The JEM Blog
Resources for Joy & Wellness
Our blog is our way of sharing the best and latest resources to assist you on your journey toward less stress, more joy and a richer connection with yourself and others.
We organize our resources based on common growth opportunities our clients experience: managing anxiety, parenting, life transitions, shame resilience, and relationships.
Managing Holiday Loneliness: Finding Peace & Connection During the Holidays
The holiday season, often associated with warmth, joy, and time spent with loved ones, can also bring about feelings of loneliness and isolation for many people. If you're facing [...]
Understanding the Trauma in Natural Life Transitions
Life is a series of transitions. From changing schools in childhood, moving away from friends or family, graduating from high school or college and starting a new job to [...]
The Benefits of Mental Health Concierge Services
How JEM Concierge brings access to a variety of services, discreet and flexible care, and the ability for long-lasting care to your door In recent years, mental health [...]
Overcoming Back-to-School Anxiety and Building Resilience
As summer comes to a close and the start of the school year quickly approaches, it's natural for both parents and students to experience a mix of emotions. Alongside the [...]
5 Reasons to Trash Your New Year’s Resolutions
The beginning of a new year often brings with it a sense of renewal and the opportunity for self-improvement. We're all familiar with the ritual: jotting down ambitious goals, promising [...]
The Delicate Art of Connecting with Teens
At times, connecting with teenagers can sometimes feel like trying to find your way through a maze! Our teens are at a place in their lives where they want more [...]
Transforming Your Dreams into Your Reality
Have you ever found yourself dreaming big, setting goals, and visualizing success, only to find that you're still standing at the starting line, hesitant to take that first step? It's [...]
GritMAMA: Seeing, Allowing and Honoring our Resilience as Mothers
GRIT. Determination, Resilient, Endurance, Tough, Fortitude, Pluck, Spunk, Fearlessness, Courageous. Who has it? We, at gritMAMA, believe Mothers have grit. We own it. Mothers have passion and perseverance. We get [...]
Working Parents & Summer Vacation – How will we Manage it All?!
Summer vacation can be a fun and exciting time for school-age children, but it can also be a challenging time for working parents. With children out of school for several [...]
Stressed Out At School? Try These Hacks For Stress Free Finals
School stress is a common problem that many students face, especially around finals time! It can be caused by a variety of factors, such as academic pressure, social expectations, and [...]
Getting Un-Slumped; Am I in my Own Way?
Do you ever feel like YOU might be what’s ultimately blocking you from what you’re meant to be doing? That promotion? Playing on that team? Taking your business to the [...]
A Thorough BetterHelp Vs JEM Review
TL:DR: BetterHelp does provide services you’d find just as valuable as JEM Wellness & Counseling. However, JEM also provides equine therapy along with both virtual and local counseling services. [...]
Finding Our Voice in Counseling, and How It can Strengthen Our Relationships
This story comes to us from a client who is now six years into counseling. They reflect on their experience in early counseling, when they saw changes in their [...]
Home for the Summer-5 Ways Parents Can Engage Their Kids this Summer
There’s no time of year a school-age child loves more than summer vacation. Summer is the season of pool parties, later bedtimes, and – do we even need to [...]
How do we talk about Grief & Loss?
Grief is one of the most common mental and emotional processes we experience, whether we interpret it that way or not. After almost any transition, there is a period [...]
5 Tips for Stress Management that Really Work
It’s 2022, and it seems like life is moving faster than ever. More obligations and ways to stay connected all add up to more stress. With our phones right [...]
Quieting the Inner Critic with a Simple Meditation Practice
From popular apps to bestselling how-to guides, meditation is everywhere. The benefits of meditation for mental and physical wellbeing are undeniable, and now modern Western research is beginning to [...]
Managing Anxiety with the Power of Breath
Beginning to manage day-to-day stress and anxiety can be as easy listening to your breathing. Today, expressing that you live with anxiety does not hold the same unfamiliarity [...]
What therapy feels like to a child; a reflection
This story comes to us from a client in counseling as an adult who was first introduced to therapy as a child. He shares his story in order to [...]
Learning to Let Go
Figuring out how to let go is one of the hardest things to do. We have so many hopes, dreams, and expectations, and they all mean a lot to [...]
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