Three years ago, I was averaging five hours of broken sleep a night and wondering why my anxiety felt completely unmanageable. My therapist kept circling back to the same topic: sleep hygiene mental health improvement. She said it like it…
Last winter I hit a wall. I was waking up at 3 a.m. four nights a week, staring at the ceiling with a mind that refused to quiet down. I tried cutting caffeine, dimming screens, journaling — all the standard…
Two weeks into a work trip across three time zones, something shifted in me that I could not immediately name. I was eating fine, exercising when I could, staying connected with people I love. But a flat, gray feeling had…
The first time I had a panic attack in public, I was standing in the cereal aisle at a grocery store. My heart slammed against my ribs, my vision narrowed to a tunnel, and I genuinely believed I was dying….