Mental Health
Posts on mental health practices, therapeutic solutions, self care tactics, and more.
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Manifestation: The Science Behind Why it Actually Works
Manifestation. Manifesting. The Law of Attraction. Perhaps these words strike you with an involuntary eye roll or a flashback to a bohemian TikTokker you saw recently with a “message that…
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Toxic Hustle Culture and its Consequences
What does it take for a person to succeed? Is embracing hustle culture the best way to achieve your goals, and when (if ever) is it okay to be “lazy?”…
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Rest with Intention and Watch Your Energy Surge
There’s a funny video circulating on TikTok where its creator shares that he got only four hours of sleep last night. Unsurprisingly, he feels fatigued. Another frame shows someone who…
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Your Mighty Mitochondria and its Surprising Superpowers
Mitochondria-what is that? Have you ever heard the joke about what recent generations have learned from their years of schooling? It goes something like this: graduates may not know how…
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Transform Your Mind and Body: 30 Days of Practice
You have most likely heard something about mindfulness and meditation, yoga, or all of the above, and their ability to transform your mind and body. Coming into 2021, we still…
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Marching Towards Minimalism: Free the Mind by Freeing Up Space
When you think of “minimalism,” what comes to mind? Do you think of an empty, white room with one lonely succulent on the bare windowsill? Maybe you think of a…
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In Late December: A Poem for the Mourning and Melancholy
(This poem was written with the goal of suicide prevention and mental health awareness; readers should be aware of references to the topic of suicidal ideation). In late December, a…
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The Walking Dead and Zombies: Make Your Mornings Less Macabre
We are the real-life zombies, the walking dead, and we are dying to make our mornings less macabre.
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Ghosts and Ghouls: How to RIP Amidst Unfinished Business
With their spooky groans, the flickering lights, and their unfinished business, ghosts bring about intrigue and a frightening possibility to an otherwise unspectacular realm. How can we RIP amidst unfinished…
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Sit, Sip, and Exist: How to Be Still and Unplug
The toxic need to constantly multitask, to constantly be plugged in and productive, is a pivotal issue in American society and how it has programmed us to be: constantly "on"…
