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Easy Nervous System Regulation Practices You Can Use Anytime
Nervous system regulation practices give you ways to respond when anxiety leaves you tense or overwhelmed. They won't erase difficult feelings, but they can help you reconnect with the present and decide what might help.
The Role of Therapy in Managing Work Stress
Work stress is the strain that builds when job demands outweigh what you have to meet them.
What People Get Wrong About a “Regulated” Nervous System
Calling a nervous system "regulated" has become shorthand for calm, and that shorthand sets a standard no body actually meets. The description is useful, but it often gets stretched into something closer to a personality trait, as if some people have it and the rest of us are behind.
Letting Go of the Timeline You Thought Your Life Would Follow
You may have had a picture in your mind of what your life would look like by now. Then life took a different direction, and the milestones you expected to reach feel further away.
Why Letting Go of Sadness Can Feel Scary
Depression can become so familiar that the possibility of change brings its own uncertainty. When you've lived with depression for months or years, the heaviness and flatness can start to feel like solid ground, even when you desperately want something different.
Caring for an Aging Relative and Managing Your Own Emotions
Caring for an aging loved one is a role many people step into without warning and without any professional training. You're simply fitting it into a life that was already full.
Why Divorce Can Bring Up Feelings of Grief
When we imagine grief, we picture a funeral, flowers, and family gathered to mourn a specific person. But loss doesn't always come with a body attached to it.
How to Cope With Grief After a Sudden or Traumatic Loss
When someone we love dies after a long illness or in old age, the people closest to them can experience something called anticipatory grief. This means coming to terms with their death before it actually happens.
When Is It Time to Consider Grief Counseling?
Grief is one of the most complicated experiences we go through as human beings. It's also one of the most universal experiences, yet somehow there's still no clear blueprint for how to move through it.
When Caring for Others Comes at Your Own Expense: Signs of Codependency
It's natural to want to show up for someone you love. When a partner, friend, or family member struggles, most of us want to ease their pain and help however we can.
Creating Good Work-Life Balance to Prevent Burnout
These days, keeping a healthy line between work and the rest of your life is harder than it used to be. With the constant connectivity of smartphones and laptops, work has a way of following us home, whether we work remotely or not.
Anxiety Isn't All in Your Head—It Also Affects Your Heart
We tend to think of mental and physical health as two separate things, almost as if what happens in our minds stays there. But our minds and bodies are deeply intertwined, and anxiety is a clear example of just how far that connection reaches.
Why Natural Anxiety Relief Starts With Your Nervous System
Anxiety is more than a feeling in your mind. It’s also a response from your nervous system.
What Working Moms Need to Know About Depression
Being a working mom means holding down a job and running a household at the same time, and somehow we've come to expect women to do this without missing a beat.
What Depression Really Is and How It Feels
We hear it all the time: depression is “more than just sadness.” But unless you’ve lived through it, that phrase doesn’t really tell you much.
Training Your Body to Stop Being Hijacked by Anxiety
Anxiety doesn't just live in your mind. When your thoughts start racing and catastrophizing, your body follows right along. It tightens your face and shoulder muscles and floods itself with cortisol and adrenaline, putting your whole system on high alert.
A Simple Guide to Understanding Anxiety
At some point in life, almost everyone experiences anxiety, and probably more than once. It’s woven into our biology as a natural response meant to protect us.
Anticipatory Grief: Mourning Someone Before They’re Gone
Grief is one of those experiences that touches nearly every life at some point. And yet, for all its universality, grief and mourning remain shrouded in silence.
Common Risk Factors That Lead to Depression in Women
Being a woman is a wonderful thing, but it’s also complicated in ways that are invisible to others. Women navigate a unique set of biological, social, and psychological pressures that men simply don’t face in the same way.
Teen Depression and the Behaviors Parents Often Misunderstand
Parenting a teenager is one of life’s most rewarding and most challenging experiences. Adolescence is a time of enormous change: bodies are changing, emotions are running high, friend groups are evolving, and teens are beginning to figure out who they are.