Mental Health Awareness

In April, a TikTok came across my for you page that stopped me in my tracks. In it, Jessica Macnair, LPC, a therapist based in Washington, D.C., was beggin

Eso es para locos. Esta generación… siempre inventando. These are the words I’d hear anytime I mentioned therapy or mental health growing up.

Breakups, no matter why they happen or who they’re with, are tough. But deciding it’s time to stop seeing your therapist can, in the best cases, be a h

Nearly every mental health expert I’ve spoken to as a wellness writer for Refinery29 has emphasized to me the importance of therapy. It doesn’t matter

Prince Harry has been a mental health advocate for years, but in his first interview since he and Meghan Markle sat down with Oprah Winfrey, he really want

When my grandfather passed away in 2009, I posted a status on MySpace that read, “rip grandfather <3”. Looking back, it seems cringey and performati

On April 20, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd in May 2020, when he knelt on the unarmed man’s n

If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that it can be tricky to come across as genuine virtually. But Gaela Solo has the skill down. She has a soo

It was December 2020, and Martha Midkiff was sick and nervous. She was so nervous, it was making her sick. No — she was sick and it was making her nervou

In March of 2020, Taylor*, 27, a graduate student at Stanford University in California, was having a phone session with her psychiatrist when they told her

Looking for the “bright side” of a pandemic that has killed more than half a million Americans and 2.6 million people worldwide can feel… Pollyan

I’m a Britney Spears super-fan from way back. I remember bouncing up and down on my best friend’s floral bedspread, bellowing the lyrics to “Lucky”

Lately I’ve been structuring my whole day in Google Calendar, dedicating each neatly segmented block of time to writing a story, exercising, and even thi

The entirety of the last year has been scary and uncertain, but the first few weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic were particularly so. Practically overnight, a

The following article contains spoilers for HBO Max’s Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests.  The first time I remember taking a personal

In the early days of the pandemic, we were told to sing “Happy Birthday.” It was supposed to be a marker, of sorts, an easy way of knowing that we’d

The tissue box gets a lot of action during Taraji P. Henson’s talk show, Peace of Mind. In more episodes than not, Henson or her co-host Tracie Jade Jenk