Depending on who you ask: journaling has been a trend for centuries, and serves a multitude of benefits:In fifteenth-century Italy: diaries were used for accountingNearly 2,000 years ago, Ma Dubo…
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Resilience Building: One Song at a Time
We throw the term “resilience” around a lot these days. Whether that’s a symptom of the aftermath of the COVID pandemic and the subsequent challenges that have faced the entire…
Designing your Life: Each Chapter is a New Song to be Sung
Generally speaking, when it comes to the concept of “designing your life”, I think a lot of people tend to get overwhelmed with details. We have a tendency to look…
Mental Health and Burnout [continued]: Journaling and the Power of Cognitive Reframe
Last week, we dove into a slightly different topic when it comes to mental health: the topic of burnout, and its impacts on teenagers as well as on working adults…
Mental Health and Burnout: As You Think; So Shall You Be
According to the Mayo clinic, burnout is “a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity”. We’ve all seen…
Mental Health: Healing your Inner Child
I learned something recently that kind of blew my mind. There is an argument [backed up with some pretty solid research] that suggests that the trauma we experience in our…
Help My Teenager : Being Alone
The good news is that – according to Reuters, CNN and NBC: the World Health Organization has claimed that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is [finally] in sight. Now,…
Culture, Creativity, and Mental Health
It’s really easy to throw around flippant statements that reference “society today”, or “the education system today”, or “the system [in general] today”, but I don’t think we necessarily take…
Help my Teenager: JEDI Mental Health
I’m not gonna lie: I’m a pretty new member to Star Wars fandom. To start: I wasn’t particularly raised around sci-fi. In fact, due to my neurological condition hydrocephalus, and…
Empowerment through Songwriting : Ambition Burnout in 2022
This past week, I came across an article online that discusses how working in the year 2022 seems to be synonymous with mental health -, ambition -, and general life…