When You’re Not Being Heard
It is frustrating when you aren’t being heard in a relationship. Thankfully, we have options on how to handle this situation.
Future Care Minimizes Your Tougher Cycles
We all have down cycles, so why don’t we plan for them? Future care is about simple steps we can take when we are well to make our next down cycle easier.
Relationship Boundaries Make Us Stronger
Setting healthy relationship boundaries can be scary and intimidating. Yet, they are a crucial component of healthy relationships.
Pleasant Activities Are a Priority
Taking time for ourselves may feel selfish, but planning pleasant activities is a vital part of our self-care plan. All you need is five minutes!
Taming the Inner Critic for Good
When the inner critic who lives in our head speaks up, it can feel impossible to silence it. Here are some solid tips for shutting it down.
Social Media Detoxes Aren’t the Answer
Experts tell us that social media impacts our mental health negatively, but I have a different experience. Here’s what I do to make social media support me.
Sleep Hygiene Tips for Good Rest
Getting quality sleep is vital to our well being and especially for our mental health. Sleep hygiene plays a large role in getting quality sleep.
Dear Friends, This Is How to Support Me in a Depression
In a recent depression, my friends found ways to give me amazing depression support. Here are simple things they did for me, and a few they didn’t.
There Are Many Types of Depression
When we think of depression, we often think of it in generic terms. The reality is that depression is multi-faceted, and there are many types of depression.
Feel Alone in a Crowd? It’s Not Just You
“It’s probably just me” translates to a more powerful phrase: “I’m all alone.” This is the evil that hides in mental illness.
Empathy Means Not Saying “At Least”
How does the desire to express empathy manifest in our time of need? With the phrase “at least.” Intended to comfort, instead, it deepens our pain.
Love Is a Verb, Not a Noun: Seeing Everyday Love
I married unexpectedly well. One of the reasons our relationship works so well is that I learned a valuable lesson from my parents: Love is a verb, not a noun.
Does the Story Fit the Facts?
While taking emotional health classes, one of the phrases I would hear time and again was “Does the story fit the facts?” The reality is that we rarely see situations objectively, whether it’s due to viewpoint, confusion, or past experiences coloring our current situation.
Self-Validating Our Experiences Empowers Us
This is what self-validating is genuinely about: Acknowledging that the feelings we have are real and that they belong in the situation.
Validate Your Ticket, Please!
What do you do when the person who is responsible for caring for you…doesn’t? How do you learn to validate your experiences?
A Life Worth Living Is the Reward for Our Work
Doing the hard work of mental health recovery helps us do more than gain resiliency. It helps us build a better life. A life worth living.
They’re Symptoms, Not an Excuse
It can be easy to fall back on our symptoms and use them as an excuse for our behavior. Yet, it is our responsibility to manage those symptoms.
Self-Soothe in a Crisis Using the 5 Senses
When we hit a crisis, it’s awful. Our ability to respond normally is lost to us. Thankfully, we have options to self-soothe ourselves.
Wise Mind Keeps Us Balanced
We primarily have two mindsets: Reasonable Mind and Emotion Mind. Finding the balance between these two results in the third, ideal mindset: Wise Mind.
Accepting Help Is a Sign of Strength
Too often, we think of accepting help as a sign of weakness. In reality, knowing when and how to accept help from our network is a sign of strength.
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