The Wellness Diary
Insights, advice, new research, tips and tricks, and new resources to help you with your mental health journey.
Understanding Anxiety as a Shared Experience
Uncover powerful techniques for managing situations where someone else's anxiety affects your mental state. This in-depth article provides actionable strategies for regulating your emotions, establishing healthy boundaries, and fostering supportive relationships while assisting those grappling with anxiety. Learn how to navigate the delicate balance between empathy and self-preservation, ensuring your own well-being remains intact as you offer support to others. Discover insights on recognizing triggered anxiety, implementing effective coping mechanisms, and cultivating open communication to create a harmonious environment for both you and your anxious loved ones.
Supporting the Mental Health of California Wildfire Victims
California wildfire victims face immense emotional and relational challenges. This guide offers practical strategies to support their mental health and foster recovery.
The Importance of Coming Together During Natural Disasters as a Community
Natural disasters test our resilience, but communities that come together can overcome challenges more effectively. Explore the importance of unity, support, and collective action in disaster recovery.
Understanding and Coping with Vicarious Trauma Due to the Wildfires in Los Angeles
Vicarious trauma impacts those who empathize deeply with wildfire survivors. This guide explores how to recognize its symptoms, practice self-care, and build resilience.
Coping with Grief and Loss Due to the Los Angeles Wildfires
The devastating Los Angeles wildfires have left many grappling with grief and loss. Learn practical coping strategies, explore counseling options, and find hope amid the challenges of rebuilding your life.
Pandemic Fatigue - What It Is and How to Handle It
Pandemic fatigue impacts mental health, leaving many feeling exhausted, stressed, and overwhelmed. This guide explores what pandemic fatigue is, its symptoms, and practical strategies to manage it for long-term well-being.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Depression: How Learning Self-Compassion Can Help with Depression
Self-compassion is a powerful tool in managing depression. Learn how cultivating kindness and mindfulness can help break the cycle of self-criticism and foster emotional healing.