What is self-love? While many can describe what self-love is, they don’t understand how to put self-love into practice. Self-love is not just about loving how you look in your favorite outfit, but how you feel and how you nourish your body, mind, and soul. Learning to love yourself is difficult challenge. We tend to …
Mental health
Any breakup is difficult. But divorce is something that rocks the very core of who you are! Divorce is something that’s not expected. You build a life with someone who you consider to be your “one and only.” Your “soulmate.” You never expect divorce when you marry and say “to death do us part.” But …
Living with dissociation is no way to live. This type of disorder leaves you feeling like your environment, people and even your own identity are not real. Instead of being present in the moment you’re in, your brain dissociates and provides a “safe haven” to protect you from stressful events, current and/or past trauma. …
Imagine one day of having a feeling that everything around you is not real. Your environment. Your family and friends. And even you own body doesn’t feel real. This sense of detachment from one’s body, thoughts, and surroundings is known as dissociation. Dissociation occurs for a variety of reasons and is often triggered by past …
Let’s discuss a lesser-known form of abuse… Financial abuse. Like emotional and verbal abuse, financial abuse goes unseen. Just because it goes unseen does not mean it causes any less devastation to the victim. Financial abuse is a control method that’s used to control another. This can leave someone feeling depressed, shameful, and hopeless about …