Living with bipolar disorder, I’ve learned that irritability and anger can wreck relationships, strain families, and even hurt our careers. I’m not a mental health professional, but I’ve lived with this condition long enough (and educated myself enough) to know exactly how destructive these flare-ups…
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Finding Happiness When Everything Feels Heavy
Life has a way of throwing all sorts of challenges our way, but there are still countless reasons to be happy. I find that it’s often the small, everyday things that can bring the most joy. Taking time to notice and fully appreciate them is…
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How is your mental health?
How is Your Mental Health, Really? A Personal Reflection We live in a world where we are constantly encouraged to stay busy, productive, and successful. Between deadlines, social obligations, and the daily grind, it can be easy to forget to ask ourselves one simple question:…
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Weird Things That Anxiety Makes You Do
Living with anxiety isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s a quiet war happening entirely in your head, a constant loop of what-ifs, imaginary worst-case scenarios, and a never-ending stream of self-doubt. Anxiety doesn’t always show up the way people expect. It’s not just panic attacks or…
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I Will Rise Up – For Those Moments When Your Depression Makes You Want to Give up
I heard this song for the first time a while ago when I was fighting a deep depression. Since then I always see light (like when there’s a beautiful sunset) in the background and think of being powerful and moving all the obstacles when they…
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Harmony and Healing: The Practice of Ho’oponopono Meditation
In a world that constantly asks us to rush, to react, to keep pushing through, it’s no wonder so many of us feel overwhelmed, disconnected, and emotionally heavy. But healing doesn’t always come through doing more. Sometimes, it comes through softening. Through stillness. Through a…
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Embracing Gratitude: A Prescription for Health and Wellbeing
Life moves fast. Between the stress, the noise, and the routines that never seem to stop, we often forget to slow down and look around. We forget that there’s beauty here, even in the ordinary. Gratitude is one of the most powerful tools I know…
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100 Alternatives to Self-Harm
Please Share this Post – You Never Know Who Needs It✨ Trigger Warning: Mentions of self-harm. Please read with care. If you’re reading this and you’re in pain, I see you. And I need you to hear this: you are not alone. There’s no shame…
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Dating Someone With Bipolar Disorder
As a woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I’m not naïve to how people often respond to the label. That’s exactly why I wrote this. If you’re dating (or thinking of dating) someone with a mental illness, take a moment to drop the assumptions and open…
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You’re Not Alone
Literally, figuratively, emotionally, spiritually – you’re not alone in what you’re going through.But I know.That sentence can feel hollow when the world around you is quiet and no one’s picking up the phone. They say, “You’re not the only one,” and they’re right – your…