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How to Feel Less Helpless During Challenging Times

How to Feel Less Helpless During Challenging Times

During difficult times in our lives, whether it’s personal, a relationship, or because of current or global events, it can make you feel helpless as if you have no control over anything. When conflict shows up that is out of your control, it can feel like you can’t impact positive…

Identifying Barriers that Prevent You from Changing Your Life

Identifying Barriers that Prevent You from Changing Your Life

For every new year, people often expect to feel a sense of renewal. “New Year, New Me!” But when you don’t feel like you or anything else has changed, it can make you feel even worse than you did before.  Do you feel stuck in your career or in life…

How to Overcome Feeling Resentful About Where You Are in Life

How to Overcome Feeling Resentful About Where You Are in Life

When you feel stuck in life, it can lead to feeling resentful. There is a lot going on in the world and maybe in your personal life, and perhaps you’re not where you thought you’d be by now. You might have resentment towards society, the state of the world, cost…

How to Let Go of What You Can’t Control

How to Let Go of What You Can’t Control

Have you been feeling more anxious than usual lately? Do you feel the pressure because of expectations placed on you by others or yourself because of your age, gender, or phase of life? Our personal experiences coupled with the election, inflation, climate change, and other global issues can heighten anxiety.…

How Self-Advocacy Can Reduce the Stigma of Schizophrenia

How Self-Advocacy Can Reduce the Stigma of Schizophrenia

In today’s world, mental illness is still, unfortunately, stigmatized. While there is a movement to reduce stigma, we still have a long way to go. It may surprise you, but some of the biggest culprits of fearing and having preconceptions about mental illness are those who have it. I wish…