Sarah Mitchell · February 19, 2026
When you are depressed, standard self care for depression advice can feel cruelly out of reach. I have tried the bubble baths and the journaling and the gratitude lists. Some of it helped. Some of it made me feel worse…
Sarah Mitchell · February 16, 2026
When most people picture depression, they picture someone who can’t get out of bed, who cries a lot, who looks visibly sad. And sometimes, that is exactly what it looks like. But depression in men signs often look nothing like…
Sarah Mitchell · February 14, 2026
For a long time, I thought I knew what depression looked like. I pictured someone unable to get out of bed, crying every day, visibly struggling. So when I went through periods of feeling hollow, irritable, and completely unlike myself,…
Sarah Mitchell · February 12, 2026
If you’ve ever Googled “should I see a therapist or a life coach,” you’re not alone — and you’re asking exactly the right question. The therapy vs life coaching difference is something a lot of people genuinely don’t understand, and…
Sarah Mitchell · February 10, 2026
For most of my early experiences with therapy and self-help, the starting point was always my thoughts. Challenge the thought. Reframe the belief. Ask yourself if the evidence really supports what you’re telling yourself. And look — that approach has…
Sarah Mitchell · February 8, 2026
If you have ever found yourself wondering what is EMDR therapy and why people talk about it in almost hushed, reverent tones — you are not alone. The first time someone described it to me, I remember thinking it sounded…
Sarah Mitchell · February 5, 2026
Moving past codependency is genuinely one of the harder things I’ve seen people try to do — and a big reason for that is that codependency rarely feels like a problem when you’re in it. It feels like love. It…
Sarah Mitchell · February 3, 2026
Nobody hands you a map of how your earliest relationships will follow you into adulthood. For years, I had no language for the patterns I kept repeating — the way I would pull back just when something felt too close,…
Sarah Mitchell · February 1, 2026
Love addiction sounds almost charming until you are living it — the obsessive checking, the emotional crashes, the cycle of highs and withdrawal that looks and feels almost identical to substance dependency. If you have ever Googled “love addiction signs”…
Sarah Mitchell · January 30, 2026
If you’ve spent any time reading about relationships or mental health, you’ve almost certainly come across the concept of attachment styles. And somewhere in all of that, you’ll have read about secure attachment adults relationships as the gold standard —…