
How Nutrition Can Positively or Negatively Affect Your Mental Health
685 words|3.4 min read|What recovery practices come to mind when you see or hear the phrase, “mental health”? Maybe you think of traditional modalities like counseling and behavioral [...]

A Lonely Person’s Guide to Fostering Joy This Holiday Season
797 words|4 min read|Even the most joyful holiday can be tinged with sadness, and even in a crowd of people, you can still feel entirely alone. Sometimes the [...]

Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health: What to Expect During a Day of Treatment
974 words|4.9 min read|If you’ve ever switched schools or moved somewhere new, you understand the anxious feeling of starting treatment for the first time. A new environment, new [...]

How the 5 Stages of Grief Affects Your Mental Health
888 words|4.4 min read|Letting go of someone you love can be one of the most painful, challenging, and stressful things we, as people, must experience in this lifetime. [...]

Sustainable Recovery for Bipolar Disorder
834 words|4.2 min read|Living with bipolar disorder can be an isolating experience, but it doesn’t have to be. In fact, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, [...]

Finding Balance With Your Emotions
771 words|3.9 min read|Living an emotional life is part of being human. Still, there seems to be a split between camps: those who overemphasize the role of emotions [...]

Your Lifestyle Can Boost Mental Health
850 words|4.3 min read|In this busy and restless age, it’s more important than ever to pay a little extra attention to our mental health. When burnout, exhaustion, and [...]

How Does Childhood Trauma Affect Adulthood?
980 words|4.9 min read|It's a fact of life that our childhood experiences shape who we are as adults. The language we learned, the neighborhood we lived in, the [...]

What Can I Do for Sexual Assault Victims?
976 words|4.9 min read|We all want to help our friends when they struggle or need support. Maybe you’ve helped a friend move from one apartment to another or [...]

What Does PTSD Recovery Look Like?
765 words|3.8 min read|Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur in any individual following the experience of intense distress. Often, PTSD is associated with veterans who have lived through [...]

Your Guide for How to Help Someone with Body Dysmorphia
770 words|3.9 min read|No one wants to see a friend suffer. When you have a loved one who is challenged by body dysmorphic disorder, you may feel helpless watching [...]

Is Mental Illness Hereditary?
347 words|1.7 min read|Can Mental Illness Be Passed Down? Mental illness can sometimes run in families. Those who have a family member with mental illness may be slightly [...]

Knowing When to Seek PTSD Treatment
892 words|4.5 min read|Like other mental health disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) looks different from person to person. Many may experience the same traumatic situation, but many might [...]

What Is a Dehydration Headache?
597 words|3 min read|Dehydration headaches are one of the most common types of headaches because they can affect anyone, but they’re not described often in the medical literature. [...]

Show Yourself Some Love with Self-Care
400 words|2 min read|Showing Yourself Some Appreciation With Valentine’s Day around the corner, love is in the air! What better time than now to show yourself a little [...]

Positive Affirmations for Self Love
407 words|2 min read|Building a Healthier Self-Image with Positive Affirmations As the saying goes, we are our own worst critics—but with a shift in perspective, we can learn [...]
