Art has always been a vehicle used by those to express themselves. Various mediums can be used to achieve this, such as painting, woodwork, graphite…
Sofia Isella is a profound singer and songwriter who actively speaks out against rape culture through her music. She frequently sings about the sexualization, objectification…
The lyrics of the 1995 song titled Black Star by Radiohead from their album The Bends are most often interpreted as an individual in a…
Healing the Whole Family is a graphic story written by Grace Chiang in collaboration with mental wellness consultant Eunice Yuen and artist Nealie Ngo. The…
Sylvia Plath’s poem “Tulips” was published in 1965 and in her book “Ariel”, her second collection of published poetry. This collection of poetry was published…
Toxic work culture has created a notion around resiliency where we are led to believe that it stems from working through distress and mental overload. …
Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter born on June 12, 1890, in the small town of Tulln. His interest in art began early, and…
Pursuing a dream can feel both thrilling and exhausting at the same time. Blue Lips by CORTIS is an introspective song that captures this exact…
Siobahn Kaufman, a graduate of the Breda University of Applied Sciences and a resident of the Netherlands, is an emerging painter known for her Dark…
“The Yellow Wallpaper”, a short story written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is an early literary example of how women’s mental health has been…
In the poem TODAY MY ALARM WENT OFF AT 12:30PM, Mira Gonzalez details the routine of someone struggling with depression and substance use issues. Though…
Frida Kahlo, a painter known for her painful and passionate self-portraits, is celebrated for her representation of Mexican and indigenous culture as well as depictions…
With the recent ending of the North American leg of Hilary Duff’s Lucky Me Tour, it feels like an appropriate time to return to the…
“Finding Emily” is a 2026 romantic comedy film directed by Alicia MacDonald and starring Angourie Rice as Emily Raine and Spike Fearn as Owen Brampton….
In her song “The Visitor,” artist Sienna Spiro opens up about her fear of impermanence and being temporary in relationships through her vulnerable lyrics and…
What shapes our mental health? It is easy to imagine psychological distress as something that exists entirely within an individual, a chemical imbalance, a diagnosis,…
American singer-songwriter SZA’s song Saturn explores the desire to escape emotional pain and find a place where life feels lighter. Rather than depicting healing as…
Three years ago, I came across Nikita Gill’s People Aren’t Homes, and the poem’s closing lines have stuck with me ever since. Of all the…
Gen V, a hilarious and much-awaited spin-off of Eric Kripke’s The Boys, takes us to Godolkin University, an institution where a new generation of superheroes…
“Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction” written by Judith Grisel (2019), a behavioural neuroscientist and psychology professor at Bucknell University, was my first…
