Mental health from the lens of a writer with lived experience
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How-tos, Guides, & Tutorials
Learn or teach mental health. My guides are visually engaging and full of information to guide you through complex mental health topics.
Whether you need help with coping skills or want a better idea of how to support someone with mental illness, my guides are sure to help you get through every step of the process.
How to Escape Social Isolation: The Ultimate Guide to Reconnection
In a stigma-ridden society, social isolation is becoming more common—and increasingly devastating. If you’re stuck in this cycle of distress, read this guide to learn how to escape and build meaningful connections.
What to Do if You Wake Up Feeling Depressed
Most of us know what a bad morning feels like. But some people experience a condition that makes their mornings come with severe depression. If that’s you, focus on changing the way your body responds to mornings. Here’s how.
What to Do if You’re Still Depressed After 30 Years
Not everyone is fortunate enough to recover from depression, which can be persistent or treatment-resistant and require less common treatments. This guide dives into options you might not have heard of, or those you need to know more about.
Mindfulness Starts with Loving Your Surroundings. Here’s What to Do if You Can’t
Appreciating the present isn’t easy when you live in environment you don’t like. But mindfulness starts with loving surroundings that may feel toxic. Learn how to get started in this helpful guide.
Depression 101: How Not to Wreck Your Mood
Feel like you know all about living well with depression? What about the actions that worsen your depression? Follow this guide to learn what not to do.
The Right Way to Support Someone Who Is Suicidal
There are ways people can support loved ones who are having suicidal thoughts provided they keep safety in mind as the number one priority. This guide will get you started.
Lists
Get the most important facts, research, and tips for protecting your mental health and improving your life. Whether you’re battling depression or looking to let go of anger, these lists promote recovery and rapid self=growth.
Nine Lesser-Known Myths About Depression, Debunked
Myths about depression have persisted for centuries, causing widespread stigma that is known to exacerbate the symptoms people with depression feel. It’s time for the truth.
The Top 10 Online Anger Management Resources, Ranked
I created a scoring system to rank these online anger management resources. Dive into this powerful list of courses, booklets, assessments, and downloadable guides.
A Complete List of Things to Let Go of for a Brighter Weekend
Carrying stress into each week will weigh on you after a few months; Learn what thoughts and limiting beliefs are holding you back, and get great advice to learn to let go of these burdens.
The best mental health information comes from people with lived experience. Get insight, advice, and support from a writer who’s survived mental illness and won.
Personal Experience
Having Hope While Facing Hardship
Hope is so much more than a reason to live. Hope empowers you to live beyond a daily struggle, meaning one day you’ll have the strength to envision a path through hardship.
My Top 10 Wellness Tips for the Homeless
A life of homelessness will drain anyone of strength. But prioritizing health and wellness is the key to survival. Here are my top eight wellness tips people who are homeless should remember.
How a Housing Worker Kept Me from Being Housed
I fought through targeted harassment to find the strength to share the truth about my housing situation—I never had to be homeless. But everyone wanted me to forget I had a place.
Explainers
Unravel the complexities of psychology and behavioral health with these exemplary explainers on living well, empathy and pain management, and the driving factors behind climate anxiety. These are memorable, entertaining stories designed for personal enrichment.
Profiles
Behind every innovation or reform is a memorable historical figure. Profiles are the types of pieces that shine light on the work, accomplishments, and lives of these figures. Get a glimpse of remarkable pioneers who fought tirelessly to create pathways in psychology.
Remembering Dr. Maxie Clarence Maultsby Jr., Founder of Rational Behavior Therapy
The great psychiatrist created a self-counseling approach that would change how therapy worked forever. Find out about Dr. Maultsby’s work and accomplishments and learn why his methods were so influential.
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