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The Best Career Advice I Ever Got
Four years ago, I was moving from startup to startup, confused about my future but leaning into the roles I thought others valued. In the middle of the confusion, I had lunch with a wise friend.
Video Interview with Little Panic Author Amanda Stern
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to Amanda Stern, author of Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life on in a Beautiful Voyager Facebook live chat. It was such a joy to get to find out from Amanda herself, whose book I loved, about how the book came to be, and what it feels like to talk about her panic disorder publically.
A Beginner's Guide to Generalized Anxiety Disorder
This short guide is meant to help people who, like me at the time, are just beginning their journey with GAD. If you find yourself googling like crazy and not being able to find answers to your questions: Welcome, kindred soul.
New Mental Health Apps Reviewed: Wysa, Woebot, Joyable, and Talkspace
A few months ago, I was asked by Healthline to review a handful of mental health apps for a story the team was working on.See what I learned about mental health on the go, and see if this type of exploration might be right for you.
How to Avoid SAT Test Anxiety
According to these government statistics , 30 percent of Americans and 12 percent of Canadians and are affected by test anxiety, and research suggests that if left uncontrolled, it can decrease student performance by at least 10 percent. Here’s a helpful guide to working through test anxiety.
Handpicked Memes For You, Fellow Overthinker
For many people, memes capture the feelings and frustrations we feel inside that we just can’t quite express in words. The following memes have been created by or for all the overthinkers among us to capture all our many, many thoughts in .gif form.
My Metaphor for Overthinking
For the first 39 years of my life, I was terrible to my brain. I would engage in deep, intrusive pondering, telling myself that I was working hard to "figure things out." I never realized that the overthinking I was engaging in was terrible for my brain's environment. And this is my metaphor for overthinking: my brain has an environment, and I am responsible for taking care of it.
Try Yin Yoga If You're Stiff
Yoga had historically never been a great fit for me, as I don’t have the upper body strength to do a vinyasa properly and I’m not coordinated enough to keep up with a fast moving class. I knew I desperately needed a new stretching routine so I started researching other types of yoga, including Yin Yoga.