Mental

Mental

Me Time Keeps You From Choking People (Or How Selfishness Can Save Your Sanity)

According to physics, Time is a scalar quantity. Translated for people like me who almost flunked that class, this means

Nanea Hoffman

Posted on July 15, 2015

Mental

Pulling Threads

When I was a child, the library of my little Catholic elementary school was my refuge. For a puny kid with terrible eyesight

Nanea Hoffman

Posted on May 14, 2015

Mental

Recalibration | The Persistent Optimist

A week ago I was feeling ansty. Restless for paths not taken and parallel lives in which exciting dramas played out on the

Jordan Rosenfeld

Posted on April 20, 2015

Mental, Wellness

7 Times You Were Probably Wrong About My Anxiety

When you live with anxiety, you are accustomed to the incessant hum of adrenaline in your veins and the prickly

Nanea Hoffman

Posted on April 17, 2015

Culture, Family, Mental

Love Me For Me, Not For My Leg Rolls

Earlier this week, a company called Wry Baby sparked controversy with one of their baby onesies, which read “I hate my

Emily Parker

Posted on March 18, 2015

Inspiration, Mental, Self Care

Done Is Better Than Perfect

For many years, I wrote mostly in my head. I might spend an entire day or even a week formulating a single sentence, turning

Nanea Hoffman

Posted on March 6, 2015

Mental

What’s Your Hurry? | The Persistent Optimist

The backroads from my son’s school to our home are exquisite: hilly and finally green, since we’ve gotten just enough rain to

Jordan Rosenfeld

Posted on March 2, 2015

Mental

Sweatpants & Sanity | 4 Things That Are Not True About Anxiety

For years, I convinced myself I didn’t really have an anxiety problem because I couldn’t easily pigeonhole it into one of the

Guest Author

Posted on February 19, 2015

Mental

Sweatpants & Sanity | 7 Lies Depression Tells

According to the National Institute of Medical Health, “Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad. But these feelings are

Nanea Hoffman

Posted on January 22, 2015

Mental

Finding Your Compass | The Persistent Optimist

In so many of my favorite childhood stories, the solution or missing knowledge to the protagonist’s problem turns out to lie

Jordan Rosenfeld

Posted on January 19, 2015