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.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in Psychiatric Care and Its Benefits for Evaluation and Treatment
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs offers a useful way to understand psychiatric patients as whole people whose symptoms are shaped not only by inner conflict, but also by safety, stability, relationships, self-worth...
How 2026 Became a Yes Year
After a year marked by personal loss, career uncertainty, and overwhelming grief, one simple decision to say yes opened the door to healing, connection, and unexpected new beginnings. What...
Why Rushing Your Healing Might Be Keeping You Stuck in Survival Mode
The moment your life falls apart, the world wants to know what you’re going to do about it. People mean well. But almost immediately, the questions start. What’s next? What’s your plan? What are you going to...
Parents Don’t Need To Be Perfect, They Need To Be Regulated
Parenting today can feel incredibly overwhelming, especially in a world where parents are constantly exposed to advice, opinions, expectations, and pressure from every direction. Many parents are trying...
The Danger of a Blank Check Commitment and Why Mature Love Requires Boundaries
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."
What is the True Impact of Rare Disease and SEN on Therapy and Why Therapy Must Adapt
The conversation around mental health has advanced significantly in recent years. More people are accessing counselling, psychotherapy, and psychological support than ever before. Yet for many individuals...
Five Things Professionals Must Do to Give Grieving Children What They Really Need
By protecting children from grief, you actually take away the tools they need to cope with it. You do it out of love. That is the first thing I want to say before I say anything else. When an adult decides...
Why High-Performing People Are Running on Empty, and How to Reclaim Your Vitality
One day at work, my colleague told me that she hadn’t had any water, nor had she gone to the toilet the whole day, as if it was something to be proud of. Self-neglect must not be a badge of honour...
On Filling Yourself Up When You've Been Pouring Out for Decades
There's no place lonelier than among other people. I have rarely known anyone who has not felt, or doesn't currently feel, profoundly lonely. The successful ones. The married ones. The ones with...
What If Venting Anger Doesn’t Actually Release It?
Many people believe anger needs to be forcefully released. Scream into a pillow. Hit something. Rage it out. But if emotional release alone healed anger, we would feel better after venting, spiraling...
The Male Loneliness Crisis and Why 50 Million Men Have No One to Call
There is a moment from about a decade ago that I keep coming back to. I am in my mid-thirties, living in a beautiful Hollywood Hills apartment, scrolling through hundreds of phone contacts with a 102...
More Than Skin Deep and Why Eczema Keeps Coming Back, and What the Steroid Cream Never Addresses
Most people who live with eczema know the cycle intimately. A flare appears. A steroid cream is applied. Within days, the redness fades, the itch quietens, and the skin calms. Relief arrives, along...
Why Connection is The Medicine We Are Missing
We live in the most connected era in human history. We can reach someone on the other side of the world within seconds. We can build networks across continents, share our lives online, and stay connected...
Empathy in Psychiatry alongside Its Hidden Costs and the Path to Sustainable Practice
Empathy lies at the heart of psychiatry, enabling clinicians to connect deeply with patient’s suffering and guide them toward healing. Yet this vital tool carries hidden costs- emotional exhaustion, patient...
Self-Development is Not Self-Esteem Development
You have done everything society told you to do. That lingering sense of unfulfillment is not a sign of failure. It is a clue.
