How To Build A Healthy Relationship With Yourself
Let me set the tone for this article, Alexa play ‘Rise Up’ by Andra Day. The Caterpillar Stage Just like the butterfly, everyone has been through various circumstances which made them who they are today—let us call it The Caterpillar…
Post Traumatic Growth: The Recovery Journey Within
The Beginning The beach has always been so therapeutic for me. Here I am, with the wind fighting my coils to get to my scalp, the birds flying high, and I am watching a crab make its way out of…
How To Take A Break: Your Mental Health Needs It
The Need To Take A Break “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get,” by Lewis Caroll perfectly encapsulates my thoughts on this topic. Very often we find it so difficult to slow down—we would rather take on the world…
How Failure Is The Key To Success In Life?
Have you ever wanted to step out of your comfort zone and do something outside the box? Have you ever tried but got stuck in thought because of questions such as “what if I fail? “What if it doesn’t work…
Do I Have PTSD?: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Women
My personal experience with PTSD: I hope you are comfortable because it is storytime. Last December, I was in my first (and hopefully last) accident. I followed all the road protocols, looking left and right on a one-way street because…
Is The Law Of Attraction Real?: Manifestation Techniques
I am sure that many of you, if not all, have heard the saying “life and death is in the power of the tongue.” Just as how uttering certain things into the universe may alter life as you know it,…
What To Do After A Breakup?: The Impacts Of A Heartbreak
I would tell you to close your eyes, but then how would you read the prompt? Just imagine then. Imagine the excruciating, heartrending, mouth-numbing pain that you feel in the moment when your heartbreak. The impression of hurt when the…
How To Leave An Emotionally Abusive Relationship?
The Invisible Wound: Don’t you just love when your partner makes you feel less than who you are and what you deserve? I remember working at a hotel during one summer and I got the shock of my life when…
Mental Health Stigma: Am I Weak For Needing Help?
Imagine living in a world where persons were not shunned for or felt the shame of stigma attached to having a mental illness. Better yet, imagine living in a world where 95% of the world’s population was well-read on mental…
What Is Emotional Intelligence: Feeling Too Much/Too Little
In a world where people are constantly ridiculed, we are often faced with the daring question “am I feeling too much or am I feeling too little?” Many of us have likely experienced an occasion where we are triggered to…
My Boyfriend Wants An Open Relationship, But I Don’t
So, my boyfriend of three years recently told me that he wants an open relationship. If that wasn’t bad enough, he brought it to my knowledge in a way that makes it seem like I have no choice but to…
Mother, I Don’t Want To Get Married
My boyfriend and I have lived in the same community for pretty much our whole lives. We’ve known each other for so long that, at least to me, we’re more like brother and sister than anything else. My mother is…
