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The mental health memo of the day is: the pandemic has been hard not just for adults but for kids too, especially when it comes to school. Here’s how you can help children cope with pandemic school changes! Another day, another exciting and insightful guest post! Today we’ll have Flick Frankish sharing her top 5 …
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Precursor The mental health memo of the day is: OCD isn’t a cute, quirky thing to call yourself because you like to be organized. It’s a real mental illness and it needs to be taken seriously. So here are some AMAZING OCD tips & tricks to help you not just survive but thrive with OCD. …
Precursor Today’s mental health memo is: 15-year-old me inhaling bags of chips and never moving from her bed would be gagged at 22-year- old me exercising every day. Exercising has amazing benefits for not just your physical health, but your mental health too. We all know that. Yet, it can be SO hard to actually …
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Precursor The mental health memo of the day is: it’s that time of year again- graduation. And with graduation, comes graduation gifts. And with graduation gifts, comes stress over what to buy. This is where I come in with this ultimate college graduation gift ideas list! Graduation is such a special moment for everyone involved …
Precursor The mental health memo for today is: controlling our emotions seems like something we all should be able to do as adults, but it’s a lot harder than it looks! This is where understanding how to practice self-regulation is essential. A lot of times we can feel unable to calm down or energize ourselves …
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Precursor The mental health memo of the day: what your self-care looks like now is probably not what it looked like in 2019, right? There’s no way around the fact that self-care during the pandemic is going to be vastly different than self-care during “normal” times. Ah, how I dream of spa days and peacefully …
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The precursor to stop having panic attacks while exercising The mental health memo for the day is: panic attacks while exercising are a whole new level of “Am I a joke to you, brain?” Sooo, it has been a long time since I have uploaded a blog post. A lot of things have happened over the …
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What is Agoraphobia? Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder associated with feelings of anxiety or even panic attacks in situations the person doesn’t consider safe or easy to get out of. The reason these situations are unsafe is often that the individual feels they can’t escape if they get a panic attack. That is why when …
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What is Back to School Anxiety? Ah, it’s that time of year again: Parents rejoice and their kids are miserable. There are fistfights over binders at Staples. There isn’t a backpack big enough to fit 8 textbooks, a laptop, lunch, and notebooks. WHY ARE THERE NO GEL PENS ANYWHERE?! Yes. It is back to school …
Welcome back to a new post! This week I wanted to talk about how to practice self-love in the summer. I got inspired to do this because I recently got my first ever tattoo (took me long enough), and it was a quote I find myself having to repeat a lot: “You owe yourself the …
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