Your Guide To Transitioning Well After you graduate high school, the world opens up to you. As you step into adult life, you are probably both excited and a little anxious. By being mindful of the transition, you can make sure you are prepared for the changes you will encounter. Here are a few...
The Symptoms of PTSD When our skin experiences trauma, it often leaves a scar. What used to be a healthy patch of skin is left permanently affected by a traumatic event. That can be true psychologically, as well. When a traumatic event, small or large, is experienced, it can leave the individual...
The Three Major Eating Disorders In our modern age, it is not uncommon for people to be obsessed with the way they look. Images with unrealistic beauty standards bombard us every day on magazines, TV, billboards, and the internet. As airbrushing and CGI have made it easier and easier for...
How Anxiety Disorders Can Affect A Life We all have had times—even entire seasons of life—that we would characterize as stressful. We know that when our minds feel anxiety or fear, our bodies respond. This is scientifically proven; under stress, your brain triggers the release of...
An Inside Look At Depression When depression is talked about in popular culture, it is often flippant. Unfortunately, this has left many people thinking depression and sadness are the same thing, and all someone suffering from depression needs to do to get healthy is “snap out of...
Work Better By Working Less The Biblical concept of the Sabbath still has applicability in the modern age. With digital data constantly at our fingertips and every person in your rolodex just one text message away, most of us are out of the habit of slowing down. This leads to us running ragged...
Understanding An Episode Also known as manic-depressive illness, bipolar disorder causes your mood and energy levels to shift suddenly. Living with bipolar disorder means that the ups and downs of life hit you more heavily than most people, which can result in decreased performance at work and...
A Look At OCD Everyone has had that feeling. You are halfway to work, and have the mini panic attack that comes with the sensation that you think you forgot to lock the door. Turning around to check your lock once is pretty normal, but if you feel the need to repeatedly triple or quadruple...
How To Get Your Loved One (And Yourself) The Necessary Support First off, let us remind you that you did not cause your family member’s mental health issue, and it is not your responsibility to fix it. Let that settle over you. You can come alongside your loved one, walking each step of...
Helping Your Kid Overcome Disease And Find Joy More than ever, teenagers today are being pressured by the media. With the ubiquitous nature of magazine covers featuring airbrushed models (both men and women), celebrities paying people full-time salaries to touch up their “selfies,&rdquo...
