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.
The Three T’s of Relationships and How to Audit Your Inner Circle and Protect Your Peace
Many relationships collapse under the weight of a beautiful yet deeply misunderstood ideal: unconditional love. We are often conditioned to believe that true devotion means staying "no matter what."
Stemming the Tide of the Hollow Echoes of Abuse
Trauma does not always begin with life-altering events, it can also take root through subtle, repeated experiences that quietly shape how we think, feel, and respond. This article explores how healing...
When You Hold Everything Together but Feel Alone in Your Own Relationship
The quiet erosion of intimacy can happen when a high-achieving woman carries too much for too long without anyone noticing what it is costing her. She is dependable to her colleagues, friends, family...
The Difference Between Anxiety, Intuition, and OCD Urgency
“I just have a gut feeling.” It’s a phrase I hear often in my therapy office. Sometimes it’s true. Sometimes it isn’t. The challenge is that anxiety, especially obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD),...
What Brokenness Taught Me About Hope and the Story Behind My Book
People often ask me why I wrote From Brokenness to Hope. The simple answer is that I never wanted anyone to believe they were beyond healing. But the real answer goes much deeper than...
Stop Holding Committee Meetings About Your Feelings
One of the quietest ways we lose ourselves isn't through a dramatic breakup, a betrayal, or one life-changing argument. More often, it happens gradually, through hundreds of seemingly insignificant moments...
Outdoor Counselling and What to Expect from Nature-Based Therapy
Outdoor counselling offers a gentle alternative to traditional indoor therapy by bringing the therapeutic process into nature. Through conversation, movement, silence, and connection with the natural world...
The Hidden Cost of Being Everyone's Person
In 2014, my husband's accident changed everything overnight. Within days, I became his caregiver, his translator to doctors and family, and the only steady thing in our household. What I didn't see coming...
Solid State and Removing the Noise
There comes a point where your brain stops fighting the world. Not because the world became quieter. Because you did. We live in a society that celebrates constant stimulation. Every notification demands...
Who Has the Right to Be a Victim?
Who has the right to know they have been harmed? Who has the authority to recognise someone as a victim? Who has the right to speak for a community? When medicine, advocacy, the law, and society...
Rediscovering Identity Beyond What You Do and Learning to Separate Worth From Productivity
For many years, if someone asked me who I was, I would have answered with a list. I am a speech pathologist, a business owner, a wife, a mother, and someone who helps. These answers are all true.
The Nervous System Crisis Nobody Talks About and Why Stress Goes Beyond the Mind
When people think about stress, they often imagine a busy mind, endless worries, and emotional overwhelm. Yet, according to many holistic health practitioners, stress is far more than a psychological...
Why Movement Reduces Anxiety, Improves Mental Health, and Increases Our Happiness
Psychotherapy, though irreplaceable, isn’t always the fastest or most accessible path to feeling better. This is because the key to its success is the quality and depth of the relationship between the...
Why There is No One-Size-Fits-All for Wellbeing
For decades, health has largely been measured by what is wrong with us. Blood pressure, cholesterol, body weight and disease markers have dominated conversations between clinicians and patients alike.
Merula Manifesto III – In the Name of Being Honest
Time after time, the same question resounds in my ear. "Sandra, how do people change so quickly when working with you?" Most of the time, I just smile. That gesture hides more than it shows. Not because...
