COVID-19 – Basic Steps Mental Health

How Did This Happen?

Scott Alpert — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:30:09 +0000

You’ve heard the statement, “What’s the worst thing that can happen?” Instead, why not focus on the best thing that can happen? You see, when we focus on the worst things, we create the worst things. The flip side can bring to you your dreams — and it sure did for me. At Basic Steps […]

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Boosting Your Immunity

Scott Alpert — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:00:04 +0000

After recently traveling and being with a lot of people, it was a different experience from my familiar distancing, masking up, and isolating. For me, like many, the Covid experience was a lot of isolating and the social thing was an adjustment. It seems that the reports I was hearing was being around others was […]

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My Battle with Covid

Scott Alpert — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 01:52:27 +0000

My have I changed. As a child, we never talked about the things that were going wrong with us. We put on the “I’m Fine” mask and pretended to be great. To my family, outward appearances were very important. When Covid first came on, a client came in, got the whole staff sick, and we […]

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Befriending Anxiety

Scott Alpert — Sun, 16 May 2021 21:24:35 +0000

This is a subject I hold true to my heart. This is what brought me to therapy and this road I am currently on. Is anxiety bad? No, far from it. Anxiety alerts the system that something is wrong. Anxiety is a great teacher if you are willing to learn from it. Oh yes, our society […]

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Feeling Giddy

Scott Alpert — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:21:26 +0000

Years ago, I had the privilege of being in a comedy group that performed in some of the top clubs in Hollywood. We would take the negative expressions in society and create new positive twists on them. This morning I laughed thinking about March Madness, where the team I grew up with had an amazing […]

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Stretching Your Comfort Zone

Scott Alpert — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:30:13 +0000

With the pandemic continuing and people basically sequestered at home, it is easy to get into repetitive habits that can be hard to break. After months of doing the same patterns, doing something different, to shake up the routine, can be difficult, but is an important part of maintaining good mental health. However, this takes […]

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Dig In… This Thing Ain’t Over Yet

Scott Alpert — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:03:17 +0000

Dig in, it is rumored that the restrictions from the COVID-19 Virus will be going on for 18-months. Because of this, it is best to adapt and change with the times. There is a great book named, “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson that may be a great guide for us to follow. In […]

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Coping with COVID-19

Scott Alpert — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:05:21 +0000

Did you ever believe this pandemic would go on so long? Isn’t it surreal to go shopping and seeing everyone masked up? I heard that in China they have monitors on people and anybody who has a temperature is whisked away to the hospital for a checkup. Their numbers are going down, ours aren’t. A […]

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Happiness During the Pandemic

Scott Alpert — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:36:08 +0000

As a therapist, I am always asking people who are going through difficult times to find happiness within. To discover what makes them happy, and then do that. For individuals who had a difficult childhood, I ask them what made them happy when they were a child and do that, through the use of the […]

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The Benefits of COVID-19

Scott Alpert — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:13:58 +0000

An article about the benefits of COVID? How could something that causes people to die, lose their job, their home, their freedom, and even their mobility be a good thing? When given a spiritual point of view, you may have a different vantage point. Spirituality, according to Alcoholics Anonymous is the belief in something greater […]

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