Mental Health Content: Helpful or Hurtful?
I’ve benefitted a lot from self-help and therapy books, articles, tiktoks, and podcasts, and I’ve also been deeply confused and misguided by these same resources. There have always been a plethora of books available on the topic of therapy and personal-growth, and since the rise of social media and the boom of interest in mental health content following the COVID pandemic there is a staggering amount of content available to us. This situation leaves us with the obvious question of how do we determine what resources to trust and which ones to ignore, but it also begs a more subtle question as well: what will be most helpful for us to hear right now?
Questions about Self-Care
Something that I’ve come across again and again in my personal life and clinical practice is people (myself included) bumping up against the fact that we have a harder time offering ourselves support when we’re struggling than we do offering it to others. In fact, this comes up so commonly that it’s led me to be suspicious about the whole thing. Is there something not quite right about our expectations for self-care?
Self Care is a Revolutionary Act for Child Trauma Survivors
For adult survivors of neglectful, abusive or otherwise harmful parenting, one of the messages we likely received in our childhood experience is that our feelings and needs do not matter.