Anxiety is more than a feeling in your mind. It’s also a response from your nervous system.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When most people picture an anxiety attack, they imagine someone who is visibly panicked and overwhelmed by emotion. But anxiety doesn’t always show up that way, especially in men.

Your job is one of the most common sources of stress in daily life. Even in a comfortable role, you’ll have days that feel overwhelming.

Many people will experience a period of depression at some point in their lives. For some, antidepressants may not feel like the right fit.

We're living through uncertain and, let's be honest, scary times. The political system feels fraught. We’re seeing the impacts of climate change.

Most of us treat our emotions the way we treat the weather—unpredictable forces that simply happen to us. When we wake up feeling anxious or defeated, we assume the feeling itself is an undeniable truth.

First responders are prone to experiencing acute and chronic trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue. Acute trauma happens after a single traumatizing event, while chronic trauma happens because of repeated exposure.

The core idea behind EMDR therapy is that traumatic experiences can become “stuck” in the brain’s processing mechanisms. When trauma doesn’t get processed correctly, it can lead to symptoms like intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, reactivity to triggers, and avoiding places and things that are reminiscent of the trauma.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based therapeutic approach that is a modified type of cognitive behavioral therapy. Here are the four key skills that DBT sessions work to build and how you benefit from them.

For some people, life after trauma goes back to normal. However, other people may struggle for years with the aftereffects. Those who are deeply affected by their trauma might develop PTSD and experience symptoms that interrupt their day-to-day lives.

Trauma can profoundly impact an individual's life, often requiring serious and professional intervention to heal and move forward. Trauma therapy has proven itself to be a pivotal approach in mental health, offering guidance, hope and healing to those affected.

Grief is an inevitable part of the human experience, a complex emotional journey that each person navigates differently. Grief, in its essence, is unique to each person it effects.

In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, finding moments of peace and tranquility can seem like an elusive goal. However, amidst the chaos, there lies a powerful practice that has gained significant attention for its profound impact on mental well-being: mindfulness meditation.