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…
Addiction is often described as something physical, but Maria Mastay’s poem Addiction reveals how deeply emotional and psychological the experience can become. Rather than focusing…
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…
Anorexia nervosa is a complex eating disorder characterized by severe food restriction, leading to a dangerously low body weight. Individuals with anorexia nervosa often experience…
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…
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 today’s episode, Contributing Writer Ruby Kagan speaks with James Downs, a lived experience mental health research expert in eating disorders, looking at the label…
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…
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…
