What’s The Difference: Panic Attack vs. Anxiety Attack
Panic Attack vs. Anxiety Attack Experiencing occasional anxiety can be a normal part of life. Anxiety is simply the body’s response to a perceived...
Read MoreHow to Recover From Burnout
What is Burnout? Stress, overwork, and super packed schedules can all contribute to cognitive overload, leaving you feeling emotionally drained and easily overwhelmed....
Read MoreTypes of PTSD, Explained
Introduction to PTSD Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that develops following a traumatic experience or series of events. Examples of such...
Read MoreWhat is Wet Brain and Can it Be Cured?
What is Wet Brain? Wet brain, more formally known as Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (WKS), is a brain disorder caused by severe vitamin B1 (Thiamine) deficiency....
Read More12 Over the Counter Anxiety Treatments
Nearly a fifth of all adults suffer from an anxiety disorder. Each one of those anxiety disorders has different levels of severity, triggers, and...
Read MoreOccupational Therapy Student Joins Our Staff
Barn Life Recovery Receives Occupational Therapy Student From Baylor University Barn Life Recovery is partnering with Baylor University on an occupational therapy internship...
Read MoreHow to Increase Dopamine
The Best Ways to Increase Dopamine If something has ever made you smile, then you’ve experienced dopamine. Dopamine is a chemical made by your...
Read MoreThe Importance of Practicing Self Love
Experiencing a Lack of Self Love Let’s try a thought experiment to illustrate a point concerning the way we treat our bodies. We’ll...
Read MoreTransactional Analysis: The Games People Play
A Quick History Count up the number of therapeutic modalities currently used in psychotherapy worldwide and they probably number in the hundreds. The psychiatrist...
Read MoreBorderline Personality Disorder Stories
Borderline Personality Disorder and Mythology You may never see it coming. The defenses can be aggressive, frigid, fiery, slithering, and destabilizing. Borderline personality...
Read MoreWhat is Respect?
Weekly Theme: What is Respect? Growing up we learned that respect is saying please and thank you, making eye contact when shaking hands, or...
Read MoreImprovisation: Flexibility and Creativity for Mental Wellness
Improving Mental Wellness with Improvisation What is improvisation, anyway? Google a definition and you’ll get “the act of improvising” - helpful, isn’t it? Let’s...
Read MoreReturning to the Present
Sometimes you hear a pull to return Like a fish out of water hears the waves Or a falcon hears the wind “Come back,...
Read MoreFamily and Accountability
The Value of Family Family – a word that can carry such pain and yearning yet also warmth and purpose. Barn Life practices the...
Read MoreWhat is Self-Love?
Self-Love is a Basic Human Necessity What are basic human necessities? Some include food, water, air, and shelter. These things we quite literally cannot...
Read MoreThe Power of Forgiveness
Forgiveness: The Ultimate Symbol of Strength Those of us in recovery who have spent some time among the twelve-step community know that...
Read MoreCrisis is Choice
The Turning Point Within Have you ever been in a situation faced with an important challenge that felt insurmountable by your usual methods of...
Read MorePsychosis and Schizophrenia
What is Psychosis? Psychosis is sensory perceptions and abnormal thinking experienced by an individual struggling with a schizophrenia spectrum or other psychotic-based disorder. Reminder!...
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