by Andrea Trank | May 15, 2022
Did you know that May has been Mental Health Awareness Month since the late 1940s? This year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Month is #ToolstoThrive. When I was originally diagnosed with anxiety 30 plus years ago, I was not thinking about thriving, I was thinking...
by Andrea Trank | Apr 2, 2022
Are You Engaging in Spiritual Bypassing or “Toxic Positive Thinking”? Positive Thinking sometimes gets a bad rap especially when things are not going well for you in life. In fact, some people have labeled too much emphasis on positive thinking as toxic...
by Andrea Trank | Dec 5, 2021
Understanding and Changing Behaviors are not the Same What works when you are trying to change your autonomic nervous system’s reaction to events and situations? As I pointed out in part 1 of this series, (see earlier blog post here) there is a reason your...
by Andrea Trank | Oct 10, 2021
Why Bottom-Up not Top-Down May Work for Mental Health! Today is World Mental Health Day. Perhaps we should rename this as “The Role of the Nervous System World Mental Health Day.” Here is what I have learned through my own mental health healing journey. When I was in...
by Andrea Trank | Sep 20, 2021
Raising Your Energetic Vibration Is Not “Pollyanna”! My husband and I have caught the Ted Lasso bug. This show just won several Emmys including best comedy. It has been called the greatest “feel good” show out there. There are so many things to like...
by Andrea Trank | Sep 5, 2021
Human behavior is revealed in this disturbing TV series! I have been watching the Amazon Prime Series “The Man in the High Castle”. As I am witnessing this riveting and disturbing fictional account of what life would have been like in the U.S. had the Axis Powers of...