There are many effective ways to cope with being sensitive and soft-hearted in a harsh world, but radical acceptance is the place to start — Highly sensitive beings suffer more but they also love harder, dream wider, and experience deeper horizons and bliss. When you’re sensitive, you’re alive in every sense of this word in this wildly beautiful world. Sensitivity is your strength. Keep soaking in the light and spreading it to others. …

My first clinical placement in a mental health-focused community pharmacy and why it had such an impact on me — My Personal Mental Health Journey When my mental health issues first started to manifest at the age of 15, I had no clue how radically my life would change in the coming years. I had no idea my life would fall apart time and time again and that I would have to build it back…

Dealing with crossroads in life — Reaching the point when you need to make a choice to take a chance to change your life for the better, don’t hesitate to forge your own new path if one isn’t already there. Dealing With Crossroads in Life A poem As I flew toward that vital fork in my road I feared I was about to see…

How we talk to ourselves, when combined with our actions, determines how our neurons talk to each other and the form of footprint they will leave in our brain tissue! — I am a character in the narrative of my life. I am going somewhere. I make sense, despite the unusual firing of my neural hardware. On days when I wake up and my self-efficacy (i.e., my confidence in my ability to accomplish my goals and succeed in life) is at…

Living with ADHD is all about filtering out the “noise” in the environment while focusing on the structure and routines of day-to-day life — Ask any person with ADHD — or any other mental health condition — and they’ll tell you about a time they received or overheard a negative, judgemental comment about their abilities that they couldn’t shake off. When I hear comments from people brushing off my ADHD, I feel very hurt…

Despite most of us experiencing a high quantity of social interactions, they are lacking in value. — Through the technologies of the century, the number and variety of relationships in which we are engaged, the frequencies of contact, the expressed intensity of our relationships, and their endurance through time all are steadily increasing. As this increase becomes extreme, we reach a state of social saturation. …

How getting back up on a horse helped me to see over the emotional roadblocks my mind had set up for me — The winter of 2022 was a tough one for me — juggling long hours of studying with a smorgasbord of other stressors really put my mental health to the test. Most days my brain felt so overloaded with information that I couldn’t even get out a coherent sentence to my…

The day he took me to the largest mall in North America he popped the question that changed my entire world — I woke up tired, sniffly, and spacey on the morning of December 28th. But I was very excited to visit the West Edmonton Mall for the first time with my boyfriend, Greg. The temperatures had been below -30 degrees since we’d arrived in Edmonton on Christmas Eve, so I was…

Productivity anxiety can give us mental discomfort — an icky feeling that seems impossible to shake — but there is hope for getting through it! — Productivity anxiety is an increasingly prevalent form of anxiety in which one feels physically and/or psychologically stressed when they do not live up to the self-imposed threshold of productivity they have for themselves. In an increasingly competitive, fast-paced world, it is becoming easier to fall into the trap that we…