Engage in this progressive muscle relaxation exercise to create more mindfulness, stillness, and calm anxiety. This technique can be used in many different scenarios, whether stress is affecting you, you’re having trouble sleeping, or simply require a mindfulness exercise to help soothe your anxiety.

September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, an important effort to acknowledge by NAMI. Mental health difficulties affect those of all ages. It is important that we help everyone we know to be more aware of the subject of suicide and better understand how mental health resources may be helpful in preventing this kind of tragedy.

Use mosaic tiles to create your own patterns, or follow one of the examples.

Order shapes of glass or other material to make your own mosaic patterns. If you don’t have tiles, you can use pieces of paper or simply color in the design on the page itself. Use this time creating your patterns to relax, focus on mindfulness, and bring your stress levels down.

September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month, a time for advocates and supporters of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to raise awareness both nationally and locally about efforts to fight blood cancers including Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and Myeloma.

An easy way to prevent injury by strengthening your muscles over time.

Use these simple instructions to help relieve tension and neck pain over time. Rotate, tilt, nod, press, and side press once a day!

Healthy aging month takes place in the month of September every year. During this month, we aim to help raise awareness about living a healthy lifestyle so more individuals can look forward to growing older. During the past year, all of us, and particularly our elder population have faced unexpected challenges. It is important now, more than ever, that we address and take a proactive approach to aging.

World Alzheimer’s Month falls in September each year. During the month, advocates aim to create more awareness about the disease. Because Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are common and affect over 50 million people around the world, it is important to raise awareness of how to recognize symptoms, risk factors involved, and the current treatment available for individuals.

It’s easy to follow the numbers and create your colorful work of art. Practicing this activity helps develop stronger attention skills, concentration, and focus. Painting or coloring addresses visual discrimination and recognition. Keeping up with this practice can also help individuals improve their short-term memory.

Every month in September, we observe prostate cancer awareness month. Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer occurring in men aside from skin cancer. In many cases, individuals do not present any symptoms until cancer has progressed. It is important that we promote awareness about prostate cancer and prostate cancer screenings to help individuals with early detection and overall prevention.

The end of summer represents harvest season and preparation for change. In this activity, participants “tend to their garden,” collecting garden-related items through movements, problem-solving, and communication tasks.

It works well for individuals or groups, in community centers, or at home.

Gastroparesis is an important health issue to raise awareness about, particularly during the month of August. Promoting a better understanding of this issue and how it can affect an individual’s quality of life may enable more people to find treatment options and learn strategies to prevent symptoms from worsening.

With busy schedules and typical duties we have in life as a family member, parent, sibling, grandparent, or friend, it can sometimes be difficult to make time for self-care. Engage your own self-care routine in a fun way! Print out this bingo sheet to play on your own.

It is important that we understand vaccination and immunization facts to help us keep ourselves and our loved ones healthy and safe from preventable disease.

Stress can take a toll on the whole body physically, mentally, and emotionally. It is important to learn coping skills and ways you can manage stress on your own. For many people, it can be difficult to know what to do when you are in the middle of a stressful moment or feeling anxious.

During a prolonged stay at home or a change from going to work or school and then working or learning at home, routines can change sometimes be affected in a negative way. Habits are the main aspect of a routine, and developing good ones instead of negative can really make an impact on your daily life.

Check out one of our Therapy Tune-Up exercises this month to help you facilitate mindfulness, focus, and attention!

Over 8 million people live with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis. During the month of August, we draw attention to this disorder during Psoriasis Awareness Month.

One commonality all humans across the world share is providing care for babies and newborns. Breastfeeding is a natural process that our bodies go through to provide nourishment for new life, much like many other species on our planet.

For this month's Therapy Tune-Up, we are focusing on strengthening the rotator cuff muscles! It is easy to do and easy to maintain, for just 5 minutes a day to start.

Word searches can help improve vocabulary and spelling through practicing an enjoyable activity.