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Sharing – Psychological Abuse Explained
ByMikeM May 29, 2025May 28, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

This logic that emotional and psychological abuse isn’t “as bad” gives short shrift to the people who’ve been psychologically abused. We also don’t recognize the emotional and psychological abuse that went on alongside the other forms of abuse in our situations. That can limit us when it comes to healing. We can’t heal what we don’t know. If we ignore the impacts of these other forms of abuse, we run the risk of dealing with the effects for the rest of our lives instead of taking them on in our healing work.

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Sharing – Tips on navigating online communities while supporting your mental health
ByMikeM May 9, 2025May 9, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Navigating the online world takes some skill, but getting it right can provide significant benefits to our sense of belonging, community, and act as a decent accessory to our offline relationships.

Just be careful not to get into communities that do the opposite, and leave them quickly when that becomes clear.

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Sharing – Stop Calling It A ‘Male Epidemic’ – Loneliness Is Everywhere
ByMikeM April 21, 2025April 21, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

We have created a culture that makes it challenging to form and sustain meaningful connections. It truly is a cultural problem. Whether it’s the lack of third places, our focus on work instead of community, or the fear of reaching out to others, we’re growing increasingly isolated.

That isolation might feel like independence, but it does real harm.

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Sharing – Why resilience won’t solve the mental health crisis among young people
ByMikeM January 11, 2025January 11, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep repeating it until everyone gets it. Exercise, meditation, resilience, and emotional intelligence are great things to do for our mental health. Still, they will never raise someone out of poverty, eliminate oppression, sexism, racism, etc., or clean up pollution and eliminate climate disasters. We cannot teach kids to be more resilient and do nothing to minimize the amount of trauma they are dealing with every day.

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Sharing – Friendship and mental health
ByMikeM August 24, 2024August 24, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute

What I appreciate most is that in putting this together, they recognize the importance of support and connection from the people in our lives every day instead of just telling people to go to therapy and not worry about the strength of their relationships. We’ve spent far too long avoiding talking directly about mental health because even saying you have a therapist is considered taboo.

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Sharing – Fans of fitness influencers exercise more – but they’re also more depressed
ByMikeM June 7, 2024June 7, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

For every headline or expert who touts the “cure” to depression, anxiety, or other issues, there are always a large number of individuals who weren’t helped by it. In this study, we also have to recognize that social media accounts focused on fitness might be making things worse for people, causing them to obsess over their appearance and creating unhealthy relationships with food.

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