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.
Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Care About – An OT Guide to Following Through (Autistic Lens)
Every January, we do the same thing. We set a long list of goals, feel motivated for about five minutes, and then put everything off until Monday. And if January 1st happens to land on a Monday?
The Secret Gifts of a Collapsed Nervous System
It’s no secret that living a full, meaningful life requires tending to your nervous system. But as conversations around regulation have become more mainstream, they’ve also become more...
The Weight of Silence – Inherited Trauma Across Generations
Trauma is often imagined as an event that happens to an individual, a single wound inflicted by circumstance, loss, or abuse. But what happens when trauma does not end with one life? What...
The Internal Dialogue of Your Inner Villain and Your Inner Valiant
As humans, our instinct to adapt and make sense of the world has shaped our evolution and our survival. On a smaller scale, each of us goes through our own personal evolution throughout life.
High-Functioning Anxiety Is Not a Personality Trait
High-functioning anxiety is often mistaken for a personality trait. It can look like competence, drive, and reliability, qualities that are praised and rewarded. But beneath the surface, this pattern is...
Emotional Wounds Are No Different From Physical Wounds
What if I told you that the pain you can’t see, the ache in your chest after betrayal, the heavy fog of grief, the relentless loop of fear, cuts just as deeply as a knife? Left unattended, these...
Why Diabetes Is Really a Broken Heart Waiting to Happen
Do you personally know someone living with diabetes? A parent, a sibling, a close friend, or even yourself? For so many families, especially across Indo-Caribbean and South Asian communities, diabetes...
How Caregivers Can Truly Heal After the Goodbye – Trauma-Informed Support That Works
Have you ever stood in the quiet that falls after caregiving ends, not knowing who you are or how to move forward? Maybe you felt the world shift on without you, while your heart lagged in a silence that nobody...
Algorithms of Desire – Swipe, Reject, Repeat and The Psychology of Love and Lust in the Age of Dating Apps
You are desired. And yet, in the next moment, that desire evaporates. A message goes unanswered. A match disappears. Someone newer, brighter, instantly available replaces them. In the endless scroll of...
Why Relief Doesn’t Last for High-Functioning People
Many high-functioning people experience brief relief after therapy, retreats, or time away, only to feel anxiety or overwhelm return days or weeks later. This cycle isn’t a failure of effort or insight.
When the Values You Were Raised With No Longer Match the Life You’re Living
For a long time, I thought I knew exactly what my family stood for. I believed we shared the same values, the ones repeated in stories, in traditions, in the quiet expectations that shape a childhood.
From Japan to the Caribbean – Ancient Wisdom, Modern Minds, and the Psychology of Sustainable Living
At 28 years old, my life did not shift because of a casual decision or a passing curiosity. The change happened when I won a scholarship to Japan. This gave me the chance to live, study, and fully...
ARFID – A Misunderstood Eating Disorder and Why It Deserves Better
For years, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) has lived in the shadows of the eating disorder landscape. It is often described as “picky eating,” dismissed as a childhood phase, or...
Why Parents of Children With Chronic Conditions Are Exhausted, And It’s Not Their Fault
Chronic illness, ADHD, and autism place families under sustained stress that modern systems were never designed to support. Why parental exhaustion is not a personal failure, but a predictable outcome...
Loneliness Epidemic – How Isolation is Redefining Social Health in the UK
Loneliness is no longer just a private feeling; it has become a public health concern. Across the UK, millions report feeling isolated, disconnected, or unsupported. The Office for National Statistics.
