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.
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.
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.
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.
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