What All That Noise Is Doing to Your Health
Our mental and physical well-being suffer from the sonic overload of modern life.
Mental health
I Stopped Playing the 鈥淪trong Black Woman鈥�
We are paying for this myth we鈥檝e bought into with our lives.
The Surprising Links Between Your Mental Health and Everyone Else鈥檚
Why are anxiety and depression on the rise? Our environments have changed. Our food. Our stress. Our relationships鈥攐ur 鈥渓ost connections.鈥�
How Native American Children Benefit From Trauma-Informed Schools
Students in these communities are disproportionately affected by trauma. When they act out, adults with training ask, 鈥淚s there anything I can do to help you?鈥� rather than 鈥淲hy are you acting this way?鈥�
The Best Medicine for My Climate Grief
A climate scientist talks to a psychologist about coping with the crushing stress related to climate change. Here鈥檚 what he learned.
What Wildfires Do to Our Minds
A Northern California community offers mental health first aid to survivors of devastating fires.
Research Shows Entire Black Communities Suffer Trauma After Police Shootings
Police killings of unarmed African Americans have created a mental health crisis of enormous proportions.
鈥淚 Have No Need of an Enemy鈥�
A prisoner鈥檚 story of finding a third way鈥攐f finding meaning, truth, hope, and wholeness.
How Colleges Can Support Students Recovering from Substance Abuse
The key to sobriety is giving students experiences that go beyond pub-crawling or tailgating.
Student Debt Anxiety Is Hard on My Mental Health
In the last 10 years alone, the number of people like me who owe at least $100,000 in student loans has quadrupled. But here鈥檚 how we can cope.
The College Mental Health Crisis in 10 Sketches
As schools respond to the 30 percent increase in demand for counseling, artist Ella Baron gives a glimpse inside some students鈥� experiences.
Standing Rock Medic Bus Is Now a Traveling Decolonized Pharmacy
These Native herbalists are doing more than just healing sore muscles.
Compassionate Mental Health Reform Began With Taking Off the Handcuffs
Rural Virginia in particular has implemented policies that try to treat people with more dignity.
How to Help Inmates Heal After the Trauma of Prison
New York鈥檚 Thrive provides a model to the rest of the U.S. for supporting incarcerated men and helping them find stable housing, education, and employment after they鈥檙e released.
If Meditation Is Not Your Thing, Try a Walk in the Woods
Hiking is a near-perfect combination of elements known to relax us, raise our alertness, elevate our self-esteem, and physically prepare us for true rest afterward.
The Woman Who Pioneered 鈥淗ousing First鈥�
Three decades ago, one nurse came up with a radical idea: Give homeless folks suffering from addiction and mental illness a safe place to be themselves.
Three Questions to Lead Us Away From Self-Extinction
Transformation begins with clarity on the nature of the choice that confronts our species.
New York鈥檚 Suicide Prevention Program Is the First of Its Kind in the U.S.
Suicide rates have been rising overall, but the results from this Swiss study were promising: Suicidal behavior dropped by 80 percent.
The People Behind Your Tech Addiction Are Now Trying to Curb It
A group of former tech insiders wants to make our relationship with digital media healthier, and maybe even harness our devices for good.
Depression and the Healing Desert
Nature offers solace for a man living with depression鈥攁nd a lesson in acceptance for his anxious partner.
Why Black Stories Matter: They Build Empathy and Heal Trauma
In New York state, a writing and performance program helps people of color share their stories as a pathway to empathy and healing.
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Lonely People
Those trying to cure a loneliness epidemic by bringing people physically closer to their neighbors are oversimplifying its modern meaning.
After Erica Garner鈥檚 Death, I Can鈥檛 Breathe Through the Tears
Perhaps our grief can spark people to join the movement to end the oppression.
Pocahontas Is Not a Name That Should Offend You
She is a reminder of the indigenous women who are missing and murdered every year.
Decolonize Your Diet
Love your Mexican food? Traditional indigenous food from Mexico is misunderstood in the U.S.鈥攁nd is actually among the world鈥檚 healthiest.
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