Mental Health Blog

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

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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Therapy Information
February 20, 2026

Schema Therapy: Healing Deep Patterns from Childhood

You’ve done plenty of work on yourself. You understand where your patterns come from. You can articulate, with real clarity, how your childhood experiences shaped...

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Therapy Information
February 20, 2026

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Skills for Intense Emotions

Your emotions don’t come at medium volume. When something hurts, it really hurts. When something excites you, it’s electric. When someone disappoints you, the feeling...

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Therapy Information
February 20, 2026

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Living by Your Values

You’ve tried telling yourself to stop worrying. You’ve told yourself the anxious thoughts aren’t rational, that you’re catastrophizing, that you need to just let it...

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Therapy Approaches
February 20, 2026

How to Find a Therapist in Pennsylvania (A Practical Guide)

You’ve decided you want to find a therapist. You open Psychology Today’s therapist finder, type in your zip code, and ninety-four results appear. You click...

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