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Read this interesting article on narcissism from Psychology Today!

With the sudden 40 degree dip in temperatures and unending rain we’ve been dealt, we all could use a bit of motivation today.  Hope your Monday is productive and successful!

Check out this great TED talk from one of our personal faves, Glennon Doyle Melton.  Glennon is a recovering alcoholic and bulimic, and has her own blog called Momastery.   She’s also written Carry On, Warrior, and, in her words, is a “truth teller and hope spreader”.  In this clip, Glennon speaks to the “capes” we all wear in an effort to hide our true selves.

And don’t forget to stop by our table at the forum on suicide prevention on May 20th! Counseling Services of Greater Boston will be attending this community event hosted by Wakefield Public Schools and the Massachusetts Northeast Region Suicide Prevention Coalition.  We may even have some artistic activities for all to enjoy.  See you there!

Hope you enjoy Mother’s Day weekend, all!

Happy Spring, everyone.  We hope you get a chance to be out and about enjoying the almost 80 degree temps that will arrive on Monday!  And for those who are mothers – an early Happy Mother’s Day to you.  In honor of this neverending, rewarding, exhausting job, we are posting a wonderful article about staying mindful when your child is ill.

Dr. Sue Orsillo is the co-author of The Mindful Way Through Anxiety.  In this book and interview she provides a way for moms to navigate the dark waters of anxiety when our children are ill.

Check it out!

Take a moment to watch this: Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor on psychiatry and mental health expert, provides her experience with bipolar disorder and how it affected her life.

What are your thoughts on this?  If you’ve experienced bipolar disorder, were your symptoms similar or different?  We’d love to hear from you.

Happy Marathon weekend to all in the Boston area.  We hope you are enjoying the beautiful, long-awaited spring weather and have had some time to take care of you!

On May 20th, Counseling Services of Greater Boston will be attending a community forum on suicide prevention, hosted by Wakefield Public Schools and the Massachusetts Northeast Region Suicide Prevention Coalition.  The goal of this forum is to provide education to students and families about suicide and mental health, and to connect them to service providers in the area.  Counseling Services of Greater Boston will have a table with information – please stop by and say hello!

Also, if you have any questions about the event please contact Christina White (christina.white@wpsk12.org) or Jason Levene (jason.levene@wpsk12.org) at Wakefield High School.

And please never hesitate to contact us at (781) 328-1904.

Take a moment out of your (hopefully) lazy Friday to read this Psychology Today article, which focuses on research done on the ratio between your index finger and ring finger.  That’s right folks, it seems certain personality and sexuality traits are linked to certain ratios.

What Do Your Fingers Tell About Your Hormones, Personality, and Sexuality?

Ok, so it’s technically spring here in Wakefield, MA.  But it sure doesn’t look like it, does it?  But we at Counseling Services of Greater Boston are hopeful that will change soon, along with the changes we have to announce:

• During the first week of April, we will be located strictly on the second floor of 7 Lincoln St.  We will no longer use 309a as a therapeutic space, and will utilize 200, suites 209 and 216.
• We have also begun our fourth DBT group for adolescent women!  Dialectical behavior therapy is a cognitive based approach that helps clients who struggle with extreme mood swings, multiple crises, and faulty thoughts and assumptions.  Our DBT group offers adolescent women the chance to gain practical skills to manage these symptoms through the utilization of both cognitive behavioral worksheets and art therapy directives.  Over ten weeks, group members will examine the four modules of DBT and learn how to incorporate these skills into everyday practice.  As this group is full, please keep an eye out for future announcements about group openings.

And if you have any therapeutic needs, please don’t hesitate to contact us at (781) 328-1904.

Hang in there folks; those 60 degree temps are coming!