Mental Health
12 Best mental health apps to support your well-being
Talking to a mental health professional face-to-face is often the best step for immediate support. But if you’re feeling off or overwhelmed, the right app can help. We reviewed 12 trusted options to guide you toward clarity, calm, and care.
10 sneaky signs you have low self-esteem (and how to cure it)
Low self-esteem: what it is, how to spot it, and how to be more confident.
Letting go of perfectionism and the harm it inflicts
Perfectionism is often seen as an admirable trait, but for anyone who lives with it, you know it can be crippling, preventing you from enjoying what you do or pursuing what you want.
Conquer the thought, “I don’t know what to do with my life”
“I don’t know what to do with my life” is a thought I’ve had many times, usually at the cusp of some big transformation in my professional or personal life.
How to stop worrying: 9 tips to stop anxiety and stress
Most of us have worries or will experience anxious thoughts from time to time.
How to recover from burnout: 12 ways to beat chronic stress
Seventy-five percent of people have experienced job burnout, according to a 2020 FlexJobs survey. And that’s just scratching the surface because burnout can exist outside of the workplace, too.
Workplace bullying is on the rise. Learn how to stop it.
The issue of workplace bullying is on the rise. According to the latest data, 79.3 million US workers have been victims of workplace bullying[1]. Factors such as remote work and economic uncertainty have also been found to increase the prevalence of bullying.
How to Deal with Stress at Work: What’s Normal and What Isn’t
If you're wondering how to deal with stress at work, you're not alone. It’s no secret that our jobs are stressing us out.
How to deal with social anxiety: 8 coaches and therapists sound off
You want to meet new people, but you dread walking into a room full of strangers. You want to connect with your friends, but your hands get clammy when you think of picking up the phone to call them. You want people to get to know you, but your heart pounds as you think of all the ways they may be silently judging you.
How to deal with loneliness: 11 key coping strategies
When approaching how to deal with loneliness, we need to start with a definition of being lonely. While there’s no universally agreed definition, Wikipedia is a good start:
Entrepreneurs: how to reduce workplace stress and thrive
Working as your own boss, creating the perfect schedule, following a dream of your own; what could possibly go wrong?
How to calm anxiety (when you're freaking out)
Anxiety is a common struggle for many people. The good news is that mental health is finally becoming part of the broader well-being conversation among medical professionals and the public–which helps eliminate the stigma of mental health struggles and allows us to find ways to treat it and cope with it.
How to build self esteem: 8 tips to think more positively about yourself
Knowing how to build self esteem is the key to positive mental health and well-being.
Signs you have high functioning anxiety (and how to beat it)
Do you often find yourself going through paperwork at 6 pm, long after everyone’s left the office? Do you feel like everything you do needs to be perfect in every way possible? Is it all slowly draining up your energy, but you still feel like there’s no other way to get through life?
How to set healthy boundaries and have better relationships
Healthy boundaries protect your mental health, foster nurturing relationships, reduce stress and eliminate resentment.
How to develop grit (and the 1 critical ingredient that makes it work)
If you’ve dabbled in researching the word “grit” in the past decade or so, you’ve likely stumbled across Angela Duckworth’s book of the same name. Duckworth is the founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. She is also the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, and faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics. In short: she’s very accomplished, and knows a lot about grit.