Talking to Someone You’re Worried About You’ve noticed something’s shifted. Maybe your friend hasn’t answered texts in days. Maybe your partner seems to be going through the motions but isn’t really there. Maybe a family member’s dark jokes have started to sound different – less like humor, more like something else underneath. And now you’re
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The Weight of New Beginnings: What Transitions Ask of Us The alarm goes off earlier than it has all summer. A young adult stands in their childhood bedroom one last time before moving into a dorm, noticing the tightness in their chest. A parent watches their kindergartener disappear into a classroom and realizes the house
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Permission to Rest: Why Summer Doesn’t Always Feel Like a Break Summer is supposed to feel easy. The season itself promises it: longer days, warm air, the cultural narrative of leisure and freedom. There’s an underlying assumption that you should be happier in summer, more relaxed, more fun. That you’ll finally have time to rest.
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Your Body Isn’t Broken! It’s Talking You’ve been to three doctors. Maybe five. They run tests, they find nothing “wrong,” and they look at you like you’re fine. But you don’t feel fine. Your shoulders live near your ears. Your stomach is constantly in knots. You’re exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t fix. And
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The Things We’ve Learned Not to Notice Sara Mathew, MSC Intern In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this is a gentle trigger warning to let you know we are discussing a difficult and important topic. Please protect your mental health and skip this read if needed. Maybe she was walking to her car
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For the Women Who Came Before Us Sara Mathew, MSC Intern Some of the most important women in history will never make it into the books. They won’t have monuments or months dedicated to them. But they built things anyway — families, homes, communities, and people. They showed up when showing up was hard.
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Mental Health Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum: How Black History Shapes All of Us Sara Mathew, MSC Intern One of the things we know about mental health is that the story matters. Not just the story you tell yourself about who you are, but the larger story you were told about where you come
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Self-Love Is Kindness You Don’t Have to Earn Sara Mathew, MSC Intern In Part 1, we explored how self-love begins with safety and regulation, how we learn it through relationships, and how it’s built through self-respect in addition to self-esteem. But understanding these foundations is only part of the story. The question many
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Self-Love as A Practice, Not a Feeling Sara Mathew, MSC Intern How We Learn Self-Love For many people, February is synonymous with flowers, chocolate, and romance. We’re surrounded by messages about loving others, but much less about loving ourselves. And for many, self-love is actually harder to attain. Self-love is often described
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New Year, New Me, Reimagined Sara Mathew, MSC Intern As the holidays end and a new year begins, a familiar message gets louder for many of us: “reset, get back on track, do better this year.” We’re surrounded by reminders to change our bodies, our habits, our routines, often all at once. “New
