I grew up in a part of Fresno where people did not need clinical language to understand trauma. We called it the hood, the barrio, the trap, or the block. In places... Read more »
This Mental Health Awareness Month, new national data points to an encouraging reality: colleges across the United States are expanding mental health services at a record pace. According to recent findings, hundreds... Read more »
“Ultra-processed foods are industrial creations made with little—if any—whole foods that often contain large amounts of added sugar and salt” (Berg, 2024). They are typically “infused with artificial colors and additives, and... Read more »
Co-authored by Robert Mueller, Ph.D., and Divya Bhupal. “There is a unique kind of pain in losing your mind, not just once, but over and over. Losing your perception of reality, of... Read more »
Morgan Housel is one of the most widely read voices in recent personal finance. He argues that the ultimate goal of building wealth is not money itself—it is freedom.1 The freedom to... Read more »
Human-caused climate change is now affecting everyone around the world. Its health impacts are being tracked, focusing on physical health. Tracking climate change’s mental health impacts is far trickier. No long-term, global... Read more »
The last few years have seen an increasing number of war-related incidents reported in the media. There has been plenty of coverage of the Ukraine war, the conflict between Israel and Palestine,... Read more »
Loneliness is increasingly described as an epidemic. In 2023, the surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, warned that widespread loneliness and lack of social connection had become a national public health crisis. A key... Read more »
In my last AI for Interactive Journaling workshop, I ran a completely unscientific poll that really surprised me. Of the 55 people who reported therapy experience, 49% are turning to AI for... Read more »
Imagine being one of our Paleolithic ancestors and having to navigate the relative safety of the cave and all the presumably more dangerous places around it for food, forest bathing, and whatever... Read more »