What Holistic Care for Refugees Looks Like
Attachment theory can be helpful in holistically supporting refugee children by using its evidence to improve refugee relief and resettlement.
Mental health
Healing Generational Trauma
For Black and Indigenous communities, it takes more than therapy and medicine to tackle mental illness. We need a holistic approach.
Taking Back Our Focus
In "Stolen Focus," Johann Hari unplugs from digital media and regains his concentration.
How to Transform the Way You Experience Winter
鈥淩ather than letting our relationship with nature extinguish itself during the cold, wet, dark days, we need to take special care to keep it kindled.鈥�
Barriers to Mental Health Care for Asian Americans鈥攁nd Solutions
Understanding why many Asian Americans don鈥檛 seek mental health care鈥攍ike stigma and lack of culturally appropriate resources鈥攊s essential to providing effective support.
How to Regulate Pandemic Anxiety? Trust Your Body
From breath work to joyful movement, 9 suggestions on how to compassionately soothe the body amidst pandemic anxiety.
Smoked Salmon for Amelia: A Native Perspective on Homelessness
鈥淭he ultimate cause of homelessness is our spiritual break with the land.鈥�
Waiting at the Border, Migrants Lean on Tradition
Stitching mantas鈥攖ortilla covers鈥攊s a traditional craft among Latin American women. As migrants wait out the U.S. immigration bureaucracy in a Mexican border city, mantas are increasingly a lifeline.
The Case for Slow Work
鈥淪low work is an exercise in doing less, and more aspirationally, doing nothing.鈥�
How (and Why) a Horror Show Soothed My Pregnancy Loss
For years, horror鈥攁 sort of safe danger I knew had an end鈥攇ot me through some seriously traumatic situations.
Why Public Art Is Good for Cities
Studies show that investments in public art can improve street safety, provide tourism and new jobs, and combat social isolation and anxiety.
How Gen Z Is Fighting Back Against Big Tech
Many in this generation are aware of what they have lost by having grown up on social media, so they鈥檙e logging off and working to create a safer, healthier future.
By Tracing Addiction to Childhood Trauma, Can We Find Compassion?
鈥淥ur job, as human beings, is to learn from our suffering.鈥�
The Pursuit of Rest Under Capitalism
鈥淐ould it be that the fragmentation of our relations has been a fundamental cause of our exhaustion?鈥�
How to Address Mental Health Needs of Children With Chronic Illnesses
Children with chronic medical conditions often suffer multiple blows to their mental well-being. A state program in California aims to provide appropriate treatment for these children and their families.
Is It Time to Abandon the Term 鈥淐limate Anxiety鈥�?
People are calling for a more nuanced discussion of climate change and mental health鈥攐ne that centers the experiences of marginalized communities.
For Black Women, Self-Care Is a Political Act
鈥淭o thrive, we must embrace both our strengths and our vulnerabilities, and give ourselves permission to be human.鈥�
Don鈥檛 Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect
There is no point at which we can no longer strive to make the future better than it otherwise would be.
Veterans Find Peace on America鈥檚 Trails
The remote woods and mountains鈥攁ccessed on long, challenging thru-hikes鈥攁re places of healing for former soldiers who suffer from the trauma of war.
Why Are We Expected to Love Our Jobs?
For decades, Americans have been told they should love their jobs. But is this a healthy relationship?
The Refugee-Led Coalition Creating Collective Care
Already facing health and education gaps, refugees in San Diego banded together during the pandemic to define their own challenges and create their own solutions.
What Purpose Does a Border Serve?
Border walls aren鈥檛 necessary, and neither are the borders themselves in a world built on justice and equality, says author Todd Miller.
A Denver Neighborhood Creates Green Space to Improve Community Health
Once a dumping ground for trash and industrial pollution, Platte Farm Open Space now has gardens, trails, and play areas enjoyed by the whole community.
What Would a White Woman Do?
Whenever I am faced with emotional ambivalence, or a sense of duty to others is in competition with my own emotional needs, I ask, 鈥淲hat would a white woman do?鈥�
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