Wellness is a word that is often tossed around without full knowledge or background on all that it includes. Wellness is defined as a lifestyle of balanced, healthy attitudes and choices designed to improve your personal performance on a variety of levels and enhance the overall quality of your life. The 7 areas of wellness are:   Social Wellness: The process[…]

Mental health and physical health are often put into two separate categories. We understand that they’re both important, but we isolate the two topics without understanding the overlap that they have and the effects they can have on each other. When our physical health is suffering, our mental health can also suffer. And in the same way,[…]

When we see that someone is struggling with their mental health, it can often be intimidating to address these concerns. We don’t want to alarm the person or make them think that something is wrong with them, but we also know that getting help is often needed. Below, we’ve listed 5 different ways that you[…]

Stress is something that at one point in our lives we will all experience. Levels of stress vary from person to person, but a lot of times our stress boils down to one thing: control. We seek to control so many aspects of our life, and when we have to let go of that control or we[…]

You might be familiar with the concept of gender norms and stereotypes. They’ve existed for generations, and in many ways, they control our world. Some examples of gender norms include the expectation that women are the ones to do housework like dishes and laundry, while men do the manual labor like mowing the lawn and fixing the[…]

Suicide is a hard topic to talk about, but one way to make the topic feel more approachable is to become educated on it. From the causes of suicide, to why people choose to attempt, to the risk factors of suicide, there are many aspects of suicide that we can learn about. When it comes[…]

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, it’s been important for us to socially distance in order to keep ourselves and our communities safe. However, doing so has led to an increasingly high rate of individuals feeling isolated and lonely. Some might say “Why care about isolation and loneliness when there are thousands dying from this disease?” While this is 100% valid, it’s[…]

The terms “stress” and “anxiety” are both words that are used commonly in our language. They’re often used interchangeably, but this doesn’t mean that they’re the same thing. In fact, while the two can have the same symptoms, there are significant differences between stress and anxiety that are important to understand.   When we think of stress[…]

Establish an Enjoyable Routine.  We’ve all heard that it’s important to get into a routine. But what makes routines even better is when it’s filled with things that we enjoy. For me, part of my daily routine includes going to a workout class and stopping at Starbucks! These are two things that I enjoy and that I look[…]

With more and more information out there about mental illnesses, it has left so many of us wondering if we might have a mental illness, and if so… what do we do?? While there isn’t one set of steps that will work for everyone, we’ve listed 3 tips below for some next steps that you can take to address[…]