By Cheryl Conklin If you’re among the many Americans who treat sleep as an inconvenience, you’re doing yourself a major disservice. And you’re taking a major health risk. Sleep deprivation represents a significant threat to your mental and physical health leading to depression, anxiety, anger issues, reduced cognitive functioning, [...]
By Melissa Howard Do you ever notice how stepping outdoors instantly calms you? It's not all in your head. The effects of nature on our mental state have been well studied, and the results have encouraged a boom in nature-based approaches to healing. According to Ask the Scientists, nature [...]
My first recollection of anxiety and fear was during my first day of kindergarten. As my mother dropped me off to a schoolyard filled with other kids waiting to meet their teacher, I felt my heart race and a cold chill go down my spine. Although I had difficulty [...]
by Melissa Howard No one wants to experience suicide or suicidal ideation. Often, suicide is a last resort to end suffering. Unfortunately, there is a painful relationship between suicide and substance abuse. If someone in your life suffers from addiction, here is what you need to know about the [...]
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines perfectionism as “the setting of unrealistically demanding goals accompanied by a disposition to regard failure to achieve them as unacceptable and a sign of personal worthlessness. You may want to ask yourself if your goals are so unreachable as to cause you unnecessary stress to the [...]
Your emotional health plays a large role in your ability to deal with life problems and stress. You can establish good emotional health by first identifying what it is you are feeling. This may sound like a no-brainer, but many people have difficulty honing in on exactly what they [...]
The body is a magnificent creation. It lets us know when we’re feeling well, and when things are off kilter. If we take good care of it, most likely it will take good care of us. If we abuse or ignore what it is telling us, we fail to [...]
It seems that worry has become a normal state of affairs for many, if not most, people. One only needs to turn on the television to witness conflict, aggression, lack of civil discourse, violence, death, and destruction. Repeated exposure leaves some people feeling numb and desensitized, while others feel [...]
