Pet therapy is a service that offers animal-assisted emotional support to people struggling with a wide variety of mental health challenges. The animals used in…
Radiohead is an alternative rock band that is known to put out introspective and heartbreaking tracks about the darker aspects of life and “How to…
Individuals feel depersonalization when they repeatedly experience a state in which they believe they are viewing themselves as an external person. It is explained as…
Brainspotting (BSP), the name of a new approach for the treatment of trauma was developed by psychotherapist David Grand. He proposed it as a new…
“After witnessing his father and his uncle being murdered by the military, he fled his country at age of 19 and went through nine countries,…
“The Bell Jar” is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Sylvia Plath and published in 1963. This was the first and last story ever to be…
My husband is a police officer. His profession invites conversation from others in a way that few jobs do, from friends and family asking him…
More than 250,000 new temporary residents land in Canada yearly as international students, skilled workers, and refugees. Many come with the goal of starting a…
Narcissistic people deeply crave the approval of others. This desire stems from an extreme insecurity which makes them hypersensitive to criticism and unable to acknowledge…
Poetry can provide comfort and boost mood during grief, trauma and stress. The use of metaphors, words and rhymes help make sense of the world…
The HBO miniseries “Sharp Objects” is a psychological thriller directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and stars Amy Adams as protagonist Camille Preaker. The series is based…
Chrissie Richards is a professional artist living in Brightlingsea on the North Essex coast in England whose work draws on her life experience. “I wanted…
Although the term breathwork is relatively new, the practice of controlled breathing to improve mental health is ancient. Yogic breathing, or pranayama, was the first…
Killers of the Flower Moon is 2017 a non-fiction novel by the American Journalist David Grann, which is slotted to be released in 2022 as…
In her TEDxSanFrancisco talk, Justine Musk, Canadian author and the first wife of Elon Musk, shares what makes wounded people tell better stories to create…
Canadian author A. J. Vrana’s debut novel, The Hollow Gods, follows the intersecting paths of three characters: Miya, a maladjusted, floundering university student who yearns…
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month in the United States. As women and girls are disproportionately impacted by this type of violence,…
Does time really heal all wounds? As the parent of a child who was diagnosed with cancer, I know that some wounds never do heal…
Richard George Davis is a South African artist who creates surreal dream-like artworks which represent literal interpretations of common language expressions or emotions . The…
Nayo Jones is a spoken word poet and musician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a queer black woman, making her intersecting identities a focal point…
