Helping Your Child Make Peace with School Anxiety
For some kids, school isn’t the safe, exciting place we hope it will be. Even in the early years, it can become a source of anxiety. You might notice the…
The Subtle Signs of Anxiety No One Talks About
It’s so important to do what you can to nourish your mental health, but sometimes, you need to first figure out what’s going on. For example, anxiety isn't always sweaty…
Simple Ways To Beat & Overcome Stress & Anxiety
Stress and anxiety are a normal part of life but you also don’t want to let it get out of hand. It’s important that you pay attention to how you’re…
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6 Ways To Reduce Anxiety & Boost Your Mental Health
While some stress and anxiety are normal and healthy, too much of it at once can be debilitating. It’s important to recognize when you’re feeling more anxious than usual and…
How to Ground Yourself During an Anxiety Attack
One of the most frightening feelings to experience is strict anxiety. This is the type of anxiety that doesn't feel like it's letting go. So you don't feel like you…
Experiencing anxiety? Here are 12 Simple Calming Techniques
Anxiety can be common and something that many people experience. So if you’re feeling anxious and stressed out, you’re not alone. Millions of people experience some form of anxiety on…
Unlearning Learned Helplessness
On Saturday, I did the quintessential single-mom thing – I learned to mow my own lawn. I had put this off for a while. Why? Learned helplessness. Of course, I…
The Aftermath: Pressing Through the Pain to Find Healing After Trauma
Warning: traumatic birth story detailed below. Please read on with caution as the material or descriptions may be triggering. Every January, as his birthday draws near, I have a tightness…
A Work in Progress: My Journey with Perfectionism and Toxic Positivity
Toxic positivity is a mindset that I am very familiar with. For years, perfectionism and toxic positivity plagued my thoughts and inner world. This way of thinking affected how I…
My Journey Living with Anxiety and Depression for 30+ Years
It's been a long journey living with depression and anxiety for 30+ years. I remember with great and vivid detail my very first panic attack. I spent years trying to…
Feel What You Feel: Honoring Your Emotions
Many of us are never taught to feel what we feel. Instead, we're trained to ignore our emotions, to stifle them. We label them as "good" or "bad," celebrating the…
My Anxiety Relapse During the Covid Pandemic; and Navigating out of the Mental Mess
Something interesting happened during all this pandemic lock down and “new normal” we’ve been going through these past months. My new full time job went to part time. Two weeks…
An Intuitive Eating Introduction — And How It Can Change Your Life
There has been a lot of buzz in the media lately about intuitive eating. More people are waking up to the fact that the "wellness culture" so many Instagram influencers…
Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect: Embracing the Imperfect
There’s nothing quite like one’s first-ever blog post to serve up a big helping of vulnerability, is there? But really, the craving to be more vulnerable is largely what nudged…
Anxiety Almost Killed Me: Taking Back Control of My Life
Anxiety: Anxiety is a silent killer. For me, anxiety is something that has crept up in my life. I used to be carefree, and not have a worry in the…