How To Overcome Self Doubt and Self Deprecation?
This is it. I managed to write for ten weeks, without dying. Well, death is relative in my book, but I did it nonetheless, in spite of constantly feeling like I was not qualified enough to do this task. There...
Spirituality For Beginners: Healing The Mind And Body
What do you think of when you hear “Spirituality For Beginners”? If you were raised religious, particularly under Christianity, you may mistrust the word spiritual. Taking a step back from your beliefs for a moment, consider the word and open...
I Want To Be Single: Fighting Expectations For Marriage And Children
Let us state truths. I am a twenty-something-year-old Black millennial woman with zero aspirations for a husband or children right now. I can see minds churning when I make this sentiment public knowledge. I must be damaged, still healing from...
Attachment vs Detachment In Relationships
“But Do YOU Want To…” Finding The Balance Between Attachment And Detachment I have always been a little different from my family and friends. While they are more outgoing and expressive, I am more reserved and introverted. In hindsight, I...
Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms For Anxiety Attacks
I frequent social media networks that are littered with different people who deal with their anxiety and other mental illnesses in different ways. It is possible that you encounter people dealing with their mental illnesses differently than you expected as...
How Does Family Influence Your Life?: Your Mental Health And Wellbeing
The difference between our generation and those of our parents’ and grandparents’ generations are obvious in several ways, but it is the mental and emotional health aspect that typically gets our millennial blood boiling. If you’re really lucky, you were...
Coping Strategies For Stress And Anxiety
I have always seen the value in writing as a form of self-expression. In my saddest and happiest moments, I turned my eye to my bookshelf, picked up my journal or my poetry book and documented my feelings of that...
Why Is It Important To Be Honest About Your Emotions?
Being Honest About Our Emotions For Personal Growth “I’m good” “I’m okay” We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a family member, a romantic partner, friends, or colleagues. A terse smile in a complicated situation. We all deflect questions about our...
Friends Support Friends: Benefits Of Supportive Friendship
Mental illness can make a person feel isolated and alone. It leaves you vulnerable and incapable of expressing your feelings adequately to others around you. At least it makes you feel that way. Most times, a situation arises where you...
The Menstrual Cycle And Mental Health: PCOS, and PMDD
The link between your menstrual cycle and mental health. Every month, sometimes even twice, women are forced to endure 5-7 days (If your period follows the regular cyclical patterns) of feeling like strangers in their own bodies. There are so...
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...
