recovery
Your illness does not define you. It's your resolve to recover that does.
The Hidden Habits Destroying Your Productivity
It’s 3:14 p.m. on a Tuesday. You’ve answered seventeen emails, reorganized your desktop folders, tweaked your Notion dashboard, and finally, finally cleared that tiny red notification bubble from your project management app. You should feel accomplished. Instead, you feel vaguely hollow—like you’ve been running on a treadmill that someone oiled with anxiety. The real work, the one that requires creative neurons to actually fire, is still sitting there, untouched. And you can’t quite figure out where the hours went.
By Kamel Saidani5 months ago in Psyche
Does every child matter
Does Every Child Matter? For decades, the truth about residential and boarding schools in Canada has lingered in the shadows, only spoken in fragments, denied in silence, or dismissed as inconvenient history or worse, accusing the stories of being “exaggerated That silence is breaking. Stories are being told. Graves are being uncovered. The call for justice is no longer something that can be silenced.
By Bruce Curle `6 months ago in Psyche
Reflection on My Group Counseling Course for My Clinical and Mental Health Master's Degree Program
The idea of submitting my story to the scrutiny of others is both exciting and terrifying. The easy part of my story to share with others is about my childhood experiences. My parents and siblings were all kind and respectful. I never went hungry, and for the most part I feel as if most of my emotional needs were met appropriately. From an early age, I was always helping in the local church. I learned the value for serving God and others from day one in my family unit. I enjoy sharing my testimony of salvation, which occurred when I was six years of age. What I remember more distinctively, is my water baptism experience. My dad baptized me and the symbolism of it truly resonated deeply in my young soul. I was eight years old when I got water baptized. I remember getting a new Bible at this time. Another thing that is easy for me to talk about is my experience being a father to my daughter. Everything I do in life is centered around the welfare and benefit of my daughter, who is growing up far too fast!
By Rowan Finley 6 months ago in Psyche
The Power Of The Breath
Did you know that you breath is the fastest way to calm down when you are feeling dysregulated? Nobody is immune from stress, regardless of age and we all have one thing in common - we react. How we react to stress is different for everyone, but there is a simple way we can all calm:
By Elizabeth Woods6 months ago in Psyche
The Helper's Dilemma In Today's Professional World
Written by a human, for humans, always. --- So many people in today's world need help… And there are many different types of organizations that have come into existence to provide that help.
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM6 months ago in Psyche
Breakups Can Be Mirrors, Not Just Endings
One of the hardest truths I’ve learned is that healing from a breakup is not really about the person who hurt you. At first, it feels like it is. Your mind becomes obsessed with them: what they said, what they did, what they failed to give, what you wish you had said differently, and whether things could have ended another way. You replay conversations, revisit memories, and search for a final explanation that will somehow set you free.
By Cyn Márquez6 months ago in Psyche
Caring for Your Mind Should Be a Daily Practice
Mental health rarely collapses all at once. More often, it fades quietly while we keep going. We answer messages. We go to work. We keep showing up. We smile when needed, make plans, pay bills, and try to act normal. From the outside, everything may look fine. But inside, something is beginning to shift. We become more irritable, more tired, more anxious, more numb. Small things start feeling heavier than they should. We lose patience more easily. We stop enjoying what once made us feel alive. We withdraw, overreact, or hurt ourselves and others without fully understanding why.
By Cyn Márquez6 months ago in Psyche
Mental Health Toolkit: Evidence-Based Techniques That Work
Practical, Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience, Reduce Stress, and Take Control of Your Mind Mental health is no longer something we can treat as optional. In today’s fast-paced, hyper-connected world, stress, anxiety, and emotional burnout have become increasingly common. Yet, despite how widespread these challenges are, many people still struggle to find practical, effective ways to manage them.The truth is, improving mental health doesn’t require complicated systems or drastic lifestyle changes. Instead, it comes down to using the right tools—consistently. Think of mental wellness as something you actively maintain, just like physical health. And just like a toolbox, the more reliable tools you have, the better equipped you are to handle life’s challenges.
By Robert Redford6 months ago in Psyche
The One Who No Longer Absorbs the Bitter. Content Warning.
Please excuse the use of metaphors, symbols, and mythic writing. Please excuse the music I created with my own voice. Please excuse the AI generated metaphorical images of ancient times. Please excuse my filmmaker background. Please excuse my age of 76. Please excuse my abiliyu to want to keep learning which includes AI. Maybe I should crawl back in my 'dark night of the soul' depression. Pease excuse my love for science fiction, art, film, eccentric, and creating too many videos from visions I saw in my dreams. I know the majority of writers on this platform hate AI. So, the stories I create will not be read because you do not believe a 76 year old hippie child could create such nonsense. I do not write for naysayers and anyone who avoids being progessive. I have always been on the cutting edge of technology. I am a REAL LIVE HUMAN BEING.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 6 months ago in Psyche
How Art Became My Lifeline After a Breakup
During one of the hardest periods of my life, creativity became more than a form of self-expression—it became a means of survival. I am far from alone in this; a vast body of evidence supports the healing power of creativity and art. History, too, is filled with examples that speak for themselves.
By Cyn Márquez6 months ago in Psyche
