Bottled up emotions can affect your life in unexpected ways. For this reason, it’s important to recognize if you repressing your emotions too much. We all have moments where it is better to repress our emotions rather than articulate every single feeling we experience. Our society dictates that we should…
Being a functioning alcoholic doesn’t mean falling over in the drunken stupor. Sometimes alcoholics hide their problems really well. I'm not here to bash social drinking and I’m not here to act as an advocate, either. What I am here to do is warn you about the effects of alcohol…
I have been a smartphone user since they were created. Quite frankly, it is a smartphone addiction. Everywhere you go or whatever you do, you run into hundreds of people around you that are glued to the screens of their smartphones. It's a sort of smartphone addiction epidemic. We miss…
We are taught from a young age to be nice to people, to treat others as you want to be treated yourself. But there is a downside to being too nice. Can someone be too nice? In a world where all we seem to hear is bad news, it may…
If you stop using social media, break free of the social expectations and disconnect from it, you will see some significant improvements in your life. The question of social media doing more harm than good has become a huge topic of debate in recent years. Despite its baseline purpose of…
Teens are just as vulnerable to developing mental health disorders as adults. In fact, some mental illnesses develop in the teen years. Other conditions, considered to be “disorders” rather than mental illnesses, such as oppositional defiant disorder, may exist in the teen alongside such illnesses such as depression, anxiety disorders…
From stress reduction to improved attention and memory, meditation is a practice that yields a large number of health benefits. Mediation has slowly been gaining in popularity in recent years, garnering a number of scientific studies to determine the specific effects the practice has on the body. It has been…
Can you change your response to triggers in your environment? You can consider the number of times you've felt anxious, nervous, aroused, or fearful for no apparent reason, but just by looking a sight or smelling a smell, or even thinking about a future scenario in your mind. It is…