by uprisepsychology | Dec 31, 2025 | Anxiety, Coping with Mental Health Challenges, Eating disorders and disordered eating, Self-Compassion
By Dr. Melisa Arias-Valenzuela, C. Psych. January often comes with an unspoken expectation: reset, restart, fix yourself.Social media is filled with detoxes, diet plans, and promises of a “new you.” But for many people, this pressure does the opposite of what it...
by uprisepsychology | Oct 27, 2025 | Coping with Mental Health Challenges
By Dr. Melisa Arias-Valenzuela, C. Psych. As the days get shorter and the temperature drops, many people start to feel their energy and motivation fade. If you notice your mood dipping as autumn turns to winter, you may be experiencing Seasonal Affective Disorder...
by uprisepsychology | Aug 17, 2024 | Coping with Mental Health Challenges, Eating disorders and disordered eating, Eating disorders and disordered eating, Self-Compassion, Uncategorized
How can I like my body? How should I feed my body? How important is my appearance when feeding or moving my body? In a world where we are surrounded by social media and advertisements, ideas of what we should be putting into our body, how we should move and how we...
by uprisepsychology | Apr 15, 2024 | Coping with Mental Health Challenges, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Stress and Burnout, Students
Everyone has habits, whether they are helpful, unhelpful, or just neutral. Without habits, doing everyday things would be a lot more difficult. For example, as you go to work often, you form the habit of taking the same route. It makes it easier to know where...
by uprisepsychology | Dec 4, 2023 | Anxiety, Coping with Mental Health Challenges, Mindfulness, Perfectionism, Self-Compassion, Stress and Burnout, Uncategorized
With the cold winds and snow on the ground, as well as increasing emails about Christmas gifts ideas, there’s no doubt about it; the Holidays are coming! While this might be a joyous time for many people, the holidays bring out a sense of dread to many others. And in...
by uprisepsychology | Oct 19, 2023 | Anxiety, Coping with Mental Health Challenges, Stress and Burnout, Students
In the last few years, increased attention has been set on university students’ mental health struggles. With the rising rates of anxiety and depression (Howard et al., 2021; Linden et al., 2021), overflowing university counselling centers as well as...
