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Healing from Loss: Helpful Strategies for Coping With Heightened Anxiety
After losing a loved one, you expect to feel deeply sad. People often conceptualize grief as a pervasive sense of sorrow that affects every area of your life, sapping your energy and making it difficult to focus on anything except your loved one’s passing.

What is Radical Acceptance? The DBT Skill Explained
Learning how to practice acceptance in the midst of troubling times is a key skill. Radical acceptance is a cornerstone of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Here’s how you can start implementing these helpful principles in your daily life.

Illness Anxiety Disorder: Recognizing Symptoms and Seeking Help
If you struggle with anxiety, you might be prone to catastrophizing. Thinking about possible negative outcomes for any situation makes you feel like you’re prepared for anything.

Overcoming the Weight of Failure: Strategies for Coping with Feelings of Underachievement
It may seem like everyone else in your life has succeeded in reaching their own goals. No one really understands what you’re going through. You might even be avoiding opening up to others because you’re embarrassed about your failures. But failure can be a learning opportunity. Plus, you may be surprised by how much you’ve already accomplished. Here’s how to cope with uncomfortable feelings around failure and underachievement.

Understanding the Role of Distress Tolerance in DBT
Everyone faces uncomfortable situations in life. That’s why learning to let go of anxiety and maintain a grounded perspective in the midst of frustrating circumstances is such a valuable ability.

How to Build Adaptive Stress Responses to Help Anxiety
Developing adaptive stress responses will strengthen your emotional resilience and help you navigate difficult situations without feeling anxious. Here’s how to gradually change your response to stress so that you can let go of your anxiety.

Living in Uncertainty: Navigating Anxiety from the Roe v. Wade Decision
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade represented an unprecedented rollback for women’s rights in modern American politics.

Understanding the Mental Health Impact of Infertility
If you’ve been struggling with infertility, you might be frustrated with the physical and emotional aspects of this difficult path.

From Fear to Fuel: Transforming Anxiety into Motivation
Anxiety, often viewed as a hindrance, can be a powerful catalyst for personal growth and achievement. By reframing your perspective, you can harness the energy of anxious thoughts and transform them into motivation.

Setting Boundaries: How Saying ‘No’ Can Boost Your Self-Esteem
We live in a world where we’re often pulled in what feels like a million different directions. As these areas become a consistent source of stress, it might be time to establish some boundaries. Boundaries offer you a personal set of guidelines and limitations that you can use to improve your quality of life.

Anxiety and Social Media: Are They Related?
Relying on social media can be detrimental to anxiety.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Anxiety
Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is an extremely common type of therapy that is used worldwide to treat a range of psychological problems. It has been proven to be extremely effective and is one of the most researched forms of therapy

Postpartum Anxiety: How to Notice the Signs & Symptoms

How To Stop Being A People-Pleaser

What Is People-Pleasing?
People-pleasing is an overwhelming desire to gain approval, avoid conflict, and ensure the happiness of others, and can significantly impact an individual's life, relationships, and well-being.

ADHD Focus Tips

5 Ways to Prevent an Anxiety Attack

Panic Attack or Anxiety Attack? How to Know the Difference

Part 2: How to Overcome Perfectionism
Perfectionism can completely take over your life if you let it. It can cause problems in your career, relationships, and even with your own family. Thankfully, there are things you can do to overcome perfectionism

The Difference Between EMDR and Brainspotting
EMDR and Brainspotting have both seen a rise in popularity over the last several years. On the surface, they have similar characteristics. They can also both be used to help release trauma from your memories and eventually overcome the effects of that trauma. While both methods can be effective, they’re also more different than you might think.