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Holiday Conflict & ADHD: Repairing Old Patterns With Care
When Stress Makes Old Patterns Show Up... The holiday season tends to amplify everything: joy, pressure, expectations, family dynamics, and emotional reactivity. For couples navigating ADHD in the relationship, this time of year can also magnify old patterns, the ones...
When Rest Feels Uncomfortable: Why Rest May Trigger Anxiety
As winter arrives, many people picture cozy blankets, warm drinks, and quiet evenings. But for others, slowing down doesn’t feel peaceful at all. Instead, it brings uneasiness, guilt, restlessness, or anxiety. If rest feels hard for you, you’re not the only one. This...
Build Better Sleep, Build Better Days
Sleep influences far more than how tired you feel. It shapes the way you think, how you respond to stress, how well you regulate emotions, and how connected you feel to the people around you. For many people, sleep is the first thing sacrificed when life gets busy. We...
How Men Experience Postpartum Depression and What Helps
When most people hear the phrase postpartum depression, they picture a mother struggling after the birth of a baby. But postpartum depression does not only affect women. Men experience it too. Research shows that as many as one in ten fathers struggle with postpartum...
Going Home for the Hellidays (I Mean, the Holidays)
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” “There’s no place like home for the holidays!” That might be true for some, but for others, going home for the holidays can feel more like emotional boot camp. Why is it that returning home, even for a few days, can bring up...
When Fall Feels Heavy: Coping with Utah’s Seasonal Shift
There’s something beautiful about fall in Utah. Golden leaves cover the mountains, mornings turn crisp, and there’s a quiet stillness in the air as the days grow shorter. Yet for many, that same shift brings something else: heaviness. As the light fades, you might...
Feeling Overwhelmed? Use the HALTS Check-In Before You Spiral
When life feels heavy, it’s easy to slip into overdrive: reacting before thinking, withdrawing from people you love, or spiraling into self-criticism. You might tell yourself, “What’s wrong with me?” when you snap at your partner, feel anxious for no reason, or shut...
You’re Not Alone: Healing from Postpartum Depression
Becoming a mother is often described as one of life’s most beautiful experiences and itabsolutely can be. But what people don’t talk about enough is how deeply challengingand emotional that transition can be. For many new mothers, or for those who thoughtthey had the...
Laughing Through the Hard: It’s Okay to Laugh in Therapy
At Cascade Counseling, we believe therapy doesn’t have to be all tears and tension. Yes, we talk about the hard things like anxiety, loss, burnout, and relationships, but healing doesn’t only happen in heavy moments. Sometimes, it shows up in laughter. “It’s always...
When Motivation Doesn’t Show Up: How to Move Forward Anyway
Most of us wait to feel motivated before we take action. We tell ourselves, “I’ll start when I feel ready,” or “I just need to get in the right headspace.” But what happens when motivation doesn’t show up? For many people—especially those dealing with anxiety,...
The Lazy Guide to Depression: Bed Rotting Like a Pro
Welcome to the world of bed rotting — where your bed quickly becomes less a place to sleep and more a headquarters for scrolling, snacking, and avoiding basically everything that might require effort or decision-making. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. And...
The Power of Connection: Reconnecting with What Matters Most
One of the things I focus on most in therapy is connection. And that’s not by accident. I believe—deeply—that connection is at the core of what it means to be human. Throughout history, across cultures and generations, there’s been one constant: people coming...