Have ALL of the feelings! The human experience is intense and wonderful and challenging. But you’re working on the skills to handle whatever your brain and the world can throw at you. And you’re going to embrace it all as…
Overcoming stigma when blogging about health and illness.
I recently gave a keynote presentation at Diabetes Linkup, a conference for Type 2 Diabetes bloggers, on the topic of overcoming stigma to connect with peers online. I was sharing lessons learned from the past four years of sharing about my…
How to Deal with Intrusive Thoughts (video)
When it comes to dealing with horrible, weird, upsetting, terrifying intrusive thoughts or whatever else your brain is throwing up when you’re struggling with mental illness, learning to practice accepting the stuff in your head and shifting your focus to…
Avoiding Anxiety Triggers (video)
When it comes to avoiding anxiety triggers, approach them in the same way you would if you had a physical injury: understand what’s causing the pain and stop that, do specific exercises to recover from the injury, and then gradually…
Getting back to normal after mental illness. (video)
I often hear people talking about “normal” and wanting things to be the way they used to be before they got diagnosed with a mental illness. But normal and the way things used to be is what led to the…
Tackle your problems, not just your symptoms.
Sometimes it’s valuable to deal with symptoms so you can then free yourself up to tackle your real problems. But when it comes to recovering from a mental illness, focusing only on the symptoms can cause you to keep on…
The top 10 best places to meditate: your brain.
Don’t get into the habit of thinking there are good places for meditation or bad places. Like many things we do in the hope of making a task easier, we only create barriers when we insist we require something before…
Motivation to beat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Doing behavioral therapies like Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP) or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) are tough. And to be successful at those you need to do a lot of other tough things like eat well and exercise and communicate better….
The top 10 things you need to start meditating:
All you need is your brain. You don’t even need expensive shoes or Under Armor or a helmet to meditate. Of course, you could wear all of that while you meditate if you wanted to. You could wear a pink…
The Brainly – a weekly email full of brains
I know that many of you are really busy so the EVERYBODY HAS A BRAIN team has streamlined the process of accessing our content and we now have a weekly newsletter that features the best brainful content from EVERYBODY HAS…
Everybody has a Brain – Pinterest Board
In addition to the Everybody has a Brain Tumblr, we now have an Everybody has a Brain Pinterest board that has almost 300,000 followers. Our team of wonderful brain designers, Andrew, Matt, and Daniela, pin images on their that are…
Close the gap between who you are and who you’re pretending to be.
Be yourself seems like it would be an incredibly simple task and yet it’s something so many of us struggle with. In many ways, that’s a struggle driven by trying to avoid anxieties. If you spend much of your life…