Taking Care of Our Mental Health

How does feminism contribute to body image across generations? A new study by Analisa Arroyo reveals the powerful influence of how we feel about our own bodies.

Feminist therapy has become more intersectional and inclusive since its emergence in the 1960s. But its radical core principles remain, as it works to undo the harms of patriarchy to our mental health and development.

Here are helpful strategies for taking care of our mental health in the face of society's sexism and bias against women.

Shweta Kapoor, MD, PhD, discusses medications, therapies, and other treatment options that can help us cope and heal after sexual trauma, as well as how partners can care supportively for survivors of sexual abuse.

A chapter from Hesperian Health Guides highlights how community organizing can promote mental health and wellbeing

To love and care for others, we must first care for ourselves. This article by licensed therapist Weena Cullins provides self-care tips for caregivers of people with mental illness.

This guide provides tools and Q&A with a clinical psychologist to help us navigate difficulties with family around the holidays.

Find groups and organizations that support and advocate for the mental health and wellbeing of all people, especially those in marginalized communities.

This guide explains “triggers,” or what we like to call “activators,” which are things that activate the nervous system into its alert state.

Our Bodies Ourselves content expert Maggie Teliska offers tools to cope with anxiety, from the perspective of a heart failure patient.

LM talks about the ways in which she has used social media throughout her life.

SD gives advice to people who struggle with staying active and discusses the relationship with her health and her work as a therapist.