Tag: anxiety
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Coping With Anxiety: Ways to Calm Your Mind and Regain Control
While anxiety can be overwhelming, it doesn’t have to control your life. If you’re ready to feel more like yourself again, try these anxiety coping mechanisms.
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How Do You Know: You Need Help?
When life is hard, it’s tempting to “tough it out” and hope things get better on their own. But ignoring problems rarely creates a solution. When it comes to your mental health, this is especially true. Professional help exists for a reason, and it can give you back an emotionally and mentally healthy life.
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The Healing Power of Silence
Is silence good for you? Today, meditation and mindfulness use the discipline of getting quiet to boost mental health. Research has shown that silence can actually decrease stress and lower blood pressure, among other benefits. So how can you experience the healing power of silence, and what does that look like?
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Social Media’s Problem With Predatory Algorithms
Can social media algorithms be altered so that they don’t lead users down a toxic path? Even if so, how can we protect ourselves — and especially more vulnerable users, like children and teens — in the meantime?
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Taking Away the Stress from Test-Taking
By Wesley Gallagher Test-taking — and the anxiety that comes along with it — are part of every school year, whether it’s brought on by final exams, standardized testing, or the dreaded SAT. It’s perfectly normal to have some anxiety around test-taking. Tests are a big deal, after all, and a certain amount of nervousness…
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Early Empty Nesters
By Wesley Gallagher Technology. It’s everywhere, for better or for worse. Children, in particular, are surrounded by it. While many adults remember a time when there were no laptops or cell phones, kids these days have been holding iPhones since before they could walk, and it’s changing the way young people grow up. Parents of…
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Combatting Comparison Culture
Social media fuels comparison culture, pushing idealized lifestyles that harm self-esteem and mental health, leading to mental health issues.
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When Fear Causes Anxiety & Depression
By Anna McKenzie Fear can protect us from harm, but it can also cause harm. When we feel constantly under threat — whether from our circumstances or unresolved trauma — we become vulnerable to developing mental health issues or experiencing a mental health crisis. So, how should we respond when we feel fear? Learning to…
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Leaning into Fear
“We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us.”rn-Thich Nhat Hanh These days, you don’t have to look very far to witness the powerful effects of fear. Just take a stroll (in your mind) down your local supermarket’s toilet paper…
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The Anxiety of Living with Unresolved Grief
By Tian Dayton, Ph.D., Psychologist, Author, Psychodramatist, Senior Fellow at The Meadows Grief that’s out in the open, part of the natural cycle of life, or part of one of life’s tragic circumstances has a dignity to it. The person experiencing a loss feels that they have a right to grieve and accept care and…
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Practicing Mindfulness Meditation
By Joyce Willis, Therapist at The Meadows Mindfulness is the innate ability to be fully present and aware of where we are and what we’re doing while not being overreactive or overwhelmed by what’s happening around us. Mindfulness meditation allows you to slow down racing thoughts, release negativity, and connect with your body and mind.…
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Sobriety and the Prevalence of Depression and Anxiety
By Heidi Kinsella, MA, LMHCA, NCC, ASATFamily Counselor, Gentle Path at The Meadows After news of the sudden death of actor and comedian Robin Williams, I was amazed by the impact this incident was having on people. I read post after post from my friends on Facebook about their sadness from the loss of such…