Forgiveness: Your Health Depends on It
Many people have misconceptions about what forgiveness really means—and they may eschew it. Others may want to forgive, but wonder whether or not they truly can. Forgiveness does not necessarily...
Mental Health Tips For Teachers
Every day, teachers interact with a wide variety of students, each with their unique personalities and challenges. In addition to the daily pressures of the job, this can often lead...
International Women’s Day: Make Your Mental Health A Priority
Every year on March 8th the world celebrates International Women’s Day. It is a celebration of women’s achievements, marking the continued strive for gender inclusion and equality. Many women give...
Strategies for Helping Kids Cope With Loneliness
Loneliness is not an abstract condition that affects only certain kinds of people. The truth is that feelings of loneliness can affect anyone—young, old, and in-between—and at any point in...
5 Powerful Tips for Overcoming Self-doubt
Self-doubt refers to feelings of uncertainty about certain situations, decisions, or aspects of life. It’s normal to feel self doubt and it can stem from things like anxiety disorders, childhood...
How to Really Rest?
Rest and mental health are intimately connected. People who are trying to improve their mental health often think about things that make them feel relaxed. Taking time to slow down,...
Effective Problem Solving Strategies
Problems that don’t go away can take a toll on our well-being. Left unsolved, a small problem can become a big problem. We end up feeling frustrated, stressed or maybe...
Create Healthy Interdependence Relationship
We, as humans, crave and thrive on deep, meaningful connections. Balancing act of building a strong relationship without losing yourself is tricky to achieve. Healthy dependency between partners is the...
Coping with Autism as an Adult
An adult who experiences ASD symptoms may face many difficulties throughout his live. Having an undiagnosed ASD adds to these difficulties as autistic adult often don’t understand why he feels...
Why Quitting Smoking is Worth the Effort?
Smoking is a highly addictive behavior that can be difficult to quit. And like other addictions, smoking is maintained by powerful reinforcing mechanism that allow a person to mask, escape...
The Power of the Morning Routine
For some, morning time can be challenging, let alonefinding the motivation to get out of bed and be productive all day. Though it is easy to find tons of morning...
How Volunteering Improves Your Mental Health?
Volunteering offers vital help to people in need, worthwhile causes, and the community, but the mental benefits can be even greater for you, the volunteer. The right match can help...
Can Abandonment Issues Be Resolved?
Abandonment trauma can be defined as the behavior and emotional response that someone has as a result of experiencing severe neglect or harm. It can happen at any time in...
Tips For Coping With Health Anxiety
Health anxiety involves intense anxiety and worry about one’s health, usually to the point that it produces significant distress or interferes with one’s day-to-day functioning. If you are feeling unwell...
How to Support Your College Student?
Transitioning from high school to college is an exciting and empowering experience for your child. He will need more support as he/she grows, develops, and matures into an independent young...
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
Schizoaffective disorder is a chronic mental health illness that affects thoughts, emotions, and actions. Those with schizoaffective disorder often experience both psychotic episodes and mood instability. An accurate diagnosis relies...
Recovering From Childhood Trauma
Childhood trauma is a traumatic event that happens at the age of 17 or younger before you become an adult. Your body is remarkably resilient and can make heroic attempts...
Managing your Mental Health on Valentine’s Day
Many of us look forward to celebrating the love in our life on Valentine’s Day. Others dread it. Valentine’s Day can bring feelings of happiness and joy for those in...
Can Delusions Be Cured?
Delusions are defined as “strongly held beliefs that are not amenable to logic or persuasion and that are out of keeping with their holder’s background. Although they need not necessarily be...
Insensitive Comments: Ideas on how to respond
Let’s face it: some people have the ability to play dumb, socially. In other words, their abilities to filter what comes out of their mouth is little to non-existent. Reacting...
