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Mental Health With Maddie: Shame, Guilt And What To Do With it All
White lies, as this month’s contributors have shared with us, are good, bad, ugly, hilarious, nefarious or some combination of adjectives. We tell lies for a variety of reasons. Sometimes to get out of something we never wanted to do, sometimes to protect relationships. Sometimes the lies are the smallest and whitest of lies, and…
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10 Ways to Take Care of You This Summer
Longer days and warmer weather are here; for many of us, it’s time to take a vacation. And while a vacation can be an act of self-care in itself, it can also be stressful, so it’s just as important to engage in self-care through the summer months. Take Your Usual Self-Care Outdoors – Take…
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These Five Boundaries Are The Key To A Calm Work Day
No, I’m not going to tell you to meditate. I had a full-time corporate social media job, and taught yoga classes in the mornings and evenings, while surrounded by company layoffs and ongoing turmoil in the media industry. And yet… My co-workers kept telling me how unfazed I seemed to be and marveled at how…
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A Journey Toward Validity
“Are you new here?” I hear it all the time. Every time, I react the same way. My face gets hot and I try to set my jaw in a display of fake confidence. I’ve been working in the same store for a year and a half now, but it’s still like feeling my way…
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How My Anxiety Made My Father Say “I Love You” For The First Time
My father rarely says “I love you.” We have worked around his fumbling of this phrase. Each night, before he leaves for work or at the end of each phone call, I say “I love you.” And he always replies “Me too.” This has been tradition for as long as I can recall. At this point, when…
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The Feel-Good Rut: A Guide
It’s embarrassing to admit, but I get stuck in cycles of re-watching movies and TV shows and re-reading the same books over and over, rarely introducing anything new into my bank of consumption. It’s like I develop an anxiety about seeing new films, starting new TV shows or picking up a new book. It’s seriously…
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Sexual Violence and Mental Health
Why It’s Important to Respect Survivors with PTSD The impact of sexual violence on a person can be devastating on their mental health. For me, the emotional trauma of having someone I had only known for a month invade my body led to developing a mental illness that affects me to this day. Ever since…
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Taking A Break from Social Media
Social media can and is overwhelming, not only on the eyes from staring at a bright screen for so long, but also on a person’s mental and emotional health. Social media is everything now and you can do so much with the power and access that people have. You can find jobs, you can find…
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20 Ways To Treat Yo’ Self For Under $20
We all have those days, or even weeks, where you just need to treat yourself. Whether it’s a bad work week or drama, we all need a vacation to the Bahamas every once in a while. Unfortunately, most of the time (unless your Beyonce herself) your budget doesn’t allow for an impromptu plane flight to…
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On Taking a Mental Health Day
So, I’ve talked a few times about how I find the ideal of people pushing themselves to the brink upsetting. I don’t get why we glorify the concept of working ourselves to the point of exhaustion, whether it be for a job or school, or even some personal projects. That is not to say that…
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