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Food Beyond Numbers: How Calorie Labels Impact Mental Health
The rise of calorie labeling on restaurant menus has sparked conversations about its potential benefits and unintended consequences. At...
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More Than Just Stories: Picture Books as tools for Building Resilience
Children’s picture books hold a unique and powerful role in nurturing young minds, offering more than simple entertainment or basic...
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Beyond the Ban: Balancing Social Media & Teen Mental Health
The idea of banning social media for teenagers has sparked significant debate, especially as governments, like Australia’s have now...
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When Therapy Goes Wrong: Breaking up with "Bad" Therapists
Therapy can be a powerful, life-changing journey - a space to process deep emotions, gain insight, and work toward healing. Yet, as...
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Building Resilience: The Power of Social Emotional Learning
Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, is often described as an approach to education that extends beyond academic knowledge to focus on...
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Embracing Neurodiversity: Building a World Where Everyone Belongs
Supporting neurodivergent individuals, whether children, teens, or adults, is a journey that calls for empathy, understanding, and...
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The Heir & The Spare: Growing up as a Scapegoat Child
Family is supposed to be a safe haven, a place where every child feels valued and loved unconditionally. Yet, in some families, children...
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Children as Puppets: The Silent Control of Toxic Families
In a world where family is often seen as a source of unconditional love and support, it can be challenging to accept that, for some,...
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Grief Doesn’t Expire: Embracing the Journey of Healing
Grief is often spoken about as though it has a beginning, middle, and end. Many of us are told that grief fades, that time heals all...
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Silent Grief: Why Abortion Loss Belongs in Baby Loss Discussions
The topic of baby loss is heart-wrenching and complex, encompassing everything from stillbirth to miscarriage, but often missing from...
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Invisible Wounds: Recognizing the many Faces of Abuse
Abuse is often depicted in stark, physical terms—images of bruises, broken bones, and confrontations. This narrow focus on physical...
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When you Love someone who is struggling with their Mental Health
Relationships are hard work. You can ask this to anyone who is in one or has been in one and they will tell you that choosing the same...
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Boundaries: Why we need them & How we can build them
Most of us have heard the term ‘boundaries’ and know what the term means, but we don’t really know what boundaries really are. The term...
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The Mental Health implications of restricted access to Abortions
Abortion, the medical or surgical termination of a pregnancy, is one of the oldest, most common, and yet one of the most controversial...
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Cancel Culture affects Everyone - the Cancelled, the Canceller & Bystanders!
Cancel Culture which also has been named “boycott culture” is a modern movement which involves “cancelling” or removing someone from...
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The Good, the Bad and Ugly of Cancel Culture
Whether you use social media for advocacy, dispelling myths, or even posting some great selfies, developing an online presence can open a...
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Addressing Mental Health in the midst of a Humanitarian Crisis
It has been estimated that 20% of the population affected by a humanitarian crisis need psychological care, but only 2% of them get...
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Cyber Scams go beyond monetary losses - They hurt Mental Health too!
While ushering in an era of working and studying from home, the Covid-19 pandemic has also heralded new channels for online criminals who...
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Not everyone wants to be rescued - It’s time to accept that
If the pandemic was anything, it was a time when people needed help. A sudden vulnerability and helplessness blanketed the world, laying...
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Self-Injury in Children
What is self-injury? Self-injury is where someone injures or hurts themselves on purpose whilst trying to deal with intense, distressing...
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