Journal Prompts to Relieve Stress and Anxiety by Sharon Martin, San Jose therapist and counselor

15 Journal Prompts to Help Relieve Stress and Anxiety

Everyone experiences stress – the tension and pressure of too many demands on our time and resources (both emotional and material).   Even if you don’t meet the clinical criteria for an anxiety disorder, I’m sure you’ve experienced some of the hallmark symptoms from time to time: uncontrollable worry trouble concentrating insomnia rumination or obsessive thoughts muscle tension stomach aches, […]

free mental health worksheets

Free Mental Health Worksheets and Tools

  Free Mental Health Worksheets I’ve created a resource library full of absolutely free mental health worksheets, articles, journal prompts, meditations, and more! These are the self-improvement tools and resources that I’ve put together over decades of work as a therapist and coach. I realized there’s no point in keeping these self-improvement tools exclusively for my clients when they could […]

14 Gratitude Journal Prompts

14 Gratitude Journal Prompts

  We need gratitude more than ever. When we’re feeling discouraged, alone, anxious, or angry, it’s hard to be grateful. We know we’re supposed to feel grateful. It’s Thanksgiving-time after all. But you may be having a hard time tapping into gratitude right now.  Our country is in turmoil, leaving us with a heaviness that’s hard to shake. Or maybe […]

Practice Gratitude All Year Long: A Photo Gratitude Journal

It’s the season of gratitude and giving thanks. Of course, our gratitude practice shouldn’t be reserved only for November. According to the Greater Good Research Center in Berkeley, there are tremendous benefits from practicing gratitude on a regular basis – everything from helping struggling marriages to improved health and better grades in school. But surprisingly, Americans resist gratitude. A Harris […]