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.
Giving yourself kindness and grace is an essential step in managing your IBS diagnosis.
I never would have predicted the profound part my rescue animals have played in my own journey of integrating my trauma.
Going to therapy and actively working on your issues is tough work. Please don’t ever diminish that work or yourself.
Turning eating into a positive experience is certainly a goal of recovery, but it’s okay if that’s not where you’re at.
We should absolutely fight to kick eating disorder voices out of our heads and lives so we can regain control and enter back into health.
I never would have predicted it, but many lessons I learned through eating disorder recovery have helped me navigate motherhood.
Why should I feel bad about being a different size? It hasn’t changed who I am or how much love I give or any of that important stuff.
While Thanksgiving is a good reminder to reflect on what we are thankful for, we should be grateful for what we have (and don’t have) every day of our lives.
At its core, embodiment means refusing to alienate or objectify any part of myself as something that needs to be eliminated or subjugated, and accepting myself – my whole self – for who I am.
The social model of disability has helped me conceptualize my eating disorder as a reaction to and injury from societal norms and beliefs.
Advocating for your ADHD is about figuring out what works best for you with the help of your doctor and/or therapist.
Learning how ADHD and bipolar influence each other and how each one manifests in me is absolutely crucial.
While there are differences between them, both skin-picking and self-injury can be seen as ways that we are attempting to cope with a problem.
Bipolar can control your life, but there are many ways to go about controlling it instead of letting it control you.
Yes, I am my body. But my body is not to be conflated with what anyone assumes on the basis of my appearance; it is also my thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams, values, and lived experiences.
For a long time, I felt that as long as my emotional pain around my body image and eating was not observable, it was not valid or deserving of care.
My ongoing struggle for my own freedom with food is not over until freedom with food is possible for everyone.
Take action to design the life you want, not the one you think you’re supposed to have.
Embodied cognition has taught me that listening to my body doesn’t have to involve constant hypervigilance and surveillance over my physical sensations.
Yoga is more than just an exercise; it is a method for controlling the mind and an outlook on how to live life.
In the case of COVID-19, resolving the problem is out of our hands, but I believe we’re still able to grow from it anyway.
We deserve to love our bodies not because of what they can do or how well they can function, but because they are an inseparable part of our existence.
Now I’m prepared to give this my best, and as long as I work toward these goals I’m sure I can handle my anxiety.
While we grieve the loss of our security and our control, we also recognize a chance to do it differently. We get a chance to look at our life and determine if the path we are walking is still right for us.
Making gratitude part of your regular daily routine, while challenging, is worth trying. Once it becomes habitual it will be easier, so you’ll reap its benefits without much effort.
Although we can’t always prevent the onslaught of a depressive episode, we can try our very best to deter it.
The following tips will empower you to help yourself and your anxiety during COVID-19.
It comes down to feeling connected in other ways and staying occupied while still allowing myself some downtime.
Right now, it is time to care for yourself better than you have ever done before. We need to be here at the end of this. It’s not selfish, it’s healthy and it’s because we matter.
What you’re used to eating might look different right now, and that’s okay. Give yourself permission to eat less fresh foods, to eat more snack foods, and to be flexible at the grocery store.