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Bailey Smith

Grief, Trauma, & Loss
The Second Arrow: Self-Compassion in Grief
April 8, 2025

When you hear the word “grief,” what emotions come to mind? We typically tend to associate grief with the sadness of losing a loved one. What’s often less visible are the many other emotions that accompany grief, some of...

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Mental Health
The Best Advice Your Therapist Ever Gave You
February 21, 2025

If you’ve ever been in therapy, you can probably point to some helpful things you learned from your therapist. Maybe it was the sleep routine she recommended that helped you finally rest well. Maybe it was his reminder that...

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Children
The Anxious Generation: Book Review
January 23, 2025

If you have ever thought… Kids these days are always on their phones! My middle schooler never spends time with any friends in person. Taking my high schooler’s phone as a consequence causes more problems than it’s worth. Why...

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Teen Issues
The Importance of “Mattering” to Teens
October 11, 2024

I recently read the book “Never Enough” by Jennifer Breheny Wallace, which dives into achievement culture among adolescents and how it contributes to mental health concerns like anxiety and depression. Through my own school-based counseling work with high school...

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Communication SKills
Positive Self-Talk for Adolescents
July 2, 2024

We’ve all encountered individuals who seem to constantly criticize or speak negatively about others. Being in the presence of such negativity can significantly affect our mood and self-esteem. However, for many teenagers, that critical voice isn’t external—it’s their own...

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Teen Issues
Creating a Values-Based Summer Plan
March 26, 2024

One of the tenets of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is identifying your values, or the things that are most important to you, and taking action steps toward living out those values in your everyday life. With the semester...

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Mental Health
It’s Time to Rest: 5 Types of Rest to Add Into Your Routine
January 3, 2024

Whenever we are facing a season that can bring with it times of busyness and activity, it can also be a great time to prioritize rest. We all may think of different things when we think about rest. Rest...

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Teen Issues
How Teenagers Can Find Connection
October 10, 2023

This generation’s teenagers have more ways to be connected than any previous generation. Whether it’s through social media, texting, or Facetime, today’s adolescents have more avenues of connecting than any other generation could have dreamed about. Despite all the...

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Parents & Parenting
How to Fight Boredom with a Summer Routine
July 17, 2023

Like many of you, I have been hearing a chorus of “I’m bored” from my school-aged clients recently. Without the structure of a typical school schedule, many teenagers get out of the routine of doing anything at all during...

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Young Adult Issues
The Importance of Community for Young Adults
March 14, 2023

As a society, we are lonelier than we’ve ever been. According to a study from the Survey Center on American Life in 2019, almost 50% of all Americans reported having less than 3 close friends, up from 25% reporting...

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