By Megan Pocock, Content Team Contributor For many university students, the excitement of starting a new chapter is often shadowed by an unsettling question: Am I in the right place? I certainly felt this way when I first started. New environments, social demands, and academic pressures can leave you questioning whether you belong or deserve […]
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By Kelly Carrington, GAWD According to a popular festive song, this is the most wonderful time of the year. A time for loving, time for giving, mistletoe and festive beverages, etcetera. Yes, social media is a blaze with the picture-perfect Christmases we’re all planning on having. But wait, what happens if yours doesn’t fit the
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By Anton McCarthy You wake up, and your mind spins. I’m never going to hit that deadline! I forgot to clean the cat’s litter tray! (Poor Kitty). Argh, my boss just messaged — it’s not even 8 am! Or, you just have those surfacing thoughts about how you might not love your husband after all.
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By Amy Moore, Content Team Contributor For a long time, exercise was always something that I shied away from doing. It was never something that I enjoyed, and it constantly felt like a chore that I had to participate in. I was always the slowest in school PE classes and swimming, the one sport I
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By Mohammed Adil Sethi, Content Team Academic Selective Mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder; it is not a very frequent but a severe type of disorder in which a person can speak fluently but remains mute in some situations only (Muris & Ollendick 2021). However, if not treated correctly, SM can persist throughout childhood and
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By Craig Souter, Content Team Contributor At some point in life, most people have felt that things have been out of control, whether that was challenges at work, too many assignments in their studies, too many life events happening at once, or a big demand on their social time. However, there is one tactic which
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