Can Cooking Help Your Mental Health? 9 Reasons to Try it Out

“Cooking can help your mental health?” you wonder. Can you really manage your anxiety and/or depression by simply preparing your own meals? After a long day, maybe the last thing you feel like doing is putting together a meal, then having to clean up. But let’s take a closer look at cooking and how it…

The Science Behind Positive Psychology and Well-Being

in Mental Health, Therapy

We study psychology to better understand the human mind and use our findings to improve the human condition. The PERMA Model of Well-Being After working through initial theories, Seligman developed an acronym (PERMA) that represents his well-being theory: Positive Emotions — such as satisfaction, awe, excitement, pride, and others typically translate to positive outcomes in other aspects of life.

How to Curb a Busy Mind: The Ultimate Meditation Guide

in Anxiety, Mental Illness

It’s estimated that the average person has more than 6,000 thoughts every day. This being an average, it means that some of us will have fewer thoughts. Some of us will have many more. If you find that your mind is becoming overactive, it can cause a lot of stress. A busy mind can leave…