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Diet Culture Harms Everyone, Especially During the Holidays

From Thanksgiving to New Year’s, kitchens across America fill with flour and pie crusts taking shape. It’s a season rich with tradition, special foods, and gatherings of loved ones. But for many people with eating disorders or a difficult relationship with food and their bodies, the holidays can...

Why We Procrastinate: The Psychology of Putting Things Off

It’s the end of your workday and you’re staring at the to-do list you made earlier. You have one project at the bottom of the list that you’ve been putting off. It’s already late—you still haven’t gotten to it. You tell yourself you’ll tackle the item tomorrow. You become increasingly frustrated...

Video: Culture and Identity in the Clinic

Discover practical skills for engaging with identity in ways that support understanding, connection, and mental well-being. Why This Training Matters Identity-related conversations often carry emotional weight and complexity, particularly when values, experiences, or power dynamics differ. Without...

Nature and Mental Health: Why Time Outside Helps You Feel Better

In 1853, Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal, “All nature is doing her best each moment to make us well—she exists for no other end. Do not resist her.” Long before Thoreau retreated to his cabin on Walden Pond for two years to immerse himself in nature, human beings have understood the...

Where Faith Meets Healing: Exploring Spirituality and Mental Health

Spirituality is often a steady anchor in times of crisis, uncertainty, or personal struggle. It nurtures inner peace, offers a sense of connection to something greater, and can ease the weight of daily stress when practiced with intention. Studies show that spiritual practices benefit both mind and...

Why Mental Health Days Matter—and How To Make Yours Count

From time to time, everyone needs what many have coined a “mental health day.” It’s a day off from work, a day away from screens and other obligations, or a little time to escape the pressures and frustrations of everyday life. “We all have a point at which we get overwhelmed, we’re engaging in...

The Medicine of Being Seen

I hadn’t seen Max in many years, not since middle school—thin and lanky, anxious about navigating social challenges, and often refusing to go to school. Soft-spoken and a little socially awkward, kids were mean to Max and made it hard to fit in. We had worked through it years ago, practicing facing...

LGBTQ+ Mental Health: Addressing Challenges and Boosting Well-Being

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) community encompasses people from diverse backgrounds, with a wide range of viewpoints, ethnicities, nationalities, genders, and sexual orientations. This diverse community also experiences higher rates of...

Stigma Doesn’t Stop at the Clinic Door

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” That playground saying has done a lot of damage. Sometimes words hurt. In mental health care especially, words can determine whether someone seeks help or not, whether a patient trusts their provider or walks away, and whether a...

Feeling Alone? 4 Simple Ways To Start Rebuilding Connection

Loneliness is something nearly all of us experience, even if we don’t always talk about it. You might feel it while working from home, eating dinner by yourself, or sitting on a crowded train with no one to turn to. Sometimes solitude is welcome—it gives us space to recharge, reflect, or enjoy...

Feeling Fried? 5 Simple Strategies To Beat Digital Burnout

Digital burnout, or the feelings of anxiety, exhaustion, and apathy caused by spending too much time on digital devices, is a growing problem. As technology makes us more interconnected and more of us rely on computers, tablets, and smartphones for work or school, the risk of burning out goes up and...

Scrolling and Stress: The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health

Social media offers instant gratification: a like, a comment, a quick hit of dopamine. But that feel-good feedback loop is by design—and it’s taking a toll on our health. Anxiety. Depression. Sleep disruption. Even physical symptoms. According to Pew Research Center, 69% of U.S. adults and 81% of...

Fueling the Mind: The Powerful Link Between Nutrition and Mental Health

Throughout history, we haven’t completely understood the relationship between diet and mental health in the Western world. Some people have suspected a connection between nutrition and health (mental and physical) based on observation. However, we did not have the scientific evidence to support it...

How Working From Home Can Improve Your Mental Health

The work-from-home revolution has given millions of people more freedom, flexibility, and control over their schedules. While some thrive in this new environment, others struggle with blurred boundaries, isolation, and unexpected stress. Without the structure of a traditional office, maintaining...

A Compassionate Guide to Sexual Orientation OCD

Sexual identity is an important part of how we view ourselves. Most people have little trouble knowing who they find attractive. This may not always be easy, of course. Varying factors, like religion, community values, social fears, etc., may create obstacles for someone trying to actualize their...

Love, Stress, and Support: Mental Health and Relationships

Maintaining healthy relationships is crucial for enhancing mental well-being. This is especially important when you or a loved one is dealing with mental health concerns, as supportive connections can help create a nurturing environment for everyone involved. Understanding the impact that mental...

Mind Meets Tradition: Blending Eastern Wisdom & Western Mental Health

Ideas about the mind and healing have developed in strikingly different ways across cultures. In the West, psychology often takes a clinical approach—identifying disorders, naming symptoms, and finding treatments. Eastern traditions, on the other hand, have long emphasized practices like meditation...

Video: The Full Picture: Gender’s Role in Modern Mental Health Treatment

Discover how gender expectations and bias influence mental health diagnosis and treatment, and how clinicians can respond with inclusion and awareness. Why This Training Matters Understanding gender’s influence on mental health is not optional—it’s essential. This recorded training invites...

The Mental Health Benefits of Better Time Management

Time management sounds so adult. But the reality is that in today’s society, being busy can be seen as a badge of honor, and too many of us place value on cramming “just one more thing” into our already jam-packed schedules. How often have you or someone in your life uttered the phrase “there isn’t...