by Zoe Cuneo | Jul 8, 2025 | Menopause / Perimenopause
Menopause and Brain Health Navigating menopause and perimenopause can feel overwhelming, especially with the flood of misinformation online and even from some healthcare providers. Symptoms like hot flashes, mood changes, sleep disruptions, and memory lapses are often...
by Zoe Cuneo | Dec 12, 2024 | Menopause / Perimenopause, Self-Care & Self Love
Self-Care for Peri-Menopause: Understanding the Challenges Self-care for peri-menopause includes finding joy where you can and reframing this transition. Recently I’ve been slogging through a book for physicians, Menopause Practice, and I’ve gotta tell ya, it reads...
by Zoe Cuneo | Nov 8, 2024 | Adverse Childhood Events, Trauma
ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Why They Are Important The ACEs assessment is a tool that is useful in helping us understand the impact of childhood (up to age 18) trauma on our functioning. It asks questions about emotional/psychological abuse, neglect...
by Zoe Cuneo | Sep 17, 2024 | Menopause / Perimenopause, Self-Care & Self Love
Perimenopause: I thought I was Going Crazy I went through a lot of life changes in my 40s: sold my home in New Orleans, bought a new one in Baton Rouge, quit my job, left my support system, found a new job, got married, and had an instant family of three to care...
by Zoe Cuneo | Aug 1, 2024 | Trauma
Trauma, like ogres and onions, has many layers. What is trauma? Trauma is anything that happened to you that changed the way you look at yourself or the world. I know that’s pretty broad, but what is trauma to one person may not be trauma to another. Trauma doesn’t...
by Mechele Evans | Jun 10, 2024 | Family, Suicide Prevention
There has been a lot of talk in recent years about estrangement from family. It is something that has always existed, but is being talked about more and more. The old ideals of putting family before everything, at times even before one’s self, no longer holds. But...
by Mechele Evans | Apr 30, 2024 | Finding a Therapist
Finding a Therapist Therapy! Why do I need to go to a complete stranger and open up my deepest darkest secrets? Why would I want to remember the sad or bad things that have happened to me when I’ve worked so hard to keep them tucked away in a box? What if I try it and...
by Mechele Evans | Apr 30, 2024 | Adverse Childhood Events
Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) Study – Physical Problems Due to Unresolved Trauma How scary is this? From 1995-1997, Kaiser Permanente, a huge hospital in Southern California studied over 17,000 patients for this study. It asked questions about abuse and...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Suicide Prevention
Help! Someone Is Saying They Want to Kill Themselves, What Do I Do? It is hard to hear someone we care about suffer so much that they think that suicide is the only answer. We want to provide them comfort and keep them safe. But what if we’re not a trained...
by Mechele Evans | Sep 12, 2018 | Relationships & Couples Therapy
When Love Hurts Fred and Ginger sit side by side on the couch. They’ve been arguing a lot the past few months, but right now, she feels a surge of love for him, and reaches for his hand. He pulls it away, and claps for the team playing on the screen. The moment has...
