Pet Therapy: How animals heal us
Animal-assisted therapy or Pet therapy is shown to have healing properties. While traditionally dogs and horses were used, other animal species including birds and fish are now being used.
Combat Worry with these Strategies
Worry has been linked with a detrimental impact on our physical and mental health (Newman et al., 2019). Learn tips to end worry.
Why invest in career counseling?
Surveys have shown that up to 85 percent of students feel unequipped to make informed career decisions (Wheebox, 2018). Moreover, approximately 50 percent of the workforce are unhappy or feel disengaged in their current jobs (Gallup, 2022).
How to take a shower when you don’t feel like?
Functional impairments have been often observed in people with depression. While studies have mainly focused on reduction of symptomatic criteria such as low mood, self-esteem etc.
Managing the Emotional Aspects of a Chronic Illnesses
Chronic illnesses are thought of as conditions lasting over a year requiring constant treatment or monitoring and causing functional disruptions.
Empathy – Standing In Someone Else’s Shoe
The word empathy traces its roots back in early history and is derived from the Greek term empatheia, which means affection.
Stress Is Affecting Your Kidneys
It is estimated that around 15% and around 17% of the Indian population of the adult US population suffer from chronic kidney disease with it being more common among women and elderly people.
Hope – The Light at the End
While the hope construct has been defined in various ways, broadly 3 types of hope can be identified in the literature.
Enmeshed Family Dynamics : When you’re too tight-knit
Have you heard of ‘mama’s boy’ syndrome? Although this is not a formal diagnosis, it has commonly been used to describe a relationship where the child is infantilized by the parent and they are codependent on each other.