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Mental health

Mental health is just as important as physical health. Allow our contributors to give expert guidance and tips on steps you can take to improve your mental well-being. Learn about different therapeutic approaches and self-care practices that can support your mental health.

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How Survival Mode Shapes Who You Think You Are

At some point, survival stops being something you do and starts being something you are. Not because you chose it, but because it worked. The ability to stay alert, self-sufficient, emotionally controlled...

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When Life Becomes The Curriculum and the Heart of Emotional Resilience

Five years ago, my life changed in an instant. One moment, I was moving confidently through my career as a plant-based chef. The next, a life-altering accident forced me to rebuild, physically...

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Riding the Waves Toward Healing and Recovery with Surf Therapy

The ocean has long been seen as a place of peace and renewal. In recent years, surf therapy has gained recognition as a powerful form of treatment that combines the therapeutic value of the sea with...

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How Stress and The Nervous System Make Pain Louder

There is a point a person with chronic pain eventually reaches, often quietly, often with confusion, and sometimes with shame, is this in my Head? Does stress make my pain worse? Most people are taught...

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Is Fear Quietly Running Your Life?

How unconscious fear shapes the body and how embodied healing returns power and life force. Fear is not a flaw. It is not a weakness. Fear is information. When we allow ourselves to acknowledge fear...

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What Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Really is and What It is Not

We often hear the term OCD thrown around in ways that are completely misaligned with what it actually is. Individuals will say things like, “I am so OCD,” or “If you walked into my room and saw how neat...

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Following Trends vs. Following Your DNA – Which Approach Leads to Better Wellness?

What if the secret to your health has been hidden in your DNA all along? The silent code guiding your every move. How genetics may explain what lifestyle advice often cannot.

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Why Emotional Maturity Requires Trust Instead of Self-Monitoring

Many people reach a powerful moment of insight through a book that resonates, a breakthrough in therapy, language that finally explains their patterns, such as attachment styles, boundaries, nervous...

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4 Survival Patterns as a Child that Shape Adult Behavior and Parenting

Explore four emotional survival patterns shaped by childhood emotional handling, how they influence adult behavior and parenting, and science‑backed tools to support regulation and healing.

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Mental Health is Not a Diagnosis It Is a Lifelong Process

In a world facing rising anxiety, burnout, loneliness, and grief, mental health care is at a crossroads. Traditional systems remain fragmented, reactive, and crisis-oriented, often disconnected from...

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The First In-the-Moment Nervous System Support for Real Life

Why more moments at Baseline quietly transform your mind, body, and relationships. Most of us are very good at being “always on.” We keep going. We stay professional. We deliver. We adapt.

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Overcoming the Painful Legacy of Childhood Abuse

Therapy can be one of the most challenging and heart-wrenching experiences, yet people endure it because they hope for a better future, even though it requires facing deep pain and uncomfortable truths.

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It’s All About Passion – The Emotion That Can Take You From Feeling Ordinary to Becoming Extraordinary

Passion can be defined in many different ways. It can be described as a great, passionate love between lovers. It can be a way of talking about your hobby. Often, the emotion of passion is...

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Pattern Interrupts That Actually Work When You’re Spiraling

Spiraling doesn’t usually announce itself politely. It shows up as racing thoughts, shallow breath, emotional overwhelm, or a sudden sense that everything is too much right now. Logic disappears.

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The Leadership Superpower No One Taught You

Your nervous system is shaping your leadership more than you realize. Colleagues. Has your leadership stopped feeling steady and started feeling heavy? It’s not because you’re doing it wrong.

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Healthy Love, Unhealthy Love, and the Stories We Inherited

Many people come into therapy asking some version of the same question, “Why do I keep ending up in relationships that hurt?” Or more quietly, “Why does love feel so hard?” These questions aren’t...

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