How Changing Your Outlook Can Change Your College Experience
College is a challenge, but it gets easier. There are many obstacles that you have to face and eventually overcome as a student, sigh. But...
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Why I'm Moving Home After My First Year Of College
Between visiting home and calling my friends from my childhood I knew something inside was telling me that this couldn’t last for long.
Why We Need To End The Stigma Around Therapy
Even though there has been some improvement, we still have a ways to go...
Mind IS Matter: How Changing Your Perception of Social Media Changes Your Reality
Who knew such a small fix could do so much?
Love Letters for Self-Love
Since about two years ago, though, I started purposefully writing love letters and love notes to myself. It sounds dorky, but it is a practical way to affirm yourself. It is good “self-talk” practice. I wrote these to myself on my notes, or as texts to myself! I’ll share a few with you with some tips/notes about it… in case you wanted to try these too!
"You Are Love." A Super Long Poem to Self.
You are love. You are the thankfulness when you left your heater on. You are the Calm Meditation radio on Pandora when you need a break. You are the fuzzy socks that you waited so long to buy for yourself.
3 Ways We Can Lean into Tech for Mental Health
How we experience the world is different from our parents and the older generations. How we learn to cope with the world is different too. Our generations seem to be leaning in to tech for help.
An Open Letter: I’m Back, Her Campus George Mason
Last semester, I had a life changing experience. For the first time in my life, I experienced a darker feeling of sadness and anxiety. A...
Comparing Yourself to Others
Flowers are pretty and so are Christmas lights — but they look nothing alike. I don’t know why we do this to ourselves sometimes. Negative...
How Meditation Improved My Life
Meditation isn’t as difficult or strange as some people make it out to be.
Thank You, Dan Howell
Hello internet.
Learning to Love My Own Body
Between the ages of 10 and 12, I was overweight, and the heaviest I had ever been in my entire life. As a child, my parents were always...
How to Maintain Mental Minimalism During Finals
Less Stress, More Success!
Why We All Need An Instagram Detox...ASAP
Sometimes we just need to disconnect.
My Journey with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Writing about my anxiety is not something I thought I would ever have to do. For a long time, I thought that talking about my mental...
Running on Empty: Experiencing Emotional Burnout
As the academic year comes to an end, it is common to feel like your metaphorical tank is empty. It is common to hear someone say when they...
Caught in a Mental Headlock
I got caught in a new mental headlock recently and it helped me realize that my headlocks aren’t about certain topics, they are about a piece of logic I can’t solve… a paradox.
The Importance in Prioritizing Your Energy: Some Things Just Don’t Matter
News flash: Who cares.
Her Story: This Is My Mental Health
I have always grown up as a happy person. I have always been the one with laughter, a smile; the one to bring the energy into the room and...
