Living with Your Partner’s PTSD
Trauma is a complex and confusing thing to live with. It can be even more so if your loved one is experiencing symptoms and you are observing. When your partner has PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), you may not know how best to support them. At times, it may...
Signs of a Healthy Relationship: What works
Wouldn’t it be great if we could really learn about relationships from sitcoms? Life is a touch more challenging. Problems aren't often solved in 90 minutes. Instead of witty banter, we sometimes have to deal with harsh words. Figuring out what does and doesn’t work...
Want a Healthy Relationship? Use Attachment Theory to Navigate Online Dating
If you’re single (or non-monogamous), you have stories to tell about online dating. It’s hardly breaking news that using dating apps can feel like you’re navigating a minefield. People aren’t always honest and it’s way easier for people to ghost you online. So many...
4 Things Your Loved One with Anxiety Wants You to Know
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health conditions across the globe. It can present itself differently, depending on the person. However, the basis of anxiety is an irrational fear or worry. Some people experience it over specific things, while others deal...
Coping with Quarantine-Induced Social Anxiety: How to Manage New Stressors
It’s been a full year. Last March, a wave of funny internet memes emerged. The topics often explored the woes of forced introversion and social anxiety. Dark humor can be quite helpful in dark times. But now, however, the laughs have long since faded. Even folks who...
Feeling Depressed? The Link between Covid-19 Isolation and Seasonal Affective Disorder
What’s next? It may feel as if you’ve been asking that question every single day for the past 10 months. You’ve endured a global pandemic, stifling lockdown, economic crisis, social unrest, political division, and so much more. In between each of those extra-large...
Coping With COVID-19 to Keep and Protect Your Mental Health
Think back to your New Year’s resolutions as 2019 came to a close. Most likely, there was nothing in there about masks or hand sanitizer. No one could’ve seen this coming and, as a result, our collective mental health is under assault. Some 62 percent of adults now...
Triggered and Tense? Where Trauma May Be Stuck Inside You
Current events seem like reason enough to feel triggered and tense these days. You feel edgy, you’re having sleep issues, and perhaps your mind keeps sinking into a dark place. It’s logical to look for factors in your present life. But, quite often, the problem is...
Guilt vs Shame: What’s the Difference?
Word choice matters. We are all learning this more and more often — and it goes double in 2020. In psychological terms, it’s also essential that we properly identify our emotions. Along those lines, let’s do away with any belief that guilt and shame are “kinda-sorta”...
Managing Anxiety and Stress: Four Core Strategies
Anxiety and stress are nothing new. The negative impact they can have on your life is not exactly breaking news either. What is novel is just how much stress and anxiety the events of 2020 are causing.A global pandemic, economic crisis, and civil unrest — and we’ve...