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…
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…
David Ritter’s poem Gone tells the story of someone trapped in the painful cycle of addiction and the long journey to recovery. Through repetition and…
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Besser van der Kolk is a popular book about the…
A resurgence of thin-biased, toxic norms is fueling a new wave of body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, and a rising global prevalence of eating disorders. Eating…
The poem The Guest House by the 13th-century poet Jalaluddin Rumi is a timeless invitation to welcome every emotion, pleasant or painful, into our lives….
Maid (2021), based on Stephanie Land’s memoir, follows Alex, a young mother who leaves an abusive relationship with her two-year-old daughter. Played by Margaret Qualley,…
Stephen Covey, in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, uses the following analogy: “Suppose you wanted to arrive at a specific location in central…
In Colourblind (2013), singer-songwriter Natalie Wilson traces the subtle ache of trauma not through scream or breakdown, but through quiet dissociation. The song unfolds like…
Abuse and harm are not unique to a particular society or culture—it is witnessed in many areas around the globe. The Youtube channel, “ito can’t…
Breaking the vicious cycle of addiction is never easy. For Metallica frontman James Hetfield, Bleeding Me was written as a way to express his feelings…
Girl, Interrupted, based on the memoir by Susanna Kaysen, is a powerful film about mental illness and being a young woman in a world that…
In the video titled Why You Can’t Just ‘Get Over’ Trauma: The Science Behind Healing, Dr. Erica Lee, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, delves…
There’s a quiet devastation in realizing that your efforts didn’t lead where you hoped. In the End by Linkin Park is a gripping anthem of…
The cascading waterfall in this photograph, a torrent of white against the dark, rugged rock, is a visceral experience even in its stillness. You can…
This poem, “A Thank You Letter to My Ex,” is a powerful testament to resilience and self-reclamation after a potentially traumatic relationship. It’s a…
Singer and songwriter Yungblud released an emotional song in 2024 titled “Breakdown.” which is a raw expression of the emotional chaos that often accompanies depression…
For many, the phrase “just a little OCD” is tossed around casually. It’s used to describe tidy desks, alphabetized spice racks and symmetrical picture frames….
Brenna Twohy’s spoken word poem Anxiety: A Ghost Story captures the restless, all-consuming nature of anxiety. She uses humor and haunting metaphors to compare living…
