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By: Nate Webster, IMH If there is one thing millennials deal with around the holidays, it is the passive-aggressive (or sometimes obviously aggressive) cross-examination and questioning of their life and career choices. Many millennials are dreading the question, “So what do you do for a living?” only to be met with blank stares when they try to explain that they are free-lancing, creating art or finding themselves. Holidays can be especially tough for millennials because it often feels more like a time to justify their existence than to celebrate family. So for those millennials reading this, let’s review some strategies for handling those inevitable periods of time during the holiday season when friends and family will prod at you about your life. 1.        Keep it simple : There are some old sayings, "Don’t throw pearls before swine or else they’ll trample them" and "Don’t give what is special to dogs or else they may turn around and bite ...

By Nate Webster, LMHC                Statistics tell us that Millennials are waiting much longer to get married. In 1963 the average age of a women for her first marriage was 21 and for men it was 23. Today it is 27 for women and 29 for men. Why are Millennials waiting so much longer to tie the knot?   Why Do They Wait So Long To Commit? Living Together: The first possibility is that cohabitation has sky rocketed since the 1960’s. Cohabitation is a massive component to marriage. Traditionally cohabitation was the major indication and benefit of those who were married compared to those who weren’t. It was a major reason people got married, so they could build a life together and have a home, because traditionally you weren’t living together before marriage. But since the 1970’s cohabitation has increased roughly 33%, to where today 66% of Millennials who get married are living together befo...

By Nate Webster, LMHC                Millennial romantic relationships are unique and different than romantic relationships of the past, but how exactly do they differ? In this two-part blog I’ll be talking about Millennial Romantic Relationships. There are many parts to the Millennial Romantic Relationship, so I’ll be focusing on two parts specifically. How Millennials connect romantically and why they wait so long to commit. Connecting Differently The Old Way: Millennials are connecting with their romantic partners in very unique ways. Traditionally people connected with each other because of the same status and social standing. Status had to do with things like someone’s skin color, with traditional beliefs saying people should marry someone of their same “race”. There was also the status of where someone was from, as neighborhoods and certain states traditionally represented a lot about who a person...

By Nate Webster IMH             Each Christmas people everywhere engage in dozens if not hundreds of different traditions. From drinking eggnog, to the mistletoe, to socks over the fire place and much, much, more. But how many of us actually know the origins of these timeless traditions? Learning about the history of traditions can be incredibly fun. It reminds us that we are apart of a very long and wonderful history of people celebrating the holidays. So lets look into the origins of three popular traditions. Eggnog: Many of us drink eggnog, and can’t resist its thick eggy goodness, but if we are honest, it is a strange drink. There are very few drinks similar to it, so where does this random eggnog drink come from. Well according to Elizabeth Dias of Time Magazine, “While culinary historians debate its exact lineage, most agree eggnog originated from the early medieval Britain “posset,” a hot, milky, ale-like drink...