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Gaslighting: Signs, Situations, and Tips For Pushing Back
What does ‘gaslighting’ even mean? Well, it all starts out with your stove…. Just kidding! (sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves!) For real this time, browse or use the table of contents below to learn what gaslighting is, where it can show up, how to spot it, and most importantly: how to deal with it. What…
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From Coping To Healing: Making The Transition
Sometimes, we feel like all we can do is cope with our mental health. We don’t believe that we have the time, the resources, or the ability to actually work through our scars and struggles. Though managing symptoms through coping mechanisms may work temporarily, coping is not a long-term solution. Healing, on the other hand,…
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After Trauma: Post Traumatic Growth and Liminal Space
Once you endure major trauma, you will change as a person–that much is certain. And while you didn’t choose your trauma or the potential negative impact that it had on you, you do get to decide what you’ll do next. That’s the beauty of both liminality, and the post traumatic growth it leads to. How Trauma…
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Healing From Injustice By Channeling Righteous Anger
Anger is a normal, valid, and often adaptive response to frustrating situations; not the demon it’s often made out to be. But anger–even righteous anger–can quickly become self-destructive if not processed carefully. In this guide, we discuss where anger comes from, how to understand your own anger, and how to use anger as motivation for…
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Recover Your Sense Of Self In Order To Heal
When you’ve experienced a scarring event or relationship, healing means learning to follow your own path, and to meet your own needs before others’. However, the experiences that necessitate healing tend to also tear down your sense of self. How can you follow your own path, if your trauma keeps you from seeing it? In…
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NC: How To Go No Contact Without Guilt
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Suffering: Why Do We Feel Emotional Pain?
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It’s Hard To Heal While Swimming In Self Blame
We all criticize ourselves every once in a while. Being aware of our faults and where we need to improve is a good thing. However, self-blame crosses the line from constructive self-awareness into emotional self-harm. Self-blame often pops up as a result of trauma, and can really mess with both physical and mental health. And…
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Heartbreak: How To Heal After A Long Term Relationship
Can you mend a broken heart after a long term relationship? Yes. Have faith in your ability to heal from heartbreak, and get familiar with the 7-step process ahead… At the end of a long term relationship, only a few lucky folks escape feeling free of heartbreak. Especially after a lengthy period of time, you…
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How To Know Your Boundaries And Assert Them Without Guilt
You politely laugh off something that makes you uncomfortable, only to later realize you wish you’d spoken up. You didn’t even hint at your discomfort, because you didn’t realize it was a problem for you, until after-the-fact. What would help in this situation? Learning your boundaries. Setting boundaries is both nerve-wracking and necessary, but it…