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.
A Disabled Day – Navigating Life with Disability and Medication
In this deeply personal and unvarnished account, the author explores the intense realities of living with a disability. From the early morning battles of medication routines to the emotional toll of...
How to Cope with the Emotional Impact of Chronic Grief and Uncertainty
The start of a new year is often framed as a time of hope, fresh beginnings, and looking ahead. For many people living with rare disease, and for the parents and carers who support them, January can feel...
The Real Reset for the New Year Isn’t Productivity, It’s Emotional Capacity
Every January, the same pattern shows up among high-performing professionals. It’s not a lack of ambition or direction, it’s the quiet exhaustion of carrying work stress into every part of their life.
What CEOs Need to Know About Depression
Your most expensive risk may be the one you don’t name. I’m in a therapy session with a CEO. Confident voice. Polished story. Composed presence. From the outside, it may appear that nothing is...
A Soul-Based Model for Deep, Integrative Change
Have you ever had one of those recurring patterns in life that feels like your nemesis? Maybe it’s a particular relationship dynamic that repeats itself no matter who your partner is. A stuck emotional...
5 Ways Music Can Support the Grieving Process
Emotions rarely arrive with perfect languaging. Instead, they arrive as sensation. We see this with children all the time. Tantrums. Hysterical crying. Or even hysterical laughter. It is the same for young...
Breaking Cycles – The Psychology of Inherited Patterns in Modern Parenting
Many parents find themselves reacting in ways they never intended, repeating patterns they swore they would break. This article explores the psychology behind inherited behaviors, generational trauma...
A Journey Through the Hypothetical & The Literal Power of the Ripple Effect
“Imagine, if you will, for a moment,” my professor said, “that at the very same moment, at the exact same time, the entire world’s population, all 8 billion people, stopped what they were doing and...
Holistic Mental Health Tips for Preparing for and Transitioning Into Parenthood
Parenthood is a transformative journey that begins long before the baby arrives. The mental and emotional shifts that occur during pregnancy and early parenthood are profound and deserve as much...
A Different Way to Begin the New Year – Practising Acceptance
As the year begins, many of us feel a strong desire to make a change, whether to improve our personal or professional lives or to fix what feels broken. We are eager to set new goals without...
The Grief No One Names – Collective Trauma in the Iranian Diaspora
I feel it as a tight, bottled-up anger that has nowhere to go, and at the same time, a strange dissociation. I scroll. I pause. I scroll some more, part of me dysregulated and part of me numb. My body...
Why Caregivers and Parents Burn Out Even When They’re Resilient
Caregiver burnout doesn’t usually start with collapse. It begins quietly, often in people who are deeply committed, capable, and loving. Many caregivers burn out not because they don’t care enough...
Healing Yourself with Freestyle Painting
If you’re stuck in lower emotions, like depression, grief, anger, or fear, there’s an easy way back to better feelings, freestyle painting. The grouch in you might shrug, but consider freestyle painting as...
Why Pain Doesn’t Mean You’re Broken and How to Use It to Reclaim Your Life
A woman once sat across from me in my office, her voice barely steady as she said, “I feel like I’m shattered into pieces. Who would ever want me like this?” Many of us know that feeling.
How Your Body Can Heal Anxiety, Not Just Manage It
I saw them walking toward me and told myself this was the moment to say something, anything. But as soon as we got close, my eyes dropped on their own. I walked past in silence and replayed the scene...
