May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this week, we're talking about social media: how it can impact your mental health—for good and bad—and what to do about it. Surprise to no one: our relationship with social media is complicated and nuanced. That's why we've split...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this week, we're talking about social media: how it can impact your mental health—for good and bad—and what to do about it. Do you start your day by checking your social media accounts? And end your day the same...
The New Year is a time for optimism and hope. A time of resolutions. A time to be proactive. So an article about grief probably doesn't scream "Happy New Year!" to you—and that's understandable. But the truth is, grief now plays a bigger role of...
How to Battle Holiday Stress a PHMP Online Knowledgebase Mini-Series Welcome to Part 3 of 3 in our conveniently-timed, aptly-titled How to Battle Holiday...
How to Battle Holiday Stress a PHMP Online Knowledgebase Mini-Series Welcome to Part 2 of 3 in our conveniently-timed How to Battle Holiday Stress...
How to Battle Holiday Stress a PHMP Online Knowledgebase Mini-Series Welcome to Part 1 of 3 in our conveniently-timed How to Battle Holiday Stress...
Defense mechanisms are behaviors people use to separate themselves from unpleasant events, actions, or thoughts. It's a psychological trick we use all the time as a way to put distance between ourselves and threats or unwanted feelings, such as guilt or shame. The idea of defense mechanisms...
Many people experience anxiety at some point in their lives. In fact, anxiety is a very normal response to stressful life events like moving, changing jobs or having financial troubles. However, when symptoms of anxiety become larger than the events that triggered them and begin to interfere...
Self-care is a commonly-heard phrase nowadays: it's a label attached to skin care products, fizzy bath bombs, yoga poses, organic foods, and more. But self-care is more than a commercialized sales buzzword. Self-care started as a way to physically take care of yourself. It then evolved...
Are you a glass half-empty or half-full sort of person? Studies have demonstrated that both can impact your physical and mental health and that being a positive thinker is the better of the two. A recent study followed 70,000 women from 2004 to 2012 and found that...