mental health

Covid-19 “eroding students’ wellbeing”

Covid-19 “eroding students’ wellbeing”

Many UK university students are reportedly struggling with “loneliness and declining mental health”, according to new research by IT and consulting services company Accenture. In collaboration with Cibyl, Accenture’s report found that a staggering 80% of students said Covid contributed to their poor mental health. “There’s a significant disconnect between the experiences of different students” […]

How to Take a Guilt-Free Mental Health Day & Make the Most of It

How to Take a Guilt-Free Mental Health Day & Make the Most of It

It seems that we all can agree that if you’re not feeling well, you should stay home from work. If your nose is running, you have a fever or severe cough, calling in sick for work is a no-brainer. But why do we only allow ourselves time off for those types of “sick” and not […]

How You Can Use Mindfulness to Guide Neuroplasticity to Improve Brain and Mental Health

How You Can Use Mindfulness to Guide Neuroplasticity to Improve Brain and Mental Health

Your brain is literally changing its physical form and function every day in response to your experiences, behaviors, and even your thoughts through neuroplasticity. You can learn to guide this process to help you. An easily accessible way to do that is by practicing mindfulness. What Exactly Is Neuroplasticity? Neuroplasticity is an umbrella term referring […]

4 Ways to Make Peace with Overwhelming Emotions

4 Ways to Make Peace with Overwhelming Emotions

Emotions are like waves. When you’re in the middle of an intense situation, emotions can be overpowering — like they’re going to sweep you away and drown you. When you feel like this, it’s hard to remember that emotions are transient and do not last forever. Later, when things have calmed down a bit or […]

Ed Sheeran Admits His ‘Addictive Personality’ Led Him To Binge Eat & Drink Until He Was ‘Sick’

Ed Sheeran Admits His ‘Addictive Personality’ Led Him To Binge Eat & Drink Until He Was ‘Sick’

Ed Sheeran is peeling back the curtain on some of the darkest moments in his life. The notoriously private British crooner sat down for an interview as part of the Hay House Chasing the Present Summit and got refreshingly candid about struggling with his past vices, as well as how he’s been able to transition to a […]

How to Nourish Your Brain to Improve and Protect It

How to Nourish Your Brain to Improve and Protect It

Memory is an active and ongoing process in your brain. It involves chemical and structural changes in brain cells and their connections at the moment you want to store something in your brain and when you want to recall it. Making new memories requires focus at the moment as well as a healthy brain to […]

How Someone Else Drinking Alcohol Can Damage Your Brain

How Someone Else Drinking Alcohol Can Damage Your Brain

I bet you knew that alcohol use, including routine binge drinking, heavy social drinking, alcohol abuse, and alcoholism, leads to serious brain changes. These brain alterations can negatively impact a person’s cognitive thinking skills, visuospatial perception, motor skills, short and long-term memory, and decision-making abilities. Brain changes can exist in the alcoholic who quits drinking […]