mindfulness

When asked what the worst thing about having sex, is nearly one in three women say it is body shame. Lovehoney, a sex toy company, conducted a survey with 3000 people, asking them the same question. Men's top worry about sex was when it…

If you are suffering from mild depression, you might be wondering what treatments you could try right now. Everyone gets unhappy, angry, and down in the dumps at times. When does a negative emotion turn from normal to worrisome? When it…

Overview Your thoughts can be extremely powerful and influential to your feelings. Sometimes, they can feel overwhelming. Especially when you start to have thoughts of ending your life. You are not alone. In a  New York Times article, it…

Depression, like any mental illness, is challenging to understand from the outside. Perhaps this is why it too often gets mistaken for sadness. Medical depression, however, runs so much deeper. As Ned Vizzini explained, “I didn't want to…

“Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life...My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something,” wrote Elizabeth Gaskell. There's nothing wrong with…

Social anxiety is a daily struggle. As human beings, we have a deep need for personal connection. Social anxiety strongly inhibits this. Its presence can cause even small tasks to become truly challenging. Many of us turn to spirituality…

Our beliefs are habits of mind, our acceptance that a statement is true or something exists. We feel trust in something or someone as a result of our beliefs. Actually, the same brain laws apply to our formation of beliefs as when we learn…