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Mental Matters: What is the Continuum of Mental Health
“Mental health exists on a continuum.” These days, more and more Instagram posts are saying something along these lines and I agree wholeheartedly. But it does beg the question: what […]
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Mental Matters: Relationship Dynamics and Winter Blues
Ushered in by a clusterfuck of financial stress and family obligations, winter leaves countless people feeling discouraged, defeated, and alone. In the psychology/self-help realm, there are plenty of articles […]
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Mental Matters: Spiritual Bypassing
Ask any spiritual teacher, philosopher, or psychotherapist worth their salt, and they’ll tell you the same thing: life is painful. And they’ll also tell you that for some reason or […]
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Mental Matters: Defining Depression
Depression sucks. One minute you could be completely fine — and then you just don’t want to try anymore. Or it’s been there for as long as you can remember: […]
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Mental Matters: Regulating Your Emotions like a Pro
For most of my life, I had no idea what emotions were. Growing up, they were treated as a sign of weakness to be avoided at all costs. Since suppressing […]
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Mental Matters: What Is Therapy, and What Do Therapists Do?
A part of me dies every time someone asks if my job is just to sit there and “listen to people talk about their problems.” That’s actually not what therapy […]
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Mental Matters: A Leap Of Faith
For the first 20 years of my life, I stayed safely within my comfort zone. After gathering two decades’ worth of data, I can conclusively say that it was an […]
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Mental Matters: ABC’s of Managing Stress, Please?
If you’re a human being with a pulse, the chances are pretty good that you’ve been overwhelmed by sadness, anger, or anxiety at some point. And while it’s not possible […]
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Mental Matters: Practicing Mindfulness
Mindfulness has reached uber fad status in the field of mental health. It also happens to be one of those words we throw around a lot without ever really defining. […]
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Mental Matters: Finding Acceptance
Most people I meet seem to think that practicing acceptance will make you either a guilty bystander who colludes with injustice, or a slack-jawed couch potato with drool running down […]
