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Happy New Year!! Here are a few ideas from a Thriveworks therapist, @grammingwithemily, on making goals instead of New Years Resolutions: Start small! Make a plan to reach your goal by setting small objectives that you can complete successfully, and then add to them from there. This will help you shape your habits slowly instead of trying to make a huge change immediately, which can be hard and may leave you feeling frustrated if you don’t see results right away. Follow us on TikTok for more videos like this!

The holiday mindset doesn’t have a definitive starting point and end point. Anticipation builds throughout the month of December and when normal life resumes in January, we experience vacation withdrawal for weeks. So, here are some tips for entering and exiting the holidays like a champ:

By now, we’ve all met our coworkers’ furry companions via Zoom. And when it came our turn to introduce our beloved cat or dog, we did it with pride. It’s evident that we have deep bonds with our pets. The question is how did this human-animal connection come to be? Here’s a look at its evolution, plus the mental health benefits of pet ownership.

The last thing we want to do after a long day of work is clean, pull weeds, run errands unless these chores are cyber chores. If we can knock out these tasks in a video game, we’re more than willing to get them done. In fact, many people love to do chores in video games! Andrew Lightfoot, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Clinical Director at Thriveworks, explains why.

Have you heard of the Internal Emotional Thermometer? This concept poses that our emotions can range from extremely low (1) to extremely high (10) throughout the day and it can spike in a matter of seconds. Learn more about how to monitor and regulate your emotions using this tried and true technique.