The Mind-Body Connection: How Stress Escapes Our Brains and Wreaks Havoc
The mind-body connection helps explain why we sometimes feel awful when we’re stressed out. In this post, you’ll learn even more about its effects.
Anxiety
Pattern Recognition: Fighting Despair with Awareness
Learning the skill of pattern recognition helps us determine which thoughts cause our anguish to grow and pushes us to alter them when they arise.
Face Your Fear: A New, Grounded Take on a Trite Mantra
Cliché phrases are rarely helpful. But, in this post, we’ll put a new spin on an old one (“face your fear”) and use it to gain a leg up against anxiety.
The Sirens: How Anxiety Tempts Us to Shipwreck
Anxiety often tempts us to pay attention to it, much like the sirens from Greek mythology do. Yet, we’ll likely find ourselves in trouble if we oblige.
Occlumency: How to Manage Anxiety Like a Wizard
In the wizarding world, there’s an obscure form of magic — Occlumency — that shows us how to better manage our anxiety. We dive into it here.
Why Anxiety and Visualization Don’t Mix
Anxiety and visualization can make for a destructive duo. Come find out why we’re better off ditching the latter when it comes to the former.
Coronaphobia: Making Sense of COVID Fears Once More
With cases spiking again across the country, it’s time to determine how to proceed with a new phobia we’re encountering: Coronaphobia.
Medusa and Anxiety: How Our Fears Turn Us to Stone
There are many parallels between Medusa and anxiety. Come find out what they are and how our fears often have the same dreaded effect as this monster’s gaze.
What Is Toxic Positivity and Just What’s So Toxic About It?
Toxic positivity tells us to stay optimistic no matter what happens to us. Here’s why we might not actually want to do such a thing.
Chewing Gum and Mental Health: A Novel Way to Regulate and Reduce Stress
A recent study shows us that chewing gum and mental health are at least somewhat connected. Come see how doing the former can improve the latter.