Heal A Healing Game Changer You Might Be Skipping Learn to bear with what’s going on inside. That means learning to observe and tolerate the heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations that register misery and humiliation. Only then can you start to befriend rather than obliterate, the emotions that keep you in fixed and immutable maladaptive behaviors. Erasing awareness and cultivating denial are often essential to […] Written by Joel Mwakasege May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal 4 Deep Questions About Mental Health that Help With Your Healing Four deep questions about mental health arose while talking to my sister about healing recently : 1. Do therapists heal you? The short answer is no, they don’t — you heal yourself. Overwhelmed by all kinds of fears, insomnia, endometriosis, food addiction, and overall dissatisfaction with my life, I too hoped that someone or something […] Written by Andra Cioltan-Draghiciu, PhD March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal How to Heal Emotional Trauma Stored In the Body (Plus, a Useful Suggestion that Strikes the Balance) Emotional trauma impedes the capacity to decern what is going on inside the body. This causes you to be out of touch with your needs. Trouble to take care of yourself, whether it involves eating the right amount at the right time, getting enough sleep, or lack of a nuanced response to frustration, not discerning […] Written by Joel Mwakasege February 20, 2021February 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal How to Deal with Loss and Grief a Short Guide A story of how to deal with loss and grief starts with my grandmother as she tells me stories of a chicken she lived with throughout the Korean War. Amid the blood, guns, and hunger of the 1950s, a seven-year-old Moon Hua Ji found a way to smile through chicken whispering: the tongue she used […] Written by Hanmin Lee February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal 3 Subtle Signs of Emotional Trauma Disruptions On Our Mental health Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. To people who have signs of emotional trauma disruptions, nothing makes sense; they are trapped in a life-or-death situation, a state of paralyzing fear or blind rage. Signs […] Written by Joel Mwakasege February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal The Importance of Social Support in Health and Wellness The importance of social support in health and wellness does not come from isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group. Extreme isolation only promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only leads to further alienation. Gangs, extremist political parties, and religious cults may provide solace. But […] Written by Joel Mwakasege January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal How to Recover from Emotional Trauma How to recover from emotional trauma is laborious and as long as the trauma is not resolved, the stress hormones that the body secretes to protect itself keep circulating, and the defensive movements and emotional responses keep getting replayed. The overwhelming experience is split off and fragmented, so that the emotions, sounds, images, thoughts, and […] Written by Joel Mwakasege January 21, 2021January 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal 5 Causes of Psychological Disorders Causes of psychological disorders remain ever elusive. But occasionally psychological problems occur; When our internal signals don’t work, When our maps don’t lead us where we need to go, When we are too paralyzed to move, When our actions do not correspond to our needs, When our relationships break down. If you feel safe and […] Written by Joel Mwakasege January 15, 2021January 18, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal Mental Health Healing Process is More than What You Think It’s difficult. The work can take a lot of energy. If you could have solved these problems easily, I’m sure you would have done it already. And to make matters even trickier, problems with feelings often include a layer of guilt or shame. Unlike most other medical problems, when it comes to the mental health […] Written by Joel Mwakasege December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal How Long Does it Take to Recover from Postpartum Depression? There are a million reasons I had postpartum depression (PPD). In fact, there were so many reasons that I quickly became overwhelmed. I was afraid I wouldn’t have the strength to even try and fix it all, so instead, I resorted to withering away. How long does it take to recover from postpartum depression was […] Written by itoldthemoon December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal How to Defeat the Tyranny of Borderline Personality Disorder If there was a Yelp page for Borderline Personality Disorder, there would be some mixed reviews. While I’ve heard some people refer to those with Borderline Personality Disorder as “blooming flowers; gentle and sensitive, but worth opening up,” I’ve also heard others use words like, “unlovable,” “manipulative,” “destructive,” or “impulsive.” I can live with those […] Written by Melissa Maney September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Heal Finally . . . A Guide to Shut Down Your Inner Critic for Plain Folks But, Brene sparked a healing process I didn’t even know I needed. Apparently, my inner critic had its roots in, what therapists refer to as, adverse childhood events. Written by Monique September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
One More Medical Treatment that Causes Infertility In Women I was 11 years old, waiting for the doctor to call me and my mom to come to see him. It was an exciting day that every relatively tall 11-year-old would experience; the day you get a glimpse into the future. They must have run a handful of tests, but I only remember finding out […] Written by Ysabeau Kloeg July 31, 2021August 10, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
When I Say I Love You I Mean It When I say I love you I mean it. I’m talking about how I feel when you open up the front door after a long day at work. The door swings open, you roll your bike into the kitchen, and a smile forms on your face. It quickly makes it way to your kind eyes […] Written by Abby Quigle July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
4 Steps to Recover From Anxiety and Depression I took several steps to recover from anxiety and depression. But the moment I realized the severity of it all, I was sixteen years old. One night I had stripped down to take a shower, and before stepping in, I saw a profile of my body; I had always been a thin kid, but horror […] Written by Simon Hoffman January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How to Journal for Anxiety and Depression: 3 Things to Journal About In my first year of college, I was anxious all the time. It was likely a result of not sleeping enough combined with stress. The pinching feeling in my chest haunted me to the extent that I couldn’t sleep at night. For me, anxiety manifests in a quick heartbeat and a tight feeling in my […] Written by Amy Tang January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Lessons from Motherhood Trenches Our daughter was born ten years after we got married. Not that we did not think of starting a family before, but life was so full of late-night parties, impromptu vacations, hanging out, and hangovers, it left no space for a little one. With the biological clock ticking away, we finally took the plunge and […] Written by Payal Koul October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Pregnancy During a Pandemic PREGNANCY DURING A PANDEMIC is different. Everyone is experiencing a different version of the current pandemic. Some are still doing an excellent job in the health sector, collecting our rubbish and serving us in supermarkets. Others are at work or working from home in a way they’ve never done before. Written by Karen Love June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
