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.
Four years on, I can say that I am the most stable I have ever been in my life in relation to anxiety, depression and irrational thoughts. I am not afraid anymore. I refuse to be. I am free from fear.
When I found out this month’s topic was Reasons to Recover, I surprisingly had a difficult time developing my thoughts and coming up with something
I completely understand why the mantra “one day at a time” is so helpful to people recovering from a variety of addictions, whether it be
As a child, I always felt as though I was under a ton of pressure to be perfect. I loved to read, write, and learn.
When fighting depression, the first thing I always found was how quickly I could get caught-up in my own thoughts and within my own head.
The scars remind me of the courage it took to fight that impulse each day. They remind me that I am stronger than I believe and that those anxious days will pass.
No matter how difficult recovery might seem, staying sick is much worse and it quickly becomes clear that there is so much more to life than an eating disorder.
Swimsuit season? Bring it on! I’m healthy, I’m recovering, and I’m going to teach the next generations to love their bodies, especially when they’re in swimsuits.
School. It brings with it a lot of stress, doesn’t it? Throw in recovering from an eating disorder and you have quite a juggling act
Upon returning home from an eating disorder treatment facility last year, my beyond-ecstatic parents wanted to treat me and celebrate all of the hard work
Exercise can be a tough subject for people with eating disorders, and it is bombarding us everywhere we look, especially in January. Unfortunately, we can’t
Content Warning: this article deals with body image, body dysmorphia, eating disorders, and exercise addiction. “Exercise is good for you. You’re not doing anything wrong,
I dare you to type “recommendations for normal exercise” into Google scholar. You’ll get recommendations for everybody outside the ‘regular’ realm – cardiovascular patients, diabetic
Time and time again I hear about people dreading the holidays. There are people everywhere freaking out about all of the food and possible weight
My favourite part of the holidays is the nostalgia that drips sweet with memory. The other thing I love about the holidays is relaxing –
I can’t tell you how many times my parents told me to “take a break” from the eating disorder for a day, to be normal
Orthorexia is so easy to hide because it is one of the least common forms of eating disorders. Even if people see signs, they don’t know how to label it.
Self-reflect, and whatever happens, understand that as long as you choose recovery every day, you are doing the most important thing.
You never know how many people are there to listen to you until you start talking.
Recently I was given the honour of being asked by Bridget to be interviewed for a feature article she is writing on “use of social
Safe to say I think we’ve all experienced some sort of fulfilling friendships in our lifetime where we’ve found somebody we bond with, share life
“The term ‘starvation diet’ refers to a specific number of calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call
A form of self-harm that isn’t really talked about but one that I have struggled with is skin picking – also known as Dermatillomania. As the name suggests, skin picking involves a compulsive need to pick ones skin.
I grew up in a small town, the youngest of four. As a child I was quiet and a good student but things started to
Relapse is normal Whether you are in recovery for an eating disorder, addiction, self-harm, or some other maladaptive behavior, you have probably heard these words
What is muscle dysmorphia (MD)? Andrew: MD is a disorder that is strikingly similar to eating disorders – but in reverse. So instead of never
Content Warning: this article deals with body image, body dysmorphia, eating disorders, and exercise addiction. It also contains an example of a fitspiration image for
I have been thinking and thinking for most of the month about what I wanted to write about for my post on relapse, and finally
If you have read my blog before then you’ll already know that I’ve struggled with anxiety, sometimes crippling, from about June 2011 but have experienced
Eating Disorders are illnesses that destroy us from within, but it is possible to break free. In fact, we have every right to reclaim our