiday season, many of us will start to experience high anxiety with just the thought of spending time with certain friends and family members or even co-workers. Sometimes, we start drinking early to ease our stress and improve our ability to share space with those folks. Other times, we isolate, panic, argue, or go overboard, trying to control everything around us. If this sounds like your end-of-year holiday experiences or expectations, boundaries may help you achieve your holiday expectations.
Create an LGBTGEQIAP+-affirming healthcare setting
You can build an LGBTGEQIAP+ trauma-informed care practice, and we can help. From designing the program to creating your system and providing training and communication with LGBTGEQIAP+ patients, their families, and providers, Indigo Path Collective can guide you toward fully implementing your affirming healthcare practice.
LGBTGEQIAP+ Trauma-informed Acute Care to Maximize Health Outcomes
Like anyone else, members of the LGBTGEQIAP+ community appear in the emergency department, urgent care, and other acute care settings. Unlike other populations, however, members of the LGBTGEQIAP+ community often experience hostility in these fast-paced healthcare settings. To that end, more can be done in acute care to create trauma-informed care practices to maximize the health of LGBTGEQIAP+ patients. If you are ready to create a trauma-informed acute care setting, take a seat. Let’s talk.
Let’s Talk about HIV
After so many decades, HIV continues to be a problem for members of the LGBTGEQIAP+ community. There are things we can do to eradicate HIV, and it will take all of us to achieve just that. Three factors seem to be most important. Additionally, we have to identify how minority stress is doing damage to the community’s health outcomes.
No Pass when it comes to cannabis use disorder
Using cannabis in the United States is rising and quickly becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. From smoking joints in the 1970s to vaping, eating, and more today, daily use of cannabis has doubled in the United States, according to some experts. However, some of us do not consider cannabis addictive. Come to find out, we’re wrong. Cannabis can be addictive, similar to other legal substances.
Transgender-affirming Care: When Did You Know?
At Indigo Path Collective, we practice informed consent. Even when you need a letter to clinically document your gender experience, we will work with you to do what is required to achieve your healthcare goals legally and ethically.
Toxic Christianity
Millions of people every year are abused and traumatized by Christianity. Toxic Christianity often negatively impacts those who are members of the religion and those who experience this religion in their communities due to Christian-influenced community norms and legislation being forced upon them.
turmeric to reduce PTSD-related inflamation
According to the US Department of Veteran Affairs, about six out of every 100 Americans experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Turmeric may be an effective, natural herb to aid in resolving trauma.
“Obesity” Can get in the way of healing
Research suggests that 5.8% of us with an obesity diagnosis also experience post-traumatic stress disorder. But, that obesity diagnosis might be getting in the way of healing. There is a way to gain the life you desire, and it likely starts with resolving the trauma so that it no longer gets in your way.
The Kids Aren’t All Right When They’re Abusing Their Parents
Kids abuse their parents at alarming rates, according to research that points to acts of child-to-parent violence in upwards of 65% of the families studied. Yet, most studies indicate that parent abuse is underreported.
Parental Abuse is Real
The first step is recognizing the behavior for what it is—abuse. If you are experiencing abuse by your kid at any age, seek help right away. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233
Introducing integrated behavioral healthcare
Is healthcare letting you down? Do you get frustrated because your doctor and counselor don’t seem able to get on the same page or offer you completely different perspectives on what you’re going through? We can fix that for you with integrated behavioral healthcare.
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