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A therapist with a notepad and pen in hand is sitting down, cross-legged, in a chair. Next to the therapist is a glass of water and a clear glass table. In the corner of the image, a comic text speech bubble by the patient says, "Let's get to the bottom of this!"

7 Ways to Overcome Your Hesitations to Seeing a Therapist

Meggie, in a blue tank top and shorts, is sleeping with a white ball cap covering her face. She is sleeping in the aisle of a small traveling bus. Her legs are resting on a seat while her head is resting against a pile of suitcases in the back of the bus, which is traveling through Costa Rica. In a comic text bubble, it says, "Anywhere is a comfy bed for snoozin'"

15 Satirical Travel Sarcasms We Can All Relate To (2021)

Someone at their laptop is holding up their bottle of prescription medications. In a comic text bubble, they say, "Let's see if my destination will allow my medication."

How to Safely Bring Mental Health Medications when Traveling Internationally

A black and white photo of the Vietnamese boat people war refugees crammed on a small boat out at sea. Photo taken in 1982. A comic text bubble says, "I wasn't a part of the event! How could my parents' trauma affect me?" Image by Welcome to all and thank you for your visit ! ツ from Pixabay

How Intergenerational Trauma from the Vietnam War Fed My Social Anxiety

A family of four is silhouetted while walking along the beach at an orange sunset. One of the family members in a comic text bubble says, "Hey, can I talk to y'all about something?"

How to Open Up About Your Mental Illness to Family and Friends

Meggie is wearing jeans, brown boots, and a white sweater. One foot is resting on the metal bumper of a rusty old car. Behind them is the desert and scrubby light green shrub plants in the desert. Big blue sky. Meggie says, "My brain's getting a lot of exercise." Petrified Forest National Park nearby Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America.

10 Long-Term Ways Travel Can Improve Your Mental Health

Statues of a lion and powerful human figures stand in front of a famous Vietnamese shopping building called Phuoc Loc Tho, with its red decor and lettering, in Asian Garden Mall, Bolsa Avenue, Westminster, Little Saigon, Orange County, California, United States of America. A comic text bubble says, "And to think Arby's is only a few blocks away"

Little Saigon, Big Foreigner: The Struggle to Connect with My Vietnamese Heritage is Real

A person is holding open a book with both hands over the ocean. in a comic text bubble, the open book says, "I have so much awesome stuff to share with you!"

4 Healthy Reasons Why Books are the Best Teachers

Airport travelers silhouetted in black stand in a line. A world map in the color blue is behind them. A comic text bubble says, "Why wait?"

How to Become a Global Entry Member (You’ll Save Time AND Travel Stress!)

A book with white pages is lying in a grassy field with white flowers. The book is saying a comic text bubble, "read me! i'll teach you resilience for only a few bucks!"

5 Timeless Books That Helped Me Overcome My Worst Mental Health Problems (Or, Books about Resilience and Emotional Security)

Lots of museum exhibits and worded information and photographs in an interior museum. In a comic text bubble, Meggie says, "I have to read everything?!" Oconaluftee Visitor Center of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States. Ancestral homeland of the Cherokee Native Americans.

My 3 Most Common OCD Triggers While Traveling (And How I Treat Them)

A woman has a laptop computer in front of her. the screen says "mental health." she is writing notes down on a journal. in a comic speech bubble, she thinks, "these consultation phone numbers might be the most important ones i'll jot down all year"

5 Ways to Efficiently Find the Right Therapist For You

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My dad's wooden boat on the sea. A pile of nearly faint people are lying at the bow.

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Meggie is wearing a black and red striped shirt as she is holding a white sack. She is standing in front of the Samuel Beckett white harp bridge in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The bridge goes over the River Liffey. A blue sky with some clouds hangs over. Meggie, in a comic text box, says "this white sack isn't the only baggage i have to carry"

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Meggie with her light blue jacket, backpack, and white shorts is walking through a dark cavernous tunnel, which used to have a railway. She is walking on gravel and towards the light at the end of the tunnel. She says in a comic text bubble, "In a painful dark place on my way to the light, my greatest potential." The Othello Tunnels in Hope, Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada.

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