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The Holistic Approach to Mental Health
What is holistic therapy? A holistic approach to mental health, in simple terms, means taking all aspects of the person’s lives into account by addressing health as an interconnected system of thoughts, emotions, biology, and social, physical, spiritual and cultural environment. In practice, this means promoting overall wellness and focusing on prevention, rather than treating
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AI in Mental Health
If you’ve ever used ChatGPT or a similar AI language model as a pseudo-therapist, you’re not alone. In fact, its one of the most common uses for AI today, as it can offer comfort and even companionship and an increasingly lonely world. For many, it has real benefits, but research suggests it also carries significant
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Asking for What You Need
We all have different needs, and in an ideal world, we would get them met with ease, and feel no shame in accommodating ourselves. However, many of us have learned that having needs=being needy, from experiences in childhood with our caregivers, at school with teachers and peers, or from our first romantic relationships. This is
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Self-Objectification – How Seeing Ourselves Through Other’s Eyes Harms Mental Health
If you’ve ever felt ashamed of your body, you are not alone. Body image issues are not just personal struggles, they are rooted in larger cultural systems. Shame is a powerful emotion – and a tool for social control – if we’re too busy being ashamed of ourselves, how can we show up for others
