On WittedRoots.com, the Lifestyle category focuses on informed articles that explore the various aspects of lifestyle + explore how they can contribute to mental health + emotional wellness.
Vacation Days: The Benefits Of Taking A Vacation Per Year
Since my partner and I first met, we’ve dreamed of vacationing in Italy. We’re both drawn to the cultural, artistic, and culinary adventures that await overseas. However, we ended up continually putting off our trip over the years. Unfortunately, this…
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…
Catching Flights Not Feelings: A Reflection On Travel
For the purposes of this article, I’d like to make a quick distinction between traveling and vacationing. Traveling is the process of venturing to another city or country with the purpose of engaging in a cross-cultural experience. Vacationing is the…
A Mansplainer!? How To Deal With Mansplaining At Work
Imagine this: You’re at a friend’s small get-together having a blast. The background music was picked as if it were made to be the soundtrack to your own iconic 90’s movie. Everyone’s enjoying themselves, the conversations are riveting, and laughter…
Social Stigma And Gender-Based Stigma Of Black Women?
Gender-Based Stigma According to Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault, Ph.D., stigma is “a perceived negative attribute that causes someone to devalue or think less of the whole person”. Now apply that to a whole people and we also have a stereotype/social stigma. Both…
How To Stop Procrastinating?: My Personal Experience
My Experience with Procrastination – Part II To quote a book from my childhood: “He who hesitates is lost.” The practice of hesitation through procrastinating has often cast me on a road of self-doubt and has taken me to a…
Anthony Bourdain: Women Of Color Reflect On His Impact
As news of Anthony Bourdain’s death by suicide broke around the world, it was met with a wave of profound sadness. Bourdain’s colleagues and fans recalled the enormous impact he had made, not only as a Chef, Writer, and Television…
The Stigma Around Mental Illness In The Caribbean
A lot of work has been done within Caribbean communities to destigmatize mental illness. There are social enterprises like Wholeness and Wellness Counseling services that provide help to adolescents, women, and men who are struggling with emotional pain in Trinidad….
Traditional Chinese Medicine And Mental Health
Two Centipedes for Sadness, Please The day after my father’s funeral, I awoke with steel knuckles twisting the insides of my abdomen. Waves of nausea and pain rolled over me as I struggled to the bathroom, yet as I curled…
Abhyanga Massage, “Columbusing” Of A Traditional Ayurvedic Ritual
Introducing Abhyanga Massage, The “Exotic” Indian Practice You’ve Probably Never Heard Of … Yet! Abhyanga massage, huh? Sounds exotic! Abhyanga is Sanskrit for… I honestly don’t know, and I don’t fully trust the internet. But it describes an oil massage, a…