Mental Health Blog

Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.

Thriving, Not Just Surviving
February 20, 2026

Emotional Intelligence: The Research Behind the Buzzword

Someone in your workplace is described as having high emotional intelligence. What do you picture? Maybe someone who stays calm under pressure, reads the room...

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Thriving, Not Just Surviving
February 20, 2026

Boundaries: What They Actually Are and Why They’re Hard

You cancel plans with a friend because you’re exhausted, then spend the next three hours feeling guilty about it. You say yes to covering a...

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Thriving, Not Just Surviving
February 20, 2026

Humor and Mental Health: More Than Just Laughing It Off

She’d been through two rounds of cancer treatment, the second harder than the first. When a hospital chaplain visited and asked how she was coping,...

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Thriving, Not Just Surviving
February 20, 2026

Nature and Mental Health: The Science of Getting Outside

In 1984, a researcher named Roger Ulrich published a study in Science that examined recovery rates of surgery patients at a Pennsylvania hospital. Some patients...

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Thriving, Not Just Surviving
February 20, 2026

Creativity and Mental Health: Why Making Things Matters

A woman who’d been in treatment for depression for two years started drawing again, something she’d done as a child and abandoned in her twenties....

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Thriving, Not Just Surviving
February 20, 2026

Exercise and Mental Health: What the Evidence Actually Shows

The patient hadn’t left her apartment in nine days. Depression does that: it saps the energy required to do the things that would help, which...

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Thriving, Not Just Surviving
February 20, 2026

Sleep and Mental Health: The Relationship Is More Bidirectional Than You Think

Matthew Walker, who directs the Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley, opens his 2017 book “Why We Sleep” with an uncomfortable claim: there...

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Thriving, Not Just Surviving
February 20, 2026

Social Connection: The Single Strongest Predictor of Wellbeing

The Harvard Study of Adult Development has been running since 1938. Researchers tracked 724 men over the span of their lives, following their health, relationships,...

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Thriving, Not Just Surviving
February 20, 2026

What Does It Mean to Flourish? The Psychology of Thriving

You’ve gotten through the hard part. The crisis has passed, the worst of the depression lifted, the anxiety is manageable now. Your therapist calls it...

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Therapy Information
February 20, 2026

Narrative Therapy: Rewriting Your Story

At some point, the story became the truth. Not consciously — you didn’t decide “I am an anxious person” or “I am someone who can’t...

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