Achieving Your New Year Resolution in 4 Simple Steps

With the beginning of a New Year comes the unavoidable pressure and/or excitement of resolutions. However, despite its positive image, a resolution can often times become a trap for self-hatred. Let me paint you a picture: It’s the beginning of the year and you’re ready to finally start going to the gym consistently and eating …

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The Complete Anxiety Disorder Encyclopedia: Part 1 of 2

Precursor: Today’s mental health memo is: today we’re getting educational and psychological by learning about the different types of anxiety disorders that exist in this anxiety encyclopedia part 1 (click for part 2 here) I wanted to create an outline of every single type of anxiety disorder because I feel like people often think anxiety …

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5 Incredible Ways Swimming Helps Anxiety: My Personal Experience

Precursor The mental health memo of the day: if you were to ask me (a person that loves to exercise but conveniently also has Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia) which exercise is my favorite for anxiety, I would say swimming. Swimming helps anxiety in so many ways, and I just had to share my experience with …

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How to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder in 7 Easy Steps

With winter coming around for a lot of folks, this means the return of Seasons Affective Disorder which is also known as SAD. This is a type of depressive disorder that is based on seasonal changes. Typically, SAD comes out during the winter and fall and then goes away in the summer and spring. It’s …

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How to Manage Anxiety Like a Pro in 10 Simple Steps

Precursor The mental health memo of the day is: if you’ve been struggling with anxiety and have no idea how to manage it so you can participate in life normally again, I’ve got you with today’s post! Anxiety can be incredibly debilitating regardless of how long you’ve had it for or how severe it is. …

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12 Ways to Use Self-Care to Improve Mental Health

Introduction Today’s mental health memo: we all know we need to practice self-care to improve mental health and ensure we’re in a healthy headspace, but how do we do it? Kelsie Bentley will be telling us how to do just this with her brilliant guest post today! Kelsie Bentley is a self-care and personal development …

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9 Harsh Truths About Mental Health You Need to Accept to Heal

Precursor The mental health memo of the day is: accepting harsh truths about mental health won’t make you jaded, but rather help you to reframe your reality so that you don’t have unrealistic expectations that will inevitably hurt you or those around you Alternative memo of the day: as our lord and savior Lizzo once …

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The 9 Biggest Misconceptions About Anxiety. Do You Know Them?

The Precursor The mental health memo for today is: I don’t have enough fingers on my hands to count the number of times I’ve had to correct people on their misconceptions about anxiety. I need more hands!!! It’s over 10 years now since I first got diagnosed with Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia. Within those short …

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Panic Attacks Vs Anxiety Attacks: Are They the Same?

Panic Attacks Vs Anxiety Attacks: The Issue I often hear the words “anxiety attack” and “panic attack” used interchangeably. This is often done in casual conversation and even in the professional field. And because of that I also used to think they were the same thing. But as I studied Psychology and Social Work, and …

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