By Beth Lauren, certified Ayurveda Wellness Counselor, founder of Sangha NYC and author of Reeling: Misadventures in Moviemaking, Money and Love It can be challenging to assess how the mind contributes to a person’s overall physical health. Still, the mind-body connection is now widely accepted by Western medical traditions as it has been by Eastern […]
Posts tagged with "psychological"
Elle × FKA Twigs
KO MÉDIA REVEALS AN INSPIRINGMAY ISSUE OF ELLE CANADA KO Média is proud to unveil the May issue of ELLE Canada featuring FKA twigs. The British singer, dancer and actor shares the story of her ongoing lawsuit against ex-boyfriend Shia LaBoeuf for psychological, verbal and physical abuse, which culminated in a terrifying high-speed car ride. “It’s a miracle I came […]
American Attitudes Towards Immigrants
New Report: What Immigration Issues Do Americans Hold Sacred? Why has immigration moved from being a mundane policy issue into one of the most hotly-debated topics in American politics today? Why was family separation so widely rebuked by the public and why is building a border wall so divisive? Answers to these questions can be […]
Non-Immigrant Kids Respond Differently When Immigrant Children Are Bullied
A recent study finds that, while youth think all bullying is bad, non-immigrant adolescents object less to bullying when the victim is an immigrant. However, the study found that the more contact immigrant and non-immigrant children had with each other, the more strongly they objected to bullying. “We know that bystanders can play a key […]
10 facts about Anxiety Disorder
Vinay Saranga M.D. is a psychiatrist and founder of Saranga Comprehensive Psychiatry. He offers these 10 facts about anxiety disorders: 1. There’s a difference between anxiety and an anxiety disorder: Everybody experiences anxiety from time to time. It quite often presents itself when we are feeling scared, stressed or worried and that’s normal anxiety. People with a true […]
Stress Awareness Month: Alleviating Stress and Working Out
Natalie Durand-Bush, PhD, CMPC Association for Applied Sport Psychology Executive Board Member Full Professor, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Co-Founder, Canadian Centre for Mental Health, Ottawa, Canada Recovery plays a vital role in sport. It is necessary to prevent underperformance, overtraining, burnout, injuries, and illness. This is mainly due to the fact that athletes are […]