Wellness Wednesday: What To Do When Your Child Has a Meltdown This is an incredibly busy time of year for both parents and children. Between work and school and extracurricular activities and establishing routines, everyone in the household might be feeling stressed or on edge. So what do we do when our…
October is world bullying prevention month. In 2019, 20 percent of kids ages 12 to 17 reported being bullied at school. We see it all the time, both in-person and online. As technology and socialization progress and develop, there are more ways than ever to bully and be bullied. The more we talk…
Sunday, Oct. 10 is World Mental Health Day. In recent years, mental health professionals and those affected by mental illnesses have worked hard to break the stigma in relation to mental health. Misconceptions about mental health have played a prevalent role in making people affected by mental illnesses feel as though they should not…
Wellness Wednesday: How to Manage Perfectionism Perfectionism can find its way into people’s lives at any given point. Whether that means the person is a perfectionist or maybe they know a perfectionist, the effects of perfectionism can often take over and have negative outcomes. Having order, consistency and organization is not always feasible, and…
Susan Adamson-Ray has made a life and livelihood out of breathing life into the inanimate. As an artist, she combines brush, pigment and canvas to create commissioned portraits people pass by in the hallway every day with a smile. As a creator, she takes a handful of metal and assorted bits and shapes them into…
Wellness Wednesday: Ways to Support Your Mental Health at Work People spend almost a third of their life working. Any activity pertaining to work outside of the office or location simply adds on to how much time is dedicated to working. This could mean working from home, catching up on the weekends or just…
Wellness Wednesday: Talking to Teens About Social Media Social media has become the central focus of our everyday lives. Sharing announcements, checking up on distant family and scrolling online through the boredom are almost second nature. Younger people and adolescents are some of the most reliant on social media, and while online sites…
Wellness Wednesday: National Suicide Prevention Week Over the past couple of years, people have become more comfortable talking about their mental health. Suicide, however, remains a difficult and painful topic for some to talk about and ask for help. For this week’s Wellness Wednesday, Lauren English, a licensed professional counselor and business development…
Some of the most important emotional and mental health development that a person will experience happens during childhood. For this week’s Wellness Wednesday, Lauren English, a licensed professional counselor and business development representative with Pinnacle Pointe Hospital shares some tips to make sure that children feel connected, understood and safe. By emphasizing nurturing…
Mental Health Guide is the Natural State’s premier magazine to mental health and wellness, with features and exclusive interviews on how to live a happier and healthier life. Complete with a resource directory and stories highlighting the mental health of Arkansans, Mental Health Guide is read by tens of thousands of readers hoping to live life to the…
