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.
Mindfulness, while no easy task, has enabled me to simply focus on my breath and remind myself of where I am in the present.
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.
Staying present in eating disorder recovery is about being aware of what is going on internally right now, at this very moment.
As you probably know, it’s really tough these days to escape diet myths. Nutrition information is everywhere and much of it is a twisted form of the truth.
A doodle diary is similar to a journal in the self-expression field. However, with doodling we will rely on visuals rather than words.
Election day has left many trying to process the outcome. Here’s a list of activities that we hope will help get you through.
When in eating disorder recovery it can be difficult to acknowledge and express emotions. All of the emotions often get covered up under ‘feeling fat’.
When work makes it difficult to maintain low stress and low anxiety, here are some things to try to prioritize a good mental health balance.
Living in a state of balance between people pleasing and being assertive will help us thrive in our recovery. Watch this video to learn more!
It is important to realise we cannot reach solid recovery if we simply replace our eating disorder with our recovery. We need more; we were made for more!
You have to be sure you can tell the difference between “fitness” and “fitspo.” All it takes is some fitness literacy. Here are some tips.
For this art activity we are making a “Yes List”. Give yourself permission to decide what you want to live out and what you want to let go of.
Recovering from anxiety can consist of a lot of contradictions. A huge part of recovery is balancing those contradictions.
I was inspired to write this letter specifically from my own struggles in the post-graduate life. I want to say it’s okay to feel whatever you are feeling.
It’s important to feel gratitude for small victories in recovery. When the focus is on gratitude rather than disappointment, you will reap the benefits.
Many of the victories we have when recovering from an eating disorder are small. It’s important to recognize them and continue moving forward.
Body image is defined as what you believe about your own appearance, how you feel about your body, and how you feel in your body.
In my own recovery from a mental illness revolving around taking away my own sense of choice, small victories equate to measures of control.
For someone recovering from an eating disorder every choice matters, and these small victories are essential for a strong recovery.
This month we will be drawing still life. In art class, we draw still lives as a basic eye training technique.
It’s important to remember everyone experiences their anxiety differently, and one person’s idea of small victories might be entirely different to yours.
There are a lot of dietitians and therapists who have different specialties and navigating through them all can be daunting, but it can be done!
I have Bipolar Disorder. Yes, it might make me a bit unpredictable at times, but it does not make me weak or less capable of anything.
As I began to focus on small victories, I learned to stop seeing recovery from depression categorically and start seeing it as a continuum.
By focusing on small obstacles we can succeed in the challenges created by the ‘all or nothing’ mindset commonly associated with an eating disorder.
I think about the ways in which my voice has changed over the years, how it’s gone from soft and tentative to purposeful and powerful.
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.
In this video, I discuss how activism can be an important part of finding your voice while recovering from an eating disorder.
If I created the struggle, I could also create the victory, the recovery. Those words were me speaking up and choosing to take on my recovery head-on.
For me, finding my voice means coming out as gay, both to myself as well as my family and friends. I came out to my immediate family about four years ago.