Morning Routine for Mental Health: An Evidence-Informed Start to Your Day
Morning routine for mental health: evidence-informed habits with light, movement, brief journaling, and breakfast that support mood without becoming a chore.
Long-Term Wellness
Recovery, resilience, and life after treatment — staying well over time, navigating workplace mental health, and care for specific populations including seniors and post-treatment readers.
Therapy After Therapy: Maintenance Sessions, Booster Therapy, and How Often You Should Check In
When Priya finished her twenty-week course of CBT for panic disorder, her therapist did something Priya later realized was rare: she scheduled a follow-up for six weeks out, then another for three months after that, then one for the six-month mark. By the time the year was over, Priya had used four “tune-up” sessions and … Read more
Peer Support Specialists: How Certified Peers Help With Recovery, Crisis, and Long-Term Wellness
What peer support specialists do, how they differ from sponsors and therapists, certification, insurance coverage, and how to find a certified peer in your area.
Thriving, Not Just Surviving: The Science of Resilience, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Building a Mentally Healthy Life After Treatment
The Question No One Asks You have done the work. Weekly therapy sessions. maybe medication. Perhaps an intensive outpatient program or a partial hospitalization stay when things got really bad. You have learned coping skills you never knew existed. You have confronted painful truths. You have spent time and money and emotional energy on your mental … Read more
Mental Health and Chronic Illness: Integrated Care for Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease, and Pain
Why mental health and chronic illness need integrated care – collaborative care models, behavioral health for cancer, diabetes, cardiac, and chronic pain, and how to find a clinician.
Workplace Mental Health Programs Worth Using: EAPs, Insurance Add-Ons, and What Your HR Won’t Tell You
Diane had been a senior project manager at a Fortune 200 logistics company for nine years before her panic disorder caught up with her. The HR welcome packet she had filed away on her first day mentioned an Employee Assistance Program, a “wellness portal,” and something called “Spring Health” she had never opened. After her … Read more
Long COVID Brain Fog and Depression: Treatment Plans, Cognitive Rehab, and Specialist Clinics
Elena got COVID for the third time in February 2023. The acute illness was mild — a sore throat, three days on the couch, back to work the following week. By April she could not finish a sentence without losing the thread. By June she was crying every morning, sleeping eleven hours and waking exhausted, … Read more
Friendship and Community as Mental Health Infrastructure: Building Connection That Outlasts Therapy
The Mental Health Infrastructure That Costs Nothing and Predicts the Most The longest-running study of human flourishing in history, the Harvard Study of Adult Development, has tracked hundreds of men over more than eight decades. The single most consistent finding from the study is that the quality of close relationships, more than wealth, fame, intelligence, … Read more
Wearables for Mental Health: How Apple Watch, Oura, and WHOOP Track Stress, Sleep, and Mood
Sam bought an Oura ring three months into his anxiety treatment because his therapist had asked him to track sleep. By week two he was checking his readiness score before deciding whether he could handle a difficult work meeting. By week six he was canceling plans on days the ring told him his HRV was … Read more
Maintenance Antidepressants: How Long Patients Stay on SSRIs and the Tapering Mistakes That Cause Relapse
The first time Marcus tried to stop sertraline, he did what his prescriber suggested: cut the 100 mg dose in half for two weeks, then stop. By day six of the lower dose he was dizzy whenever he turned his head. By day three of zero he was crying in his car at lunch, sleeping … Read more