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
My Mom Makes Me Feel Bad About My Body and 4 Lessons I Learned As a child I wasn’t taught particularly good eating habits — in my family we ate because it was mealtime and not because we were hungry, and we always finished everything that was on the plate. Every meal was followed by pudding, including school dinners. As a result, I was always a little on the […] Written by Ellie Adams July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
3 Reasons Why Am I Single at 30 Yes I am in my 30’s. No I’m not married . No I do not have children. Why am I single at 30? I’ll explain. Am I okay with that? Yes. Are you?? #1 – Life is messy Like most young girls at the age of 13, I had my life planned out. I had dreams […] Written by Kerri Donaldson July 17, 2021July 17, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
I Miss My Father Who Passed Away I miss my father who passed away in 2016 on New Year’s Day, when I was 26. It was the second time we lost him—the first was five years earlier when a massive stroke hemorrhaged through his brain, leaving him hospitalized and in rehabilitation for the better part of two years. He never fully recovered. […] Written by Allison Ruttger July 19, 2021July 19, 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 and […] Written by Simon Hoffman January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Story of an Indian girl-seeking her identity Sitting in my study, looking out the window to the grey of monsoon. Thundering clouds and cold sharp breeze, makes me wonder about the years that have passed. Just like a painters promise to its blank canvas, it was hindsight’s promise of realization to me. Lived an itinerant life, my family moved around a lot […] Written by Yashi Rana November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Counter Intuitive Truth About Life Life is messy. Nothing rarely goes to plan. If it goes to plan. The plan will change. The plan implies control. Do you feel in control? I don’t. Control is an illusion. From clever men. Who believe they can control the ocean. Or tame it. The ocean is the ocean. The hope is to navigate […] Written by Joel Mwakasege May 2, 2017May 2, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
