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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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If Someone Is Missing This Christmas – Set a Plate and Remember Them With Love

For many of us, it has been a tough year, physically, spiritually, financially, and emotionally. Christmas is typically a time for joy, celebration, and connection. It can be incredibly difficult to navigate when...

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Why Schizophrenia Needs a New Definition Rooted in Biology

As a number 1 on Amazon.com, in Psychiatry and Mental Health, and a schizophrenic, I wanted you to offer my insights regarding schizophrenia and plea for it to be classified only based on biological markers.

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Why Healing Takes Longer Than Motivation Culture Allows

We live in a culture that treats healing like a productivity project. Set the goal, do the work, optimize the tools, and expect results on a predictable timeline. And when that doesn’t happen, many people...

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The Executive Sun Strategy – Why High-Performing Men Are Failing Against UV Exposure

If you’re a senior leader, high achiever, CEO, or executive, your strategic mindset has guided companies, projects, and teams to success. But there is one ubiquitous risk most leaders overlook...

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From OCD Struggles to Lifelong Success – Building a Resilient Mindset

What if the same relentless mind that drives OCD compulsions could be reprogrammed to drive unstoppable success? At The Scoggan Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona, we’ve watched hundreds of...

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How the Hidden Gut-Brain Conversation Shapes Aging and Longevity

Most of us intuitively recognize the link between our gut and our brain. We talk about gut feelings, butterflies in our stomach, or gut-wrenching moments long before we ever learn the science behind them.

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Cognitive Behaviour – Our Thoughts, Our Future

If someone were standing in front of you right now and asked, “What would you like your future to be like?” How would you answer? Would your response be positive or negative? Hopeful or...

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Understanding Anger – What Lies Beneath The Fire

Anger is one of our most misunderstood emotions. It’s often labelled as destructive, volatile, or even shameful. Yet beneath its fiery surface, anger is simply information, a signal that something important...

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How Can We Better Manage Holiday Expectations and Reduce Our Stress?

The holiday season is often seen as a time of joy, family, and celebration. But for many, it is a period that can feel heavy with loneliness, stress, and unmet expectations. Whether you are navigating...

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Book Review – Only One Body by Dr. Matt Fontaine

In Only One Body, Dr. Matt Fontaine challenges the quick-fix mentality that dominates modern healthcare and invites readers to take a more informed, proactive role in their wellbeing. Drawing on decades...

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The New Stress Solution – Ancient Ayurvedic Wisdom for Modern Minds

Do you ever feel like the weight of the world has quietly climbed onto your shoulders and hitched a ride, uninvited, and suddenly you’re carrying more than you remember picking up? You’re not alone.

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The Hidden Psychological Impact of Navigating the Healthcare System

Most people think the hardest part of living with a rare disease, or caring for someone who does, is the condition itself. But for many families, the real emotional toll comes from something else entirely...

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From Diagnosis to Advocacy – Two Women,Two Journeys, One Message

Most people can recall moments of worry, lying awake wondering whether they locked the front door or replaying a conversation on loop to make sure they didn’t offend someone. These can be familiar...

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When the Tree Goes Up but the Heart Feels Quiet – Finding Meaning in a Season of Contrasts

The holidays glow brightly for many, yet for others, the lights illuminate a quieter kind of truth. Here’s how loneliness, loss, and love can coexist, and how to find comfort when the season feels still.

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The Role of Online Therapy in OCD Recovery

When I first began searching for help with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, therapy felt out of reach. The idea of walking into an office, sitting face-to-face with a stranger, and talking...

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What Is Mental Health? Toward a Philosophy of What We Are Actually Doing

We talk a lot about mental health. We talk about a “mental health crisis,” a “mental health epidemic,” mental health days, mental health apps, and mental health awareness. We have diagnoses, medications...

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