The Benefits of Meditation – 5 Ways Meditation Improves Your Life
Now, more than ever, it is important for you to preserve your mental health, and one way to do that, is to understand the benefits of meditation and start incorporating it into your life. Meditation is one of the easiest, most effective ways to relieve…
10 Reasons Why You Need To Take A Break From Life
Sometimes, in life we get so overwhelmed by things that we end up feeling stressed out, drained and utterly exhausted (both physically and mentally). As human beings, we are prone to wearing ourselves out with our busy lives and our drives to achieve so much;…
Understanding Your Love Language
I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently. In today’s messed up, sticky, chaotic world, we need to find better ways to relate to each other. And we need to learn how to ask for love from those around us. Your mental health is more…
10 Mental Health Benefits of Having a Pet
Bringing a pet home for the first time can be one of the happiest days of your life! And why wouldn’t it be? Their cuteness is not the only thing that puts a smile on your face but there are many other mental health benefits…
7 Solutions For Overcoming Parenting Burnout
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation Take a deep breath. Slowly in, and then slowly out. Take a pause from reading this and close your eyes. Attempt to…
Mental Health Awareness at Work: 5 Reasons Why
By Dr Valeria Lo Iacono In recent years, there has been much greater awareness of mental health issues with much greater coverage in media and in society as a whole. We are gradually getting somewhere, for sure, in terms of making people aware that not…
Food For Mood: What You Eat Affects Your Mental Health
By Haneen Ahmad, MSW, LICSW Can nutrition affect your mental health? TOTALLY. If you are anything like me, good food makes your heart and soul dance. People underestimate the power that food can have over your mental health. Your brain on food is a much…
How To Cope When The Holidays Are Hard
By Kelly Clark The air is colder, lights are being hung, shopping carts are full, and the radio is telling us that it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Is it really though? For some people, it is far from the most wonderful time…
Healing Trauma Through Yoga
By Rose Hahn In this article, I’m exploring the intersection between two big wellness topics making the rounds in newsrooms, social media, and mental health outlets today: yoga and trauma. It might seem these topics have little to do with each other. But the truth…
Stress & Youth: Signs and Strategies
By Sarah Dochow Have you ever thought “Oh how I would love to be young and stress-free again?” Well, the thing is young people, like adults, experience stress. It can show up in a lot of different ways. And can stem from a variety of…