mental health challenges

It was only six weeks from the time the first strange patch appeared on Melissa Holt’s scalp til she was…

Depression and anxiety are frequent visitors for me. The trick is to wait them out, not battle them directly. Instead…

By Tannis Price, therapist-in-training Have you ever found yourself feeling numb to other people’s problems, or to sad stories on…

“Isolation makes any problem bigger,” says Leslie Wilkin, a clinical social worker. Normally, Leslie Wilkin sees her clients at Island…

Last week I attended our workshop with Alica Forneret on grief. I was really looking forward to digging in and…

“A yoga studio can be this weird place where you do something together but remain alone, boundaried by a strip…

Q and A with Julie Peters In preparation for Yoga Outreach’s first conference (May 25), we asked the scheduled panelists…

If Blue Monday is a duvet day, Depression is a bare mattress, a pile of stinking sheets and a coin…

This year I was a hero for someone. I feel okay about saying that, because more than a decade ago,…

Girls’ brains react differently than boys’  Girls process trauma differently than boys. Apparently, estrogen prompts a larger area of neurons…