The ADHD-PMDD Connection: What Many Women Don't Realize
For many women with ADHD, there are certain days each month when focus disappears, emotions feel bigger, and routines that usually work suddenly don't. Learn how hormonal changes, estrogen, dopamine, and PMDD can influence ADHD symptoms—and why recognizing the pattern can be the first step toward feeling like yourself again.
What Curiosity Can Teach Us About Mental Health
What if the first step toward understanding yourself isn't having all the answers—but asking better questions? This reflection explores how curiosity can replace self-judgment and create space for understanding.
The Things We Miss When We're Just Trying to Get Through the Day
We spend so much of life focused on responsibilities, deadlines, and what's next that we stop noticing the small moments happening around us. A spider on a branch. A frog in the mud. A conversation with someone we love. Sometimes slowing down doesn't change our circumstances—it changes what we're able to see.
The Mental Exhaustion of Late-Diagnosed ADHD in Women
Many women with ADHD spend years believing they are simply anxious, disorganized, overly emotional, or “bad at adulthood” without realizing how much energy they are using just to stay on track. In this reflective piece, Tannia Salazar, APRN explores the mental exhaustion, emotional overwhelm, masking, perfectionism, and internalized shame that often accompany late-diagnosed ADHD in women.
Finding Joy Again When Life Feels Emotionally Flat
Life can start feeling emotionally flat when the brain spends too much time focused on stress, survival, responsibilities, and simply “getting through the day.” In this reflective piece, Tannia Salazar, APRN, FNP-BC explores how chronic mental overload can quietly disconnect people from joy, creativity, and the parts of themselves that once felt alive — and how healing sometimes begins by slowly reconnecting with life again through small, grounding moments.
🌿 What is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)?
Learn more about Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), including common emotional and physical symptoms, how it differs from PMS, and when to seek psychiatric support. Thoughtful mental health insights from Rooted in Serenity Behavioral Health in Connecticut.
🌿 Why is My Anxiety Worse at Night
Many people feel their anxiety spike the moment the world gets quiet. If your nights feel heavier, faster, or more overwhelming than your days, you’re not alone. This blog explores why anxiety often worsens at night — and how small, calming shifts can help you sleep with more ease and less fear.
🌿 When the Year-End Rush Makes Your Anxiety Spike (Finding Calm When Everything Feels Urgent)
As the year winds down, pressure often rises — and anxiety can spike right along with it. This piece explores why the end of the year feels so overwhelming and offers gentle, practical ways to slow your mind, steady your body, and move through this season with more ease and clarity.
How Watercolor Supports Anxiety Healing (A Gentle Mindfulness Exercise)
At Rooted in Serenity Behavioral Health, we provide compassionate psychiatric medication management and incorporate holistic interventions — including watercolor mindfulness — as gentle tools to ease anxiety. This simple practice helps you slow down, breathe, and reconnect with your calm, with each layer of paint mirroring the natural pace of healing.
🍁 Coping with Holiday Stress and Family Dynamics
The holidays can bring both joy and overwhelm. Tannia Salazar, APRN provides trauma-informed strategies to manage holiday stress, set boundaries, and protect your peace this season.
🍂 Why We Feel Drained This Time of Year
As the days grow shorter, many of us feel our energy fade. Learn gentle, trauma-informed ways to care for your mood and body through the seasonal shift.
Beyond the Winter Blues: Holistic Ways to Ease Seasonal Affective Disorder
As daylight shortens, many adults across Connecticut notice a dip in mood or energy. At Rooted in Serenity Behavioral Health, we take an integrative approach to Seasonal Affective Disorder—combining evidence-based psychiatric medication management, light therapy, and whole-person care to help you feel balanced again.
🌿 Now Accepting HUSKY Health (CT Medicaid) — In-Person & Telehealth Psychiatry in Connecticut
Rooted in Serenity Behavioral Health is now credentialed with HUSKY Health (Connecticut Medicaid) — expanding access to compassionate, trauma-informed psychiatric care for adults across Connecticut.
Tannia Salazar, APRN, offers telehealth appointments statewide and in-person visits in Middlebury, CT, providing evidence-based medication management for anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma-related concerns.
🌿 What to Expect at Your First Psychiatric Evaluation
Your first psychiatric evaluation is an opportunity to discuss your mental health goals, history, and symptoms in a supportive, trauma-informed space. At Rooted in Serenity Behavioral Health, Tannia Salazar, APRN, provides compassionate psychiatric care for adults across Connecticut — offering both telehealth and in-person appointments in Middlebury to help you begin your healing journey with confidence.
Now Offering In-Person Appointments in Middlebury on Tuesdays
Rooted in Serenity Behavioral Health now offers in-person psychiatric appointments every Tuesday in Middlebury, CT, alongside statewide telehealth. Whether you prefer face-to-face connection or virtual convenience, care remains trauma-informed, bilingual, and grounded in calm. Learn how Tuesday visits work, what to expect, and how to request your secure portal invite.
Trauma-Informed Telehealth: Creating Safety & Trust Online
Telehealth makes care more accessible — but accessibility isn’t enough. Learn how trauma-informed telehealth builds safety, trust, and empowerment for adults in Connecticut.
Trauma-Informed Psychiatric Medication Management: How It Looks in Practice
Starting medication can feel overwhelming. Trauma-informed care ensures the process is safe, transparent, and collaborative. Learn how the five principles of trauma-informed care shape prescribing and follow-up at Rooted in Serenity Behavioral Health.
Continuity of Care in Mental Health: A Trauma-Informed Perspective
When a provider is no longer available, it can feel unsettling. Continuity of care in mental health ensures trust, safety, and progress. Learn how Tannia Salazar, APRN, founder of Rooted in Serenity Behavioral Health LLC supports smooth transitions and keeps you grounded in your healing journey.
What Trauma-Informed Care Really Means (and Why It Matters)
Trauma-informed care means more than just a buzzword — it’s about creating safety, trust, and empowerment in every step of treatment. Learn the 5 principles of trauma-informed psychiatric care and how they shape patient-centered healing with Tannia Salazar, APRN.
Understanding Non-Stimulant ADHD Medications: A Helpful Alternative
Stimulants aren’t the only option for ADHD. Non-stimulant medications may be a better fit for adults with anxiety, sleep issues, or intolerance to stimulants. In this blog, Tannia Salazar, APRN explains how non-stimulants work, what to expect, and who they may help most.