How We Talk About Mental Health Matters
The practice of seeking support when we’re distressed is typically associated with emotional well-being. It makes sense: Most of us believe that having somebody—a friend, a parents, a therapist—who listens to all our travails...
How to Stop Jumping to Conclusions
What makes you tick?
This is the question that drew me to psychiatry in the first place. What interested me most was not what people did but why they did it. What I have learned...
Why Learning From Failure Is the Key to Success
Without any experience in retail and very little cash, Sara Blakely founded Spanx when she was 29 years old. How did she do it? Was it her parents’ kind words and doting support? Not...
An Antidote for the End-of-Summer Blues
Too soon?
It may only be August but pumpkin spice season is officially upon us. Brands are already rolling out their fall-inspired offerings and Christmas merch is popping up too. Apparently this is known as “Christmas Creep.” Long...
Are We Afraid of the Wrong Things?
After all these years, the movie Jaws still haunts me. I love to swim in the ocean but lurking in the back of my mind is the possibility of a man-eating monster lurking just...
Get a Hobby. Seriously…
How do you spend your free time?
Before you say, “Free time? I don’t have any free time” consider the following. According to the most recent American Time Use Survey even busy people have more free time...