Mindfulness has become a trend in the self-care industry. This is probably because it’s such a simple, easy way to improve your day-to-day life. I was first introduced to this practice when I started counseling sessions during my freshman year of college. My counselor, Angela Weixel, is a mindfulness expert and explained that this method… Read More My Journey to Mindfulness
At the risk of stating the obvious, the world is a very diverse place. There are different landscapes, different climates, different cultures, different societies, and different people with different lifestyles within those societies. It stands to reason, then, that the health problems these people experience are also quite diverse. Around the world, women face different… Read More Women’s Health Around the World
As a person who could spend hours looking at healthy recipes, or going to restaurants with the healthy options (fancy turkey burgers and the like), I love indulging. Yes, winter is the time to be healthy, but what’s winter without hot chocolate and comfort foods?! Moderation is key to staying healthy and happy during this… Read More Cold Weather Recipes
You’re watching a TV show. On screen, a woman goes pale, clutches her left arm, and collapses to the ground, unconscious. She’ll be taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a heart attack, and she’ll probably survive. We’ve likely all seen it at one point or another, whether depicted on screen or described in text,… Read More What Makes Women’s Health Different?
You know those days where nothing goes your way? When your stress is at an all time high and it just continues to build? This can lead to times where focusing on a midterm, a job interview, or even feedback from a school, seems impossible. Students in high school and college experience what seems like… Read More Ways to De-Stress Without Feeling Unproductive
Health is not a switch. To most people, especially in America, health is some binary, finite thing. You’re either healthy, or you’re not. You have health, or you don’t. It exists in your life, or it doesn’t. On, off. Present, absent. Static. Many people think of health simply as the absence of physical sickness, which… Read More The Nature of Health
I broke my foot this fall. Actually, I found out that my foot was broken this fall, but there’s a good chance that it had been broken for at least a few months before that. Stress fractures are tricky things, since they don’t show up well on X-rays or generate the same symptoms that an… Read More The Importance of Chill
Depression, to me, means sadness. To others, it encompasses much more pain, time, and energy combined into a state of emptiness and hopelessness for the past, present, and future. I have read many definitions, and I know the warning signs, the symptoms, the effects of the mental disease. What I don’t know is how it… Read More Seeing Depression from the Outside
In late May, I officially joined the Army ROTC (Reserved Officers Training Corps) program at The Ohio State University. A year ago, I would have never seen myself wearing a military uniform and walking across campus. I knew nothing about the military, but I had this feeling that directing myself towards this pathway would be… Read More My Experience in ROTC
Throughout this semester, I’ve been working on a project with the goal of raising social awareness on depression. Now I didn’t want this to be a typical project where I list the stigmas and tell people that mental illness is REAL. I feel like society has done a decent job of saying, “Yeah, depression is… Read More Defining Depression
