Helping children cope with back-to-school anxiety involves addressing their concerns, providing support, and creating a positive environment. It is important to encourage your child to express their feelings and concerns about going back to school. Listen actively without judgment and validate their emotions. Be approachable …
I spent most of my life living in fear, playing it safe and staying well within my comfort zone. Two deaths, close together, helped me to realize that I no longer wanted to spend another moment of my life living in fear and playing it safe
I admire Sakshi Shrivastava. Sakshi Shrivastava talks openly about her mental health and deals with it. Sakshi Shrivastava is real, vulnerable, unguarded, and answers without a stitch. Is it any wonder that she has more than 30,000 followers on Linkedin? Recently, a senior manager of …
Emotional wounds are not the same as physical wounds. My body is scarred with physical wounds. I played squash for 15 years. Every muscle, ligament, bone was torn or sprained at some point. The family doctor and the physiotherapist told me time to give it …
We all need healing. Every human being you come across is hurting. We all have to face trauma, loneliness, abandonment, grief, loss, divorce, death, sadness, struggles, and the challenges of life. As a result, we all have stuff hidden in the closet. Those that deal …
An addiction is a disease that you inherit, where mind and body crave something you have consumed more than life itself! It exists due to the disease you inherit, and you may not know you have the disease until you are hooked, and without help, your life could be doomed.
Sherron Grant is a principal at Derrydown Public School. Clovis Grant is the CEO of 360 Kids, an organization committed to ending youth homelessness. Their son Isiah was diagnosed with autism at the age of four. In every support group that Sherron attended, she realized …
What is psychotherapy? Talk therapy also called psychotherapy is to help people deal with challenges in life, emotional difficulties, and mental illness. Psychotherapy helps a person to make their life better through introspection and healing. If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, …
As a society, we have to focus on youth mental health for our own future. “I need help, I have a mental illness‘. That was the shriek from someone on Facebook, I have known for nearly three decades. Her husband had left her along with …
What is Resilience? Resilience is how well people deal with and bounce back from the challenges of life. Resilience is the process of adjusting positively as you face challenges, tragedy, adversity, threats, and major sources of stress like job loss, divorce, financial issues, health problems, …