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Seasonal Affective Disorder Awareness – How to Combat Symptoms This Winter
The winter months can be long, cold, and dark. Sometimes, so much so that the weather can cause individuals to develop a form of depression called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). While many individuals may feel the “blah” of the winter blues or challenges related...
Reframing Mental Health as Brain Health
Our brains are astonishingly complex organs, orchestrating everything from the fleeting pulse of thought to our deepest of our emotions. Yet, when discussing mental well-being, mental health, or eating disorders, we often resort to language that feels distant and...
Recognizing and Overcoming Stress, Burnout, and Compassion Fatigue
Imagine this: your to-do list stretches like a never-ending scroll, deadlines loom like thunderclouds, and the constant emotional demands of life feel like a weight pinning you down. You're tired, yes, but it's a different kind of tired. This isn't simply the fatigue...
School Refusal: Why It May Be More Than You Think
Imagine this: the alarm clock blares, sunlight streams through the window, and a new day stretches before you. But for some children and teenagers, this isn't a fresh start, it's a descent into anxiety. Every fiber of their being screams against the thought of...
The Gift of Selflessness and How It Can Impact Your Mental Well-Being
The holidays are a time of giving, serving, and appreciating what you have. These expressions of gratitude may be easier for some than they are for others for a variety of reasons, including where one may be “at” in a recovery journey or what’s going on with their...
Treatment Avoidance: Why It’s a Problem and How We Can Help
Seeking help for an eating disorder or other mental health condition can be incredibly difficult. Between societal stigma, financial barriers, and the challenging nature of vulnerability inherent in therapy, treatment avoidance is incredibly common across many...
Galen Hope Achieves Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval
Prestigious accreditation recognizes Galen Hope for providing the highest quality mental health and eating disorders treatment CORAL GABLES, November 1, 2022 – Galen Hope, an evidence-based treatment program for adults and adolescents with eating disorders and...
Understanding and Treating Complex Mental Health Conditions: An Interview with Galen Hope Co-Founder Amy Boyers, Ph.D.
In the last few years, many people have grown more comfortable with openly talking about mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety. Perhaps in part due to our shared pandemic-era experiences with loneliness, worry and grief, the stigma associated with...
Focusing on ADHD
Let’s Discuss OCD Awareness
The second week of October is OCD Awareness week. This makes this a great time to talk about this much misunderstood diagnosis. Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a complicated condition that has made its way into popular culture. Unfortunately, much of what...
Some thoughts for International Overdose Awareness Day
August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day, and at Galen Hope, it is a topic that is close to our hearts. International Overdose Awareness Day is “The world’s annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died, and acknowledge the...
An Interview with Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt: Part 3
Making the decision to seek treatment for trauma, anxiety, depression, anorexia, bulimia or any other eating disorder or mental health disorder isn’t easy. First, it can be hard to acknowledge that you have a problem. Second, you have to be willing to at least...
Treating the Whole Person: An Interview with Galen Hope Co-Founder Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt: Part 2
Mental illnesses and eating disorders can take a devasting toll on people’s lives. Mental health conditions also impact the lives of family members, who may desperately want to relieve their loved one’s suffering, but aren’t always sure how to help. In Part 2 of our...
An Interview with Galen Hope Co-Founder Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt: Part 1
Recently, we sat down with Galen Hope Co-Founder Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt to discuss why Galen Hope came to be, and what makes us different. You have over 30 years of experience in eating disorders and mental health treatment. What were your goals in founding...
Diverse Cultures and Mental Health and Eating Disorder Treatment
Recently we have been thinking a lot about the things that prevent people with an eating disorder or mental health condition from getting well. These barriers are complex. There are some conditions that can’t be cured, and for which treatment is an ongoing part of...
Treatment Trauma
Picking up on a theme from our Pride Month blog, we want to talk about traumatic treatment and therapy practices. This discussion may be difficult, and it may be uncomfortable, but it’s necessary to address how treatment itself can be potentially harmful for patients...
The Power and Potential of Dads and Stepdads
As dads and stepdads, we are often the initial male influence in our children’s lives, setting standards for how they expect to be treated by boys and other men in our society. Yet, many of us are confused about how to parent, and seem content to take a back seat when...
Pride Month: Affirming care for the LGBTQ+ Community
June is Pride Month for the LGBTQI community. Pride Month is a great time to celebrate the wins for equality and acceptance. But since Pride Month started as a protest movement, it’s also an appropriate time to talk about the potential risks that LGBTQI folks face...
5 Things You May Not Know About Mental Health
May is National Mental Health Month, which (of course) is a topic that we feel very strongly about. As we have in some of our recent blog posts, we wanted to share some information that you may not already know about, or some things that we thought were well worth...
recognized for the highest quality of care
The Joint Commission is the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.
A renowned mental health care and eating disorders treatment center, Galen Hope is the recipient of The Joint Commission’s accreditation, a prestigious designation awarded to health care organizations recognized for exceeding the highest national standards for safety and quality of patient care.