Mental Health Awareness

Climate concerns: Personal advice on how to navigate eco-anxiety

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Climate concerns: Personal advice on how to navigate eco-anxiety

We’ve all seen the headlines in the news focusing on wildfires, floods, droughts, and hurricanes. For those of us who care deeply about the health of our planet, it’s hard not to be concerned about the consequences of climate change. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), “eco-anxiety” refers to “anxiety or worry about climate change and its effects.” May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and in honor of that, I decided it was timely to…

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Don’t shy away from talking about mental health

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Don’t shy away from talking about mental health

I think about mental health a lot. It’s funny – you don’t think about it at all until it starts failing you. Then, it’s pretty much all you can think about. I consider myself lucky, though, because I don’t have to pretend that I’m feeling fabulous when I’m not, and I can speak openly about some struggles that I face. I’m grateful that mental health is a conversation the world is having; it’s comforting to…

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