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MENtal Health: How are the Men in Your Life Doing?

Oct 13, 2023Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Therapy Tipsaddiction, awareness, behavior, boyfriend, breaking the cycle, breaking the stigma, communication, community, counseling, counselor, cycle, family, friend, help, honesty, husband, love, melissa cluff, men, Men’s mental health, mental health, recovery, relationship, relationships, self-harm, stigma, suicide, support, therapist, therapy

This is a topic that has been on my mind for quite awhile now. As a therapist, I see many male clients in my office, most working through addictions and/or trauma. The majority of these clients have or have had mental health struggles AND have never sought support for their mental health. So, this post is directed towards the men in my readership, as well as, their partners, who may be wondering how to start the conversation to address men’s mental health.

Neuroplasticity and Addiction Recovery

Jun 3, 2022Addiction, Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Therapy Tips, Traumaaddict, addiction recovery, brain, cluff counseling, counseling, counselor, healing, health, melissa cluff, neurons, neuroplasticity, neurotransmitters, recovery, Tags: Addiction, therapist, therapy

“Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously not thought possible.” ~Michael S. Gazzanica The human brain is incredibly complex. I recently wrote a blog post about the brain’s amazing ability to “learn new tricks.” I simply explained how synapses form new neural pathways, which leads to patterns and habits, and eventually forms […]

Remembering and Moving Forward: Reaching for Safety

Sep 11, 2021Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Social Media, Therapy Tips, Trauma20 years, 2001, 9/11, America, Americans, blog, BYU, cluff counseling, counseling, counselor, external safety, freedom, honoring, inner protection, internal safety, liberty, Lydia Judd, melissa cluff, patriotism, protection, recovery, remembering, safety, therapy, trauma

“When Americans lend a hand to one another, nothing is impossible. We’re not about what happened on 9/11. We’re about what happened on 9/12.” —Jeff Parness, founder of New York Says Thank You It was my Sophomore year at college. I was not, and am not, a morning person, so my first class did not […]

Remembering and Moving Forward: 20+ Years in the Making

Sep 10, 2021Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Trauma20 years, 2001, 9/11, America, American, blog, BYU, cluff counseling, counseling, counselor, external safety, freedom, honoring, inner protection, internal safety, liberty, Lydia Judd, melissa cluff, patriotism, protection, recovery, remembering, safety, therapist, therapy, trauma

Our guest blogger recounts her experience, as a child, during 9/11. She relates it to the internal and external safety we need, all the time, not only after times of national tragedy. Guest blogger, Lydia Judd likens our nation’s experience after 9/11 of increasing our external safety and how we need to look inward and […]

Healing from the Anxiety of 2020

Feb 26, 2021Blog, Mental Health, Productivity, Relationships, Self-Care, Trauma2020, anxiety, cluff counseling, CoronaVirus, COVID, COVID-19, healing, health, hope, melissa cluff, mental health, recovery, therapist, therapy

Compared with 2019, three times more people today are experiencing symptoms of anxiety disorder and four times as many people are experiencing a depressive disorder. About 10% more people started or increased substance use because of COVID-19. And in 2020, twice the number of people reported seriously considering suicide in the past 30 days compared […]

MENtal Health: How are the Men in Your Life Doing?

Neuroplasticity and Addiction Recovery

Remembering and Moving Forward: 20+ Years in the Making

Healing from the Anxiety of 2020

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