How to Talk About Your Mental Illness With a Loved One
The scariest part of your mental health journey can often be talking to others about it. When I first learned about my social anxiety and…
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5 Tips for Beating Back-To-School Anxiety
When I received an email from my professor listing all the textbooks we needed this semester, I did a double take. I glanced at the…
How to Beat the Sunday Scaries
My Sunday night anxiety is nothing new. As a kid, I remember laying in bed wide awake, gazing up at the glow-in-the-dark stars that stylishly…
How I Found Peace in the Days Leading Up to Graduation
In the weeks before my college graduation, conversations all tend to seem the same. They go a little something like this: “How are you feeling?”…
Confidence Through Chords: Learning To Play the Banjo Helped Me Challenge My Inner-Critic
As far back as I can remember, I have struggled with anxiety and depression. My father, who suffered from Schizophrenia, took his own life when…
Why Keeping a Journal in My 20s Changed My Life
When I was in my 20s, I was fulfilled. I worked hard, and I was achieving many of my goals– even if slowly and painfully–so I wanted to understand why I was anxious so much of the time. I knew I felt disconnected from a spiritual practice, and I wanted to find a way to search for a connection that felt realistic to me.
5 Tips for Dealing With Travel Anxiety
Do you love to see new places but hate the process of getting there? As a seasoned traveler with a insatiable case of wanderlust, I…
4 Ways to Overcome the Anxiety of an Overwhelming World
Reading and watching today’s news can send you into a panic attack. Global poverty, ice caps melting, congressional chaos, nations threatening one another. It can…
5 Ways to Ease Panic in the Moment and in the Long Run
I’m a 26-year-old with Postpartum Mood Disorder and a second kiddo on the way. As a lifelong anxious person, I’ve struggled with panic quite a…
4 Steps I Take to Quell My Anxiety
During finals week in my freshman year of college, I wasn’t hitting the books like I should have been. Instead, I found myself editing others’…