Coping with Job Loss
Opportunities are around you; choose the ones that pick you up and carry you forward.
Opportunities are around you; choose the ones that pick you up and carry you forward.
There are a number of steps you can take to ensure you’re ready to return to work without putting your mental health at risk.
Coming out as a person who had been living with mental illness helped me not only find my voice but realize I always had one.
As I began to accept that recovering from depression did not mean outgrowing my support system, it became easier to fight.
Say no to fear. Embrace your imperfections, they make you who you are.
It’s important to be patient with yourself and remember even the smallest steps forward add up.
It’s important to be patient with yourself and remember even the smallest steps forward add up.
While I cannot always control the hold my mental illness has over me, I can ensure that my own self-care always remains a priority.
I believe it is important as an anxiety sufferer to learn how to get the most out of our lives despite our conditions.
In building your anxiety pantry, you are caring for your future anxious self, who will likely really appreciate it.
The following tips will empower you to help yourself and your anxiety during COVID-19.
I hope you can take comfort in knowing that if you are experiencing new year anxiety, you’re not alone and it does get better.
Chances are things aren’t going to go extremely horribly nor are they going to go exceptionally well. The most likely outcome lies somewhere in the middle.
In this video, I share five everyday things that help me cope with my anxiety.
If you follow these 10 tips for reducing anxiety during the holiday season, you can feel better, have a brighter mood, and have more fun, too!
If this sounds all too familiar, I have a plan capable of helping us through holiday stress and anxiety. This plan allows me to enjoy the holiday.
There are ways to overcome travel anxiety so you can fully enjoy yourself, which is what the holiday season is all about!
Anxiety can make social situations daunting. They can make you feel tired and overwhelmed, and for a lot of people, can trigger an anxiety attack.
Recovering from anxiety can consist of a lot of contradictions. A huge part of recovery is balancing those contradictions.
In my own recovery from a mental illness revolving around taking away my own sense of choice, small victories equate to measures of control.
It’s important to remember everyone experiences their anxiety differently, and one person’s idea of small victories might be entirely different to yours.
When talking about your anxiety, there is no need to be apologetic. In the vocabulary of your illness, don’t let sorry be the go-to phrase.
The arrival of spring and summer are such promising ways to hold on to any progress made within recovery. It is also a great time to continue to take new steps forward, too. I am not a city girl, and nature and the outdoors are my haven.
While there is some truth in the stereotypes surrounding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, it is an illness intricate beyond the façade of mismatched colors and a phobia of germs.
There’s a lot of focus around doing things for others during the holiday season, but make sure you’re practising self-care, too.
Avoiding triggers is not always a bad thing. In fact, it is essential to our self-care to know what we can handle and what we cannot.
I believe secrets keep you sick. I have found this to be true time and time again. When I keep my secrets and am not honest about what I’m hiding, my symptoms are worse.
I have found my anxiety lessens by maintaining healthy habits in my day-to-day life because I am preemptively taking care of myself and eliminating some anxiety triggers.
Taking time for yourself, and giving yourself moments to focus solely on your mental well-being is important as you take steps towards recovery and a happy and healthier you.
Do remember you’re stronger than you think, and eventually the storm will break. Every step forward, no matter how small, is progress.
What is important is that we keep moving forward. If we don’t, we can’t grow. It might be uncomfortable and we might be afraid. But I believe this is only the middle ground before we reach the other side, and we find that the water is cool and refreshing!
“Coming out” as a person who lives with mental illness is not a one-time thing; it’s something I must face over and over again, with different people, in different situations. But there is nothing more liberating than showing myself to the world as the brave and strong, yet fragile and sensitive, being that I am.
I have come to realize Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is not something I am, but something I have…I am neither the years I’ve lived with the disorder nor the amount of time it will take for me to get rid of it.
Romance is complicated for even the most “normal” individuals; so, for a girl suffering from a bad case of OCD mixed in with your fair
The desire to travel made me push down my fears as an anxious traveler and step out the door. Here are some tips for those of you who, like me, experience travel anxiety.
I stay accountable to my own recovery, even with its setbacks, and the possibility that I might just make it through this thing in one, beautiful piece.