Rockridge offers services for healing and nurturing the whole body. With more mental health care professionals than anywhere in the region and a full range of bodywork, spas, and pampering services, Rockridge is your destination for living well.
In our Wellness Blog, you can hear directly from these Rockridge professionals.
As a certified Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist, I help women address incontinence, diastasis recti, and pain in the low back, hips, SI joint, pubic symphysis, or pelvic floor (including pain with insertion).
Trauma can leave experiences feeling stuck in the present rather than part of the past. In this Q&A, Brooke shares her approach to trauma therapy, focusing on safety, pacing, and helping people feel more vibrant and alive.
Clients who use substances in varying degrees are often grouped together under the label “addicts.” This all-or-nothing thinking reduces individuals to one category, stripping away their histories, complexities, strengths and resiliences. It also fails to account for the diversity and range of substance-related issues clients experience.
In the realm of fitness, the debate between structured strength training and everyday activities like walking often arises. While both contribute to overall health, understanding the unique benefits of each can help you optimize your fitness journey.
Trauma can leave experiences feeling stuck in the present rather than part of the past. In this Q&A, Brooke shares her approach to trauma therapy, focusing on safety, pacing, and helping people feel more vibrant and alive.
Leading with Empathy and Boundaries in a Stressful Time: We’re living in an era where headlines feel relentlessly urgent. Each day seems to deliver more unsettling news…
Sometimes, when we experience a confusing situation in our lives—a tricky misunderstanding, a missed flight, a difficult loss, or even positive news we weren't expecting—we can find ourselves in a nagging bind…
In the realm of fitness, the debate between structured strength training and everyday activities like walking often arises. While both contribute to overall health, understanding the unique benefits of each can help you optimize your fitness journey.
Psychodynamic therapy is a reflective, open-ended approach that looks at both the past and present. In this Q&A, Brooke shares how this work unfolds, what it can address, and why she finds it so meaningful.
Sometimes the demands of life feel like more than we can handle. We find that we are stuck in a thought process and don’t know our way out. There is a way through this. We may just need a different approach.
Anxiety can present itself through a broad range of symptoms. For the majority of the individuals I work with, anxiety can show up as chronic worry, ruminations or obsessive thoughts that interrupts their day-to-day functioning and negatively impacts their lives.
As I learned at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America’s conference earlier this year, the parents are also not alright.
As individuals age, maintaining physical strength becomes increasingly crucial for overall health and well-being. For people over 50, engaging in regular strength training offers a multitude of benefits that can enhance quality of life and longevity.
Building strength—particularly in the lower body and core—plays a crucial role in improving stability, coordination, and overall balance.
Whether you’re in your 20s or your 70s, the key is to train in a way that lets you move well for life. As Dr. Attia puts it, “Train today for the life you want to live decades from now.”
The biggest asset you have to offer others is yourself. When you are balanced, that balance is naturally communicated to those you are with.
Some people feel a deep low mood, while others feel flat or numb. There’s often a loss of motivation, trouble concentrating, guilt, an inability to experience pleasure, difficulty making decisions, and/or a sense of hopelessness - like you can’t imagine things getting better. For many, there’s also physical fatigue, appetite or sleep changes, or just this sense of emotional heaviness that makes it hard to function. It can also include experiencing suicidal thoughts.
In my practice I encourage my patients to build their own “tool box” for managing mental health symptoms, and for most of us these tools include some combination of: psychotropic medications; psychotherapy; lifestyle choices (such as exercise /meditation); and social connections / sources of relationship support. However - if there was one fundamental tool I could bestow to all of my patients - it would be the practice of self-compassion.
Sometimes, when we experience a confusing situation in our lives—a tricky misunderstanding, a missed flight, a difficult loss, or even positive news we weren't expecting—we can find ourselves in a nagging bind…
Things are challenging for most of us these days—both personally and globally. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. It’s even more difficult when we think we are alone.
Anxiety can present itself through a broad range of symptoms. For the majority of the individuals I work with, anxiety can show up as chronic worry, ruminations or obsessive thoughts that interrupts their day-to-day functioning and negatively impacts their lives.
When it comes to women and strength training—especially women over 50—the myths run deep and wide.
Your energy, vitality, and health are linked to what you take in each day. If your digestion isn’t functioning well, this can affect your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Desire is not our enemy. In fact, without desire, no dream is born, no business is started, no family is built. We should learn how to handle it with clarity and balance…
It's certainly quite surprising for most of us to discover that a physical modality [Breema] can have such a direct, immediate, and enormous impact on our mental and emotional health…
If you feel like your memory isn’t what it used to be, you are not alone! We are all overloaded pick up the phone in the morning, so much flashes before our eyes—it’s no wonder that we retain very little of it.
