In the Media

Quotes and Interviews

What Is Happiness? Expert Insight into the True Meaning of a Happy Life (Partners in Fire)

How to Be Happy: 50+ Tips for a Healthier, Happier Life (Partners In Fire)

6 Strategies to Improve Your Self Talk (Experience Life by Life Time)

Hidden Gems: Meet Ashley Smith of Peak Mind: The Center for Psychological Strength (VoyageKC)

How to Make New Year’s Resolutions that Have a Better Chance of Sticking (BestProducts.com)

This Is What Your Therapist First Notices About You (The Healthy)

20 Weird Phobias that Prove Fear Can Be Truly Unpredictable (Partners in Fire)

Suicide Attempt Survivor Shares Advice on How to Stay Alive for People in Crisis (Today.com)

8 Ways to Cope If You Feel Like Giving Up (PsychCentral)

How to Practice Self-Care for Caregivers (Carex)

How Authenticity and Vulnerability Pay Off and Help You Win Personally and Professionally (Authority Magazine)

How Simplifying & Decluttering Your Life Can Make You Happier (Authority Magazine)

Behind the Scenes: The TEDx Talk Process for Speakers (JenGilhoi.com)

InterOperate Smart Home Sponsors Business Leadership Events at Queens University of Charlotte (User Walls)

Peak Mind:The Center for Psychological Strength - Ashley Smith (Go Solo by Team Subkit)

What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety? (Psycom)

What to Know When You're Newly Diagnosed With Depression (WebMD)

Why Do People Avoid Mental Health Treatment? (Thriveworks)

11 Ways to Respond to a Mean or Toxic Text Message (wikiHow)

How to Not Worry when You're in Trouble at School (wikiHow)

How to Get over Your Fear of Sharks (wikiHow)

How to Believe in Someone (wikiHow)

How to Deal with Psychosomatic Illness (wikiHow)

How to Express Sadness in Text (wikiHow)

Does Holiday Stress Seem Even Stressier This Year? Here’s How to Combat It (In Kansas City Magazine)

America’s Germaphobes Were Ready for This - and Have Been for Too Long (Washington Post)

Expert Interview: Managing Your Emotions During Self-Isolation (RentCafe)

If Anxiety Is Keeping You Up At Night, Experts Say These 11 Things Can Help You Sleep (Elite Daily)

Regaining Sight of Her Happiness After Blindness (Folks)

Can Mindfulness & Modeling With Our Kids Overcome Impatience? (Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs)

How to Parent a Child with Selective Mutism (Simplemost)

Exposure Therapy Helps Combat Phobias (The Free Lance Star)

The Anxious Mind (The University Daily Kansan)

Fear Not, There Is Hope (The Chicago Tribune)

They Learned to Face Their Fears (Kansas City Star, print only)

A Cross to Bear (Kansas City Star, print only)

Authored Articles and Guest Posts

How to Stop Pulling or Picking (Anxiety and Depression Association of America)

Gratitude - A Mental Health Game Changer (Anxiety and Depression Association of America)

How to Talk About Suicide, from a Psychologist Who Lost a Loved One (Anxiety and Depression Association of America)

What I Wish Everyone Knew About Suicide (Anxiety and Depression Association of America)

Rethinking “Mental” Health (Anxiety and Depression Association of America)

I See Your Pain (Shala Nicely’s Aha Moments)

How to Beat the Blue Monday (and Beyond) Blues (Anxiety and Depression Association of America)

Why Telling a Child “Don’t Worry, Everything is Fine” Is Likely to Backfire (In Kansas City Magazine)

My Suicide Notes (Anxiety and Depression Association of America)

Crushing Goals and Finding Success: 6 Lessons from My First 10 K (Thrive Global)

The Mental Filter that Will Make Your World Better (Thrive Global)

A Key to Happiness: Social Connection (Thrive Global)

If You Want to Be Happy, Expect Less (Thrive Global)

My Suicide Notes (Thrive Global)

Understanding Your Inner Workings (Thrive Global)

Life Isn’t Fair: How I Learned to Accept It and Let Go (Thrive Global)

The Happiness Cheat Sheet (Thrive Global)

Thriving or Dying? A Question of Social Soil (Thrive Global)

The Blame Game: Why Being Right Doesn’t Always Make You Happy (Thrive Global)

The Secretly Damaging Word You’re Using and What to Do about It (Thrive Global)