Category Archives: General

General behavioral health issues.

Psychotropic Medication – Guidelines for Successful Use: Part 3: Notes on Using Medications

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Nate Marshall

Part 3: Notes on Using Medications This post is the third and final post in a series about medications.  If you have not done so already, I suggest you read part one in which I discussed how to recognize symptoms … Continue reading →

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Psychotropic Medication – Guidelines for Successful Use: Part 2: Beginning a Medication

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Nate Marshall

Part 2: Beginning a Medication This post is the second in a series about medications.  If you have not done so already, I suggest you read part one in which I discussed how to recognize symptoms and walked through making … Continue reading →

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Psychotropic Medication – Guidelines for Successful Use: Part One – Should I Take Medications?

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Nate Marshall

One of the most common and difficult issues that comes up for my clients is whether to consider using medications to aid them in addressing their issues, and if they decide to do so, how to do so effectively and … Continue reading →

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Uncertainty: The Only Certainty In Life

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Nate Marshall

  “If you want to be successful in this field, you’d better learn to love ambiguity.”  A professor said this to her class 12 years ago.  As a student in that class, I can almost hear these words today as … Continue reading →

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Getting Around to Talking About Procrastination: 3 Simple Principles to Stop Delaying and Getting It Done

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Nate Marshall

  I have intended to write this post for 3 months now.  My process has been as follows: Identify the topic – check. Brainstorm an outline of what I want to say – check. Stagnate – check. Stall – check. … Continue reading →

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The Search for the Positive

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Nate Marshall

  This post is aimed at helping you through struggles.  Not of the external variety such as financial stress or interpersonal problems, but targeting those struggles that reside within our own minds.  This is about the way that we see … Continue reading →

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Sleep 101: How to Give Yourself the Best Chance at a Good Night’s Sleep

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Nate Marshall

               It’s been a long day.  From the time the alarm went off until this moment, as you lay your head on the pillow, you have been going full steam ahead.  Meeting the demands of your job, your kids, the … Continue reading →

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Should I Stay or Should I Go: How to Decide What to Do With An Unfulfilling Job

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Nate Marshall

    Chances are, we’ve all been there: dreading to go to work the next day because we just absolutely despise our job.  Perhaps it is due to the work itself: too boring/unchallenging or stressful/overwhelming; perhaps it is due to … Continue reading →

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Grief & Loss – Understanding and Coping with the Pain

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Nate Marshall

  There may be no life experience that is more profoundly painful than the loss of a loved one.  Unfortunately, it is an incident that we all must face at numerous stages in our lives.  Even though these are losses … Continue reading →

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Defeat the Worry Beast

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Nate Marshall

We have all, at one time or another, been overpowered by the beast that is worry.  We are bombarded by “what if” thoughts, attacked by nightmarish fantasies about every possible thing that could possibly go wrong.  This may be triggered … Continue reading →

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