Verywell Mind

1 week ago | verywellmind.com | Nick Ingalls

Let's start with the obvious: location sharing is a pretty cool example of modern technology. If a friend, family member, or partner has shared their location with you on their phone, you can open up the relevant app and see exactly where they (or at least their phone) are at any given time. My wife and I do have location sharing turned on, but use it only sparingly.

1 week ago | verywellmind.com | Sanjana Gupta

Breakups are painful (for both parties), especially when you care about the person and don’t want to hurt them. But sometimes you just don’t feel it anymore, even if your partner is kind, has a good head on their shoulders, and your mom loves them. Although breaking up with them feels awful, staying in a relationship that doesn’t feel right can be worse in the long run. “You’re not obligated to stay in a relationship you’re no longer emotionally invested in.

1 week ago | verywellmind.com | Julia Childs Heyl

We all know that how you start your day matters, and morning rituals have become a cornerstone of overall wellness. It isn’t uncommon to hear everyone from your boss to celebrities herald their morning routines as a reason they’re successful. Though drinking hot lemon water, exercising, and meditation are the typical morning go-tos, we became interested in hearing more about the uncommon routines people do in those precious first ten minutes of the morning.

1 week ago | verywellmind.com | Julia Childs Heyl

Manifestation is everywhere these days, seemingly becoming a catch-all solution for all issues. Looking for love? Manifest it. Need a career change? Manifest it. Struggling financially? There’s a manifestation for that, too. With all this focus on how to manifest a new reality, it is natural to question if any of this actually works. If it is so easy to manifest whatever we want, then wouldn’t we already have everything we want? The newest trend in manifestation is the 17-second manifestation method.

1 week ago | verywellmind.com | Nick Ingalls

When TV, film, and Broadway actor Taye Diggs first learned that his sister Christian had been diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young adult, one of his biggest hurdles to understanding her condition is something many of us face. He had to overcome the common myths and misconceptions around schizophrenia that are perpetuated by inaccurate media portrayals like in the films Me, Myself & Irene and Donnie Darko. "For me, schizophrenia was just what was portrayed in movies and on TV," Diggs says.