I’ve always had trouble managing emotions. Here are the coping methods I’ve learnt. Anyone can benefit from healthier emotional regulation.
Are Intrusive Thoughts Normal?
What does that thought mean about me? Does that thought mean I want to do it? What if thinking it makes it more likely to happen?
Abandonment or Drifting – Overcoming the Fear
Staying at uni an extra year, I felt my friends were abandoning me as they moved on. But drifting is not abandonment – the door remains open.
Mental Health Crisis Planning: The Wellness Toolbox
A wellness toolbox is a folder full of information about your mental health problems and coping strategies, to help in times of crisis.
Life With Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
If anxiety is the devil, I just want to hold him by the neck and shake the living daylights — or nightlights — out of him!
Workplace Mental Health and Snow Day Stitching
Employees are human beings, not robots. Even if we don’t suffer from a mental health illness, our well-being can be affected by life events.
How to Create a Meditation Room
A clear space that you can dedicate to pure meditation and contemplation. A sacred space just for you and those who you want to invite inside.
When Mental Health Affects Your Job
The Monday morning blues are perfectly normal, but when you are in poor mental health, the morning before work can bring on a whole new array of obstacles.
Are emotions you? Are your thoughts you? What makes you…you?
Emotions and thoughts are transient. The you now will not be you forever. How to create a balance and prevent hopelessness.
The ultimate list of coping outlets for those fighting depression and anxiety
What are your favorite ways of coping during stress, depression, or anxiety? How is your journey of positive coping going?
How the school run nearly broke me
For four years, taking my son to school was a twice daily ordeal. It took a tremendous toll on my mental health as well as the family as a whole.
Dealing With Anxiety And Depression
I know that everyone has to go through thunderstorms, hurricanes, a tornado or two, even a tidal wave. It’s these situations that test us.