The Link Between Diet & Depression
Learn which foods can help depression. On top of medication and psychotherapy, it’s important to consider making lifestyle changes.
The Importance of Self-Care
Often times, we fail to recognize our need for self-care because we’re so used to living without it and living on-the-go. Learn why self-care is important.
12 Tips to Stay Motivated
Motivation is what drives us to make things happen. It’s the difference between waking up before dawn to pound the pavement and lazing around the house all day. It’s crucial in setting and attaining goals. But it isn’t always easy to stay motivated. If you’re struggling to get or stay motivated, here are 12 tips to …
5 Symptoms of Postpartum Depression
The experience of having a baby can come with a number of emotions and feelings – joy, happiness, worry, responsibility – and can be stressful even in the best of circumstances. Many new parents go from feeling overjoyed to the reality of being responsible for another’s life. Toppled with lack of sleep, which can lead …
5 Ways to Manage Chronic Pain
Managing Chronic Pain Dealing with pain can be well.. painful. Many people have felt physical pain at one time or another; placing a hand on a hot stove, stubbing a toe on the pesky sidewalk, or biting their tongue while eating. Temporary pain such as these, is often referred to as acute pain. Most …
5 stretches for better sleep
There is nothing quite like being ready to drift off into a sound slumber after a long day. The feel of being surrounded by blankets and pillows…as if you’re lying in one giant cloud. But what happens when you just can’t seem to get there? The following are 5 stretches that you can do just …
8 Things to Know About a Brain Injury
In spite of having so much control and power over the human body, the brain is extremely sensitive and delicate. In saying that, when a person has suffered brain trauma of some sort (whether it be from a motor vehicle accident, playing sports or from falling), it can result in a multitude of implications. In more mild cases, a brain injury can be classified as a concussion but in other cases however, the head trauma can be categorized as a traumatic brain injury.
Benefits of Exercise in Treating Depression
Depression continues to loom and affect millions of people worldwide. When faced with depression or this ‘dark cloud’ so to speak, it can seem like a daunting and monumental task to cope with because it can affect a person’s home, professional, and social life as well as their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. Simply put, depression is a debilitating mental health condition that impacts a person’s day-to-day and quality of life. Treatment for managing depression most commonly includes medication and/or psychotherapy intervention. That is not to say however, that there are not any other remedies that would be beneficial in treating depression.
4 Tips to Improve Self-Esteem
Have you ever thought about how you feel about yourself? This may seem like a simple question to answer, but it can often stump people depending on their level of self-esteem. Self-esteem is a subjective concept and every person’s self-esteem can fluctuate depending on their roles, and life experiences. Often times, having “good self-esteem” can be misunderstood as some people may think it has to do with their appearance or accomplishments. This is no surprise considering what our culture and society emphasizes as being “important”; such as, how fit you are, how many friends you have, or what your job title is.
5 Ways to Melt the Winter Blues
Most people would agree that they feel better on days that are brighter as opposed to days that are dark and cold which is often referred to as “the winter blues.” However, for some people loss of energy, depressive symptoms, low libido, loss of motivation and concentration continue to be experienced throughout the fall and winter months and does not improve until spring.