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Seven Tips for Blended Families
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 145. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Sep 13, 20236 min read


Emotions: Blended Family Publix Commercial
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 144. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Sep 6, 20234 min read


Women and Men Behaving Badly In the News: Speaking up or Acting Out? You Decide (Part II)
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 143. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Aug 30, 20234 min read


Special Blog for My 2023 CyFair Teachers Mental Well-being Resources
Hello CyFair Friends! I had such an amazing time with all of you and hope you did as well. As promised, I am sending the info we talked...

Tami West
Aug 24, 20237 min read


Women and Men Behaving Badly In the News: Speaking up or Acting Out? You Decide (Part I)
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 143. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Aug 23, 20235 min read


Creating Healthy Systems within Family, Work, and Community
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 141. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Aug 9, 20234 min read


What if Our Problems Aren’t "Our" Problems? (What if it’s other people's stuff?)
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 140. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Aug 2, 20235 min read


Identifying Problems & Solutions for Mental Wellbeing Part II
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 139. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Jul 26, 20234 min read


Identifying Problems & Solutions for Mental Wellbeing Part I
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 138. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Jul 19, 20234 min read


Mental Health & the Importance of Language with Shelly Houser
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 137. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Jul 12, 20234 min read


Your Mental Health Quotient Part III
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 136. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Jul 5, 20237 min read


Mood/Outlook & Social Self: Mental Health Quotient Part II
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 135. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Jun 28, 20236 min read


Your Mental Health Quotient Part I
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 134. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Jun 21, 20234 min read


Healing and the ACE's Survey Part II
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 133. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Jun 14, 20236 min read


Healing and the ACE's Survey
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 132. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
Jun 7, 20236 min read


Codependency: If you are OK, I'm OK... Or Am I?
The If you are ok, I’m Ok Narrative and The Impact on Mental Health -Codependency definition: Being the caretaker of other’s emotion....

Tami West
May 24, 20234 min read


Living With a Diagnosis: What does it mean?
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 130. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: We...

Tami West
May 17, 20234 min read


Has Someone Spoken Words of Condemnation Over You?
They were the most destructive four words I had ever heard, and brought me down a path that eventually landed me in a psychiatric...

Tami West
May 10, 20233 min read


Rituals (and Traditions): Why?
This past week has been filled with experiences that have impacted me deeply. Several of them, I have come to realize, are associated...

Tami West
Apr 12, 20233 min read


Can We Do Anything to Prevent School Shootings?
Welcome back to Consider Yourself Hugged! Click here to listen to Episode 129. OR click YouTube below to watch! (***Disclaimer: I provide...

Tami West
Apr 5, 20234 min read
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