What to Expect During Your First Therapy Session

Going to therapy for the first time can be intimidating. The first time I went to therapy I was 11. My mom hauled me down to the therapist’s office and I waited impatiently to be called back. At the time, I hated my mom for forcing me to go to therapy and I knew I’d […]

Tips for Living with Social Anxiety

Social anxiety is an intense and persistent fear that you’re being watched and judged by others. When someone lives with social anxiety, daily interactions can cause irrational anxiety and self-consciousness. Living with social anxiety is crippling. I feel like I’ve always struggled with some level of social anxiety but there were a few years in […]

How to Support Someone With Depression

Living with depression can be crippling. It takes so much from you, leaving you feeling helpless. I was a child when I first started displaying signs of depression. I cried myself to sleep almost every night, I was angry and I felt alone and worthless. My depression became severe to the point where I started […]

How Yoga is Great for Mental Health

I remember getting my first yoga mat and how excited I was to dive into my practice. I started slow but it wasn’t long before I was attempting more strenuous poses. Over the few years that I’ve been practicing, yoga has become a way for me to manage my mental health, more specifically my anxiety. […]

13 Signs of Burnout and How to Cope

Burnout is physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion and is the result of prolonged stress. The term was coined by psychologist Herbert Freudenberger in the 1970s. While stress from burnout usually comes from your job, your lifestyle can also add to this. At some point, we will all experience stress from work but it develops into […]