The Wellness Diary
Insights, advice, new research, tips and tricks, and new resources to help you with your mental health journey.
How Trauma Affects Identity
Generational trauma affects more than just behavior; it shapes identity and self-perception. This guide explores the ways trauma impacts identity, with strategies for healing and reclaiming self-worth.
Navigating the Low Points: What It Means to Experience a Depressive Episode
Depressive episodes can significantly impact mental well-being, affecting mood, energy, and daily life. This guide explores what constitutes a depressive episode, its symptoms, common causes, and strategies to manage and seek support.
Five Strategies for Academic Performance Anxiety
Academic performance anxiety is common among students of all ages and can impact focus, well-being, and achievement. This guide explores five effective strategies to help manage performance anxiety and build confidence in academic settings.
AI Friendships – Helpful or Harmful?
AI friendships are becoming more common, providing companionship and support. However, there are concerns about their effects on real-life relationships. This blog examines the advantages and potential risks of forming friendships with AI.
Learning Cultural Competency: Skills for Understanding Diversity and Inclusion
Cultural competency involves understanding, respecting, and adapting to diverse perspectives. This blog offers practical tips for building cultural competency, promoting empathy, and creating inclusive, respectful environments.
Recognizing Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in Children
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children can be difficult to recognize, as symptoms may resemble typical childhood behaviors. This guide explores common signs of OCD in children and provides supportive strategies for parents to manage symptoms effectively.
14-Ways to Keep Romance Alive in a Crowded Home
Maintaining romance in a crowded home can be challenging, but there are effective ways to keep the connection strong. This guide offers tips for finding private moments, building intimacy, and nurturing your relationship.
The Role of Shame and Guilt in Trauma
Generational trauma often involves feelings of shame and guilt passed down through families. This blog discusses the origins of these emotions and offers strategies for healing and building resilience.
Decoding Her Desires: A New Perspective on Understanding Women in Dating
Tired of feeling like you need a secret code to understand women in dating? Dive into the intriguing realm of female psychology! From body language insights to the influence of female friendships and confidence in communication, this blog offers valuable tips to help you decode her desires and build stronger connections.
Long-Term Depression and Self-Esteem
Long-term depression can erode self-esteem, impacting daily life and personal relationships. This guide explores how depression affects self-worth and offers strategies for rebuilding confidence over time.
How Remote Work Impacts Mental Health
Remote work has become a new normal for many, offering flexibility but also presenting unique mental health challenges. This guide explores how remote work impacts mental health, the pros and cons, and practical strategies to maintain a healthy work-life balance, reduce stress, and stay connected.
Learning Self-Advocacy Skills for Your Disability
Self-advocacy is a vital skill for individuals with disabilities, empowering them to voice their needs, assert their rights, and achieve greater independence. This guide explores strategies for building self-advocacy skills, navigating social and institutional challenges, and creating a support network that promotes confidence and empowerment.
Help Teach Your Child Build Resilient Coping Skills
In today’s world, resilience is a key trait that helps children navigate stress, setbacks, and challenges. By teaching effective coping skills early on, parents can empower their children to manage difficult emotions and build mental resilience. This guide offers practical strategies for fostering confidence and emotional strength in children.
How to Handle Financial Inequality Between Partners
Financial inequality is common in relationships and can lead to misunderstandings, frustration, and stress. This guide explores how couples can address financial differences with effective communication, mutual respect, and practical strategies to strengthen their relationship and work towards shared financial goals.
How Depression Affects Executive Function
Executive function encompasses essential mental skills like planning, decision-making, and time management. However, depression can severely impact these abilities, making daily tasks overwhelming. Learn how depression affects executive function, the challenges that result, and actionable strategies to regain control and manage life more effectively.
What is Avoidance Behavior?
Avoidance behavior often provides short-term relief for those experiencing anxiety, but in the long term, it can reinforce and increase feelings of worry and unease. Learn what avoidance behavior is, why it develops, and how to adopt healthier strategies for confronting and overcoming this coping tendency.
Resilience Refined: Learning from Life's Toughest Moments
Navigating through life's challenges can be daunting, yet these experiences shape our resilience and character in profound ways. This blog delves into how facing adversity directly can fuel personal and professional growth, offering insights on how to adapt, grow emotionally, and turn struggles into stepping stones toward a stronger future.
The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health: Managing Climate Anxiety
Climate anxiety, also known as eco-anxiety, refers to the chronic fear and worry many people experience in response to the ongoing environmental degradation and uncertainty caused by climate change. As individuals become more aware of the devastating effects of climate change—such as wildfires, hurricanes, and rising sea levels—feelings of helplessness, dread, and grief can emerge. For some, this anxiety manifests as an overwhelming sense of fear for the future of the planet and humanity.
How to Support Your Teen Through Major Life Transitions
Adolescence is a time of rapid growth, exploration, and self-discovery. During this period, teens face numerous life transitions—from starting high school and forming new social circles to dealing with the pressures of preparing for college or entering the workforce. These major transitions can be exciting yet challenging, and parents play a crucial role in providing guidance, support, and reassurance.
Generational Trauma: Trauma-Informed Self-Care Practices
Generational trauma, also known as intergenerational or transgenerational trauma, is a form of trauma that is passed down from one generation to the next. This kind of trauma can affect entire families or communities, leading to emotional, mental, and even physical issues that persist across generations. Healing from generational trauma is a deeply personal process, but it is also one that can transform the well-being of future generations