From October 7 – 14, the team at THIRA Health joins the National Mental Illness Awareness, founded by the National Alliance of Mental Illness. We are distraught and upset with the recent events in the
In American culture, we are used to hearing advice about healthy lifestyles in specific numbers and terminology: “eat fewer carbs”, “watch your sugar intake”, and “avoid sodium altogether”. In other cultures, healthy lifestyles often involve
The practice of mindfulness originated thousands of years ago and means paying full attention to one’s surroundings at the present moment. Although it’s not a clinical technique, it is an active component of Dialectical Behavior
We celebrate most milestones in our days—and our lives—by eating. We must eat, but we also love to eat, and perhaps the single greatest virtue of our nature is the one which wants to share
At THIRA Health, we provide our patients with all information and resources they need to help girls and young women lead the life they want and deserve. This week, we present to you a round
The team at THIRA Health leverages Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) as the foundation for each of our programs. Dialectical Behavior Therapy was originally developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan, We’re thrilled to share that Dr. Linehan’s influential
It’s that time of the year: high school students making their college decisions, moving out and starting their independent lives away from home. Many parents may start to experience the Empty Nest Syndrome – that
An estimated one in six women suffer from postpartum depression, and many more develop compulsive behaviors (such as washing their hands or obsessively checking whether their baby is breathing.) As a cocktail of hormones surge
By Emily Fitch, Resident Dietician Food is among the greatest, simplest pleasures of being human. Every piece of food we digest offers our bodies something different, and personally understanding our relationship to food is
The characteristics of a fad diet are built around the intense, contagious enthusiasm for a niche weight-loss strategy, and the general promise of a faster and easier pathway to results. These crazes seem to emerge
Despite the fact that the hardest working part of the body is the brain, one is far more likely to hear commentary about nourishing only the visible parts of the body. Informed with new research,
By Dr. Mehri Moore, M.D. We’d like to take a brief moment to discuss the at-times aggressive, counter-productive resolutions that so often accompany the New Year (“new year, new me”) which can cause feelings of
