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“Color Cloud: Let's Pay Attention” by Jessica Poundstone
Want to feel more comfortable in your body? Social media can actually help sometimes
Self-expression through fashion is often more commonly seen in those with smaller bodies, but body-positive social media accounts are helping to inspire change.
Speak to the rhythm: how melodic intonation therapy helps stroke survivors learn to talk again
Melodic intonation therapy (MIT) is helping stroke survivors to regain speech and can be done remotely.
Mental illness remains taboo in the Philippines, but technology might just help break the stigma
In the Philippines, mental health remains a taboo subject, leading to increased suicide rates and limited access to mental health services. However, technology is playing a crucial role in breaking the stigma surrounding mental illness.
How music helped me leverage my repressed rage for transformational change
Anger is often a repressed emotion, but music can provide therapy and catharsis.
Social media shines a light on long COVID and other invisible illnesses
Spoonies around the world have found something online that they don’t get often enough offline: the ability to feel seen.
Cinema as a place of rest
Movies and mental health: the connection between the two is, largely, thanks to the connections they cultivate.
The evolution of hospital sounds: from pandemonium to peaceful
What would it feel like if hospitals sounded less alarming?
Graphic medicine: a different way to inform, connect, and heal
Can comics help people to learn, connect, and grow together? The graphic medicine movement thinks so.
Living with autism: finding community and support on social media
Social media is helping to expand resources for those on the autism spectrum
Poetry kept me going when everything else fell apart
Poetry is everywhere if you’re looking for it, which is helpful because poetry might also support your mental health.
How an SEL podcast saved my carpool
Teaching children important interpersonal skills in an academic setting just doesn’t work as well as engaging storytelling.
Use your mind to sleep better
Self-care at its finest might just be the five stages of sleep that harmonize to give your body and mind a chance to heal, regenerate, and strengthen immunity.
What does extreme isolation do to a person?
Interstellar’s real hero never gets the credit he deserves.
The body image app that helped me recover from a dating nightmare
Not feeling comfortable in your own skin is a painful way to live. Tammy Rabideau writes about an app that’s helped with body image and self-critical thoughts.
Are you truly ‘obsessed,’ or are you just happy to see me?
How the media can misrepresent a medical disorder that traps many people in an exhausting, distressing cycle.
Connecting brains and people through dance
Scientists now know that dance doesn’t just feel good — it can literally heal the body and help it to grow, right down to the brain’s pathways.
How to make the most of your meditation apps
Pro-tips for optimizing the tools to begin or fine-tune your meditation practice
Want to be happier? It starts with kindness
Research shows that prioritizing kindness toward others can help us to be happier. Learn how to cultivate kindness with the help of digital media.
Experiencing midlife brain fog? These apps can help
Apps that help you find your way through brain fog, whether from midlife changes, long COVID, or other causes.
Apps for sensory processing issues in a noisy, crowded world
Navigating this modern world with sensory processing issues is easier with some help from these apps