Health & Wellness

Even if you don’t have a student at home, here are some ways you can benefit from implementing back-to-school basics in your own life, so you can ace the rest of 2021.

Relationships produce both pain and frustration and joy and excitement, and to have healthy ones, we need to be able to acknowledge both. If we don’t acknowledge the awful, then we can’t ask our relationships to improve. And if we don’t acknowledge the awesome, we will miss out on some of the best experiences in life.

This year students are returning to school amid a pandemic. This period of adjustment can lead to or exacerbate mental health issues, particularly for individuals already experiencing things like anxiety or depression.

Collective grief happens when a community, society, village, or nation experiences extreme change or loss; like natural disasters, war, mass casualties, pandemics or any other widespread devastation.

If you’ve approached your vaccine-hesitant loved ones with the data and they haven’t changed their minds, you need to realize that you are bringing logic to an emotional conversation.

The pandemic has drastically changed the need for service dogs at facilities and for those with PTSD, prompting Deafinitely Dogs to shift its focus.

When someone you care about is facing a crisis, you want to do whatever it takes to help. But we don’t always know the right thing to do or say. And sometimes we let our fear of making the wrong choice keep us from reaching out.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, a movement is happening that carries with it potentially far reaching and lasting impacts as it pertains to how we as a society perceive mental health and well-being. When Simone Biles withdrew from gymnastics competition and Naomi Osaka took to the tennis court on the heels of withdrawing from the French Open, both athletes noted their mental health struggles.