Mental Health Topics – Thriveworks

Most people don’t walk around openly saying “I hate myself,” but plenty of us have thought it. Maybe it crossed your mind after a pretty big mistake or during a rough mental health spiral. Or maybe it’s been part of your inner monologue for years—a harsh critic in the back...

Chris Owens says he knew what healthy eating looked like in theory, but it felt like food noise had “hijacked” his brain. “I wasn’t free to make those choices,” he explains. “I don’t know that the food noise was ever quiet enough to where I could actually experience real physical...

Raise your hand if you have a complicated relationship with your mother. So…almost all of us? Whether your mother was absent, abusive, emotionally distant, or passed along some other specific type of baggage, it’s very possible that your relationship with your mom is impacting the way you show up as...

“Emotionally unavailable” has become one of those phrases that gets thrown around so often it’s started to lose its meaning. It’s used to describe everything from a partner who won’t open up about their feelings to someone who simply stopped texting back. But the more loosely we use the term,...

We tend to associate whimsy, silliness, and play with childhood. Rolling down grassy hills. Hunting for four-leaf clovers. Making a blanket fort whenever the occasion called for one. But more and more, people on social media are calling on adults to partake in random acts of whimsy for their own...