Five Ways to Spring Clean Your Brain
Spring is here, and with it comes spring cleaning! Spring is about freshness and renewal. It’s about new life and life lived anew. The ritual of spring cleaning is an important one. The idea of spring cleaning conjures images of…
What is Hope? 10 Definitions of Hope
Hope. It's something that is an integral part of mental health and wellbeing. We know it's important, and we hear the word used frequently. But what, exactly, is hope? Part of knowing what hope is involves knowing what it is…
Self-Confidence : Finding Yourself, Keeping Yourself
Self-confidence is a major component of our mental health and wellbeing. Self-confidence involves valuing yourself (as in self-esteem), and it involves believing you have the ability to do things (as in self-efficacy). Confidence is also about feeling deeply satisfied with…
A Balanced Approach to Balance, Mental Health, and Wellbeing
Creating balance in life is one of the most important components of mental health and wellbeing. The idea of balance for mental health is that, instead of driven by stress, pulled in multiple directions, sometimes tipping one way and sometimes…
Psychological Flexibility: Build It So You Don’t Break
Psychological Flexibility? You’ve likely heard of flexibility, and chances are when you think of the term you think of the body – as in, when you bend forward, can you touch your toes, your knees, or your thighs? (I’m working…
6 Signs of Toxic Behavior for Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
Teen dating violence happens. This can be hard to believe. We don’t want to think of our teenagers as being victims of relationship abuse, nor do we want to believe our teenagers are behaving in harmful ways toward their girlfriends…
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder? An Infographic Look at DID
It can be hard to know just what dissociative identity disorder (DID) is. DID is among those mental illnesses that are wildly misunderstood. Part of the reason is that the human brain is complex, DID is complex, and researchers are…
Split and Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
Split is a movie that portrays a man living with dissociative identity disorder (DID), a mental disorder that develops in childhood as a defense mechanism against severe trauma, usually in the form of abuse. My daughter first introduced me to…
Split, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and a Fear Factor
The movie Split premiers today, January 20, 2017. Is Split another movie in a long line of sensationalist movies that uses mental illness as a fear factor to trigger our psyches to spring into alert, inducing that edge-of-the-seat sensation that…
6 Ways to Stop Being Irritated and Regain Wellbeing
Do you ever have days when you feel irritated and annoyed at almost everything—and everyone? I hate feeling irritated and annoyed, so when I have days like this, I become even more irritable and more annoyed, the irritability feeding on…