Mindful Soul Blog

Read our thoughts and insights on a variety of mental health topics including anxiety, depression, LGBTQ+ issues, and more!

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Understanding & Befriending Eating Disorders: An IFS Perspective

By Amanda Leone, MSW, LSW Eating disorders are typically treated with a medical focus on stabilizing the body and clinically focusing on behaviors and intrusive thoughts. However, only focusing on medical consequences and intrusive thoughts can create…
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Dating After Divorce: A Therapist’s Perspective

By: Lara Farrokh, MSW, LCSW Full Disclosure: This writer has never been divorced. But I truly love working with people who are experiencing divorce, especially those identifying as women. Please also note, I write this from what I have learned working…
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Depression in Teens and Tweens: Know the Signs and How to Support

By: Meredith Beach, MSW, LCSW There can be no question that many are relieved to find the year 2020 coming to an end after the challenges many of us have faced in light of the global pandemic, increased isolation, and disruption to our sense of normalcy.…
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Why You Shouldn’t Set A New Year’s Resolution This Year…before reading this blog

By: Lara Farrokh, MSW, LCSW Full self-disclosure: I love the idea of setting a resolution and starting fresh on a goal. I do it every year. As a therapist in mental health, anecdotally I have seen and heard from other therapists, that the beginning…
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FAQs about Telehealth at Mindful Soul

In response to our current state of emergency due to COVID-19, Mindful Soul is taking therapy online! We know our clients have a lot of questions, so we put together this helpful FAQ to answer them.  How Does Telehealth Work? We are currently using…
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COVID-19 Notice to Clients of Mindful Soul

We are OPEN for Business! . . . online! : ) COVID-19 Notice to Clients  3/14/20 It has been a pretty wild week in New Jersey with COVID-19 and we want to share our latest plans and preparations. Governor Murphy announced yesterday afternoon that…
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Guided Meditation: An Introduction to Mindfulness with Ji!

These days, the word "mindfulness" is all over the mental health and wellness worlds...but what does it actually mean and how can it help you? In this vlog post, Mindful Soul's Ji Lim, MSEd, MPhil LPC, talks about the how and why of Mindfulness along…
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The Nurturing Benefits of Nature for Mental Health 

By Amanda Leone, MSW, LSW While many of us know intuitively and through our own experiences, recent research supports the notion that time spent in nature is connected with a positive mood, a sense of meaningfulness, and vitality. Spending time in…
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Healing Our Horcruxes: Harry Potter & Trauma Therapy

By Sarah A. Temel, MSEd, LAC In the sixth (and my favorite) book of the series, The Half Blood Prince, Dumbledore takes Harry on an incredible and terrifying excursion through memories of Tom Riddle, who would one day become the world’s darkest…
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Altered Books: Healing the Past through Creativity!

Art often creates a language for the things there may not be words for.  Check out this video in which Altered Books facilitator and therapist, Heather McPaul, MS, LAC, NCC explains the incredible healing power of creating an altered book. The…
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Creativity for Adults

It seems a difficult thing for adults in our culture to reconcile time for themselves amongst the many roles they play, especially when those roles include work or parenthood.  Creative workshops and expressive arts therapy groups might seem frivolous…
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Kids and Mindfulness

Increasing Kids' Emotional Intelligence through Mindfulness The lives of young children, tweens, and teens are bursting with experiences that encourage increased independence, decision-making skills, and responsibility. Many situations that are viewed…

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