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 Hope Is More Powerful Than Positive Thinking
When life becomes frightening or uncertain, we are often told to “stay positive”. It is usually said with love, but when you are facing cancer, grief, trauma or another life-changing experience, positivity...
Your Life Is Not Over Just Because It Didn't Go According to Plan
Have you ever looked around and felt like everyone else's life is moving forward while yours is falling apart? Maybe you've failed at something important. Maybe your relationship ended. Maybe...
Healing Heartbreak and 7 Steps to a Whole-Hearted State
Wondering why your heartbreak is hard to heal? In this article, a Chinese medicine practitioner introduces practical steps for reconnecting with your whole heart. This pathway explores how to use...
Is Your Workplace Mentally Healthy? Seven Signs Your Culture Needs Attention
A company can have a wellness programme, an Employee Assistance Programme, mental health talks, gym memberships and even a beautifully written wellbeing policy and still have an unhealthy or underdeveloped...
Merula Manifesto IV – My Heart Scares You, and a Gun Doesn't?
When a sociopathic, narcissistic mother raises you, you grow up entirely devoid of an identity. “You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me!” (Taylor, please, I just started typing, but you go, girl!).
Why Rest is Productive and Five Ways Slowing Down Can Move You Forward
In a world that celebrates constant motion, slowing down can feel like falling behind. But what if the moments you pause are the very moments that help you think more clearly, make better decisions...
The Griefs No One Sends a Card For
Walk down the sympathy card aisle, and you'll find a card for almost anything: the death of a father, a mother, a spouse, a beloved dog. Soft watercolors, gentle language, permission to grieve–all pre...
Who Are You Beneath the Patterns, Expectations, and Programming?
Who were you before you learned who you were supposed to be? Before the expectations, before the conditioning, before the experiences that taught you which parts of yourself were safe to reveal...
The Secrets My Brain Was Hiding and What a Cognitive Clarity Scan Revealed
How well do we really know our own brains? As a health professional who has spent years exploring my own patterns, behaviours and personal experiences, I thought I knew mine pretty well. I recognised...
What ARFID Reveals About Eating Disorders, the Mind–Body Connection, and Where Change Truly Begins
Over the past year, I have written about Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) as it deserves to be understood, not as picky eating or a passing phase, but as a complex, trauma...
When Physical Pain Isn't Physical, What's Left to Heal When the Wound is Gone?
The injury healed. The scans are clear. The consultant cannot find anything wrong. And the pain is still there. Or the range never returned fully. Or your gut still reacts to things it should have made...
The Hardest Kind of Grief is When Loss Has No Funeral
Some losses have no funeral. No one gathers. No flowers arrive. No ceremony marks the moment something ended. Yet, something has been lost. A dream you carried for years becomes impossible. Your body...
How to Easily Access Health and Wealth
Discover the power of touch. This resource is literally at your fingertips. In this article, you will learn why you should reach out and touch someone. Learn how to access your inner superpower and...
The Mental Health Cost of Constant Self-Improvement
In today’s workplace, self-improvement has quietly shifted from a personal choice to an unspoken expectation. Employees are encouraged to optimise their habits, upgrade their mindset, refine their productivity...
The Hidden Wound and Understanding Moral Injury in Everyday Life
Sarah has been a nurse for fifteen years. She has held countless hands and comforted countless families. But during the pandemic, she was ordered to keep a dying man's wife from entering his room...
