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Dangers of Urgency Culture to our Mental Health
Feeling the pressure to constantly hustle? Let us talk about urgency culture and what it does to mental health. In a world that glorifies busyness and non-stop productivity, it is easy to get swept into a permanent state of rush. The real question is what that costs —...
The Last Child
🌸 Sharing from the heart today. Grieving the end of childbearing is not something we talk about often, and it has been sitting with me lately. It's a feeling that's been weighing heavily on me lately, and I believe in the power of opening up and finding solace in...
Benefits of Travel on Your Mental Health
Travel and mental health are linked more directly than the holiday-brochure version suggests. Beyond the pleasure of going somewhere new, a change of place does a few specific things to a tired mind — and it is worth knowing what they are, because it determines what...
It’s a New Year!
Setting new year mental health goals works better than it has any right to, because a new year is a genuinely useful psychological marker. Researchers call it the fresh start effect — a dated boundary makes it easier to separate the person you were from the person you...
5 Helpful Tips for Career Hunting
Looking for work is one of the few things that combines high stakes, no timeline and constant rejection. Job search stress is not a sign you are handling it badly — it is what that combination does to most people. Here are five things that help, both practically and...
Navigating Anxiety During Family Holiday Events
The holiday season is supposed to mean joy, celebration and family. For anyone dealing with holiday anxiety, those same gatherings can be a fortnight of low-grade dread — the social demands, the expectations, and the sheer scale of a big family event all stacking on...
What’s OCD?
What is OCD? Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a mental health condition defined by intrusive, unwanted thoughts — obsessions — and the repetitive behaviours or mental acts performed to neutralise them, called compulsions. It affects millions of people, and although it...
Feeling Stuck
Feeling stuck in life is close to universal, and it is unusually good at convincing you it is permanent. Whether it shows up in your relationships, your career, or a general sense that the years are passing without much changing, the trapped feeling can be genuinely...
It’s an Odd World Right Now
Coping with uncertainty has become a daily skill lately. Are you feeling the oddness in the air as much as I am? It is hard to put a finger on, but the world seems to be changing at a pace that is difficult to absorb. Politics, human rights, the climate, the economy,...