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What Is Peer Support? How Can It Reprogram Your Mental Health?
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(Alternative) Ways To Journal That Work
So many of us want to feel these benefits of keeping a journal, but find the process to be tedious and soul-sucking. However, journaling can be an extremely important mental health maintenance tool, and can even help you set and achieve important personal goals. Thankfully, journaling can be much more than what most of us…
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Existential Crisis, Anxiety, or Dread? Inner Tools To Find Relief
The world we live in is filled with existential dread, anxiety, and crisis. Most days lately, it’s hard to believe reality is, well, real. We are all becoming more aware of the coldness, cruelty and dysfunction in this world, leading us to question our habits and values, whether we have any power to change things…
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Resentment In COVID Pods: 8 Steps To Resolve And Prevent It
You love them, but you never expected to be quarantined together for over six months. Admittedly, this is a unique time, and there’s no handbook or applicable history to tell us how to navigate it. People are more on-edge than usual, and emotions are running high, making it even more difficult to get along. On…
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Notice And Replace Your Negative Core Beliefs
Negative core beliefs are convictions you have about either yourself or the world, which quite literally keep you from the wellbeing you deserve. It’s not your fault for believing these messages about yourself, but you may be able to replace them with more realistic assessments. According to psychologists and authors Kathy Steele, Onno van der…
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Don’t Care About Anything? Enjoy Life Again, Through COVID-19
Have you ever felt that everything you do has lost all its substance? Like “I don’t care about anything,” because there’s no enjoyment or pleasure in doing it? A surprising number of us feel this way — especially now that we’re stuck in our houses 24/7 due to COVID-19, unsure of what the future looks…
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Teachers: Start The Year By Honoring Your Struggle In 5 Steps
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Help! What Am I Going To Do? Ways To Keep Moving Forward
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! 😱😱😱 Now that we got that out of the way, let’s figure out what you’re going to do. If you’ve heard of Isaac Newton, you’ve probably heard of inertia — the tendency for an object’s trajectory to remain unchanged. While human behavior isn’t quite that simple, it’s true that we tend to stick to…
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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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Does My Insurance Cover Mental Health? Help For You Or A Friend
You want to talk to someone. You’ve heard it costs a lot, and there are tons of hurdles. We’re here to help you navigate your options. Are you looking for a peer who understands your situation because they’ve been there too? A psychologist? A psychiatrist? What’s the difference? And how do you know if your…