Posts tagged mental health
Focus on 24 Strengths: How can you become more resilient this year?

Our collective resilience is currently being tested on a global scale.

Finding strategies to help you weather the storm within yourself is important.

Resilience is often pictured as someone who is “strong”, “tough” or generally impervious to insults and obstacles. But does being resilient really mean you remain completely unaffected in difficult or traumatic situations? Or does it mean you’re affected by them, but have the resources to keep going?

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How can you support your mental health in the new age of self-isolation?

How can you responsibly self-isolate or physically distance yourself from others without socially distancing yourself? And how can you take care of your physical and mental health while still doing your best to support the greater good? After all, some of the routines that previously kept you happy and healthy have probably been disrupted by stay at home orders.

Here are 11 strategies my patients and I are using:

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How do you nourish a brain? What you need to know before you start making resolutions

Ah, the infamous New Year’s resolutions. The time of year when information on diet and weight loss overwhelm every form of media. Yes nutrition is incredibly important, but let’s bring a new perspective to your goals for the year ahead.

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Lonely? 6 ways to spend more time with other people when you work from home

To you on your computer screen from me on mine: these are 6 solutions that have helped people feel less alone and more connected as remote workers.

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Why is your workplace so important to your mental health, and what can you do about it?

The workplace is uniquely positioned to reduce risks and contributors to mental illness, educate on and reduce stigma of mental illness, improve access to mental health care, target people who are at-risk before they develop a more severe mental illness and promote mental health.

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Gutted: How does your gastrointestinal system influence depressive symptoms?

Did you know that some of the first antidepressants were actually antibiotics?

Or that some of our current antidepressants actually have strong effects on your gut microbiota?

The link between your gut and your mind is not a new one, but new research is helping us to understand this link better every year.

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Fish oil for health and happiness?

I can’t argue that you are made up of fish the same way I could argue that you are made up of bacteria. But fish does contain special fatty acids that your brain needs to function at its best and it contains them in a form that you can’t get from just any fish oil supplement. It’s time to get snobby about what you feed your brain…and this article will tell you why!

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