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.
Why Getting Everything Done Will Never Feel Like Enough
I can feel the anxious buzzing in my body, and it’s not even 9 am. I sit staring at the computer screen, hands poised on the keyboard, feeling like the most incompetent, failing version of myself I've been...
How to Cope With Anxiety and Feeling Overwhelmed
Anxiety has a way of creeping into the edges of everyday life. Sometimes it arrives quietly: a racing mind, a tight chest, a sense that you are carrying too much. Other times, it hits like a wave...
Psychedelics in the Pharmaceutical Industry
For thousands of years, humans have lived harmoniously with nature; it’s how we survived. Just like the Sumatran orangutan, which crushes plant sap to treat facial wounds, nature has a cure for every ailment.
What the UAE's Booming Wellness Market Still Needs
There is a question I hear constantly from people living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), friends, colleagues, clients, strangers in conversation. It comes in many forms, but it always means the...
Medical Qi Gong to Heal Yourself and Others
Is Western medicine not working for you? Do you feel disempowered by your doctors, helplessly being sent to test after test, scan after scan? Are you being prescribed pharmaceutical drugs with...
Why Communication Problems Can Mimic Mental Health Symptoms, and How to Tell the Difference
Communication is not simply a skill you use well or poorly. It is the mechanism through which our core relational needs get met, or go unmet, every day, at home and at work. In 2014, trauma researcher...
What Happens Before Someone Needs Mental Health Leave?
Bloomberg recently reported on the increase in workers taking mental health leave and the difficulties employers are experiencing as a result. It's an important conversation, but I think we're starting it...
How to Remain Human on an Emotionally Fluctuant Mothership
Lately, I have found myself returning to an unusual image. Perhaps it comes from conversations with patients, perhaps from reading too much news, or simply from living through these curious times.
Why Self-Care Fails Most Mothers and What Actually Helps
You booked the massage. You took the bubble bath. You bought the journal with the gold lettering. You carved out 45 minutes on a Sunday morning while your partner handled the baby, and you sat in a...
Trauma is an Energetic Event and Here's How to Heal It
Most of us meet trauma on two fronts. There is our mind, the memories that replay, the stories we tell ourselves, and the beliefs that subtly wire in. There is our body, a nervous system that learns to be on...
The Science of Neuroplasticity and Why Your Brain is Never Finished
For many years, scientists believed the adult brain was largely fixed. Once we reached a certain age, it was assumed that our brain could no longer change significantly. We now know differently. Neuroplasticity is...
Why Understanding Nervous System Regulation First and Somatic Release After
I am going to start with a confession. Before I understood the language of the nervous system, before I knew what somatic meant, before I had any of the frameworks I now work with every day, I was a health...
Practices to Support Apathy in the Elderly
“I don’t care.” This is often the response I have heard from an elderly parent. It might be in response to a question about what they would like for dinner, where they would like to go for a walk, or...
Why It Is Important to Reclaim Your Power from Relational Trauma
We like to think that adulthood is a destination, a point we reach once we accumulate the right degrees, secure career stability or success, pay our taxes, and dress the part. But behind closed...
Rock Bottom Has a Basement – Why Surviving Was Only the Beginning
People talk about rock bottom as if it is a single place. You hit it, wake up, make a decision, and begin climbing. My experience was different. Every time I thought I had reached the bottom, I found...
