Many people think of burnout as simply being incredibly tired after a long week or month of work or school studies. The National Institutes of Health defines burnout as “a psychological syndrome emerging as a prolonged response to chronic interpersonal stressors on the job.”  Burnout…

Many people  deal with stress and anxiety on a daily basis. Whether it’s a result of an anxiety disorder, life stressors or post-traumatic stress, anxiety can take a toll on our physical and mental health. If you deal with anxiety, you most likely have looked…

College can be a fun and exciting time in many people’s lives. The newfound freedom, friendships and learning opportunities of the college years is incredibly special. But college isn’t all fun, of course. It can also be incredibly stressful, especially when it comes time to…

If you’re like most people, you deal with your own fair share of stress on a daily basis. In our busy, productivity-obsessed culture, being “stressed out” has become something we not only experience, but at times embrace and glorify. While some degree of stress is unavoidable…

fMany people are brought up to always be kind to others. But how many of us were taught to be kind to ourselves? Self-compassion, or self-love, can often seem like a foreign concept, particularly to those raised in an abusive or unloving home. Self- compassion…

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance: these are the very well-known five stages of grief, as postulated by Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book On Death and Dying. At the time of the book’s publication, very little instruction was given in medical school on the subject of death and…