Worried your new year will be filled with anxiety? Here are 5 mental health tips to help you tackle 2022
As we enter a new year laden with uncertainty, our mental health and sense of well-being are being tested again. It's OK (and normal) to fail these tests once in a while.
In the last year, the pandemic has opened up conversations about how to provide more widespread and culturally sensitive mental health support for all ages, especially after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy warned of an emerging youth mental health crisis in December.
Why is it so important to normalize these discussions? Loretta Whitson, executive director of the California Association of School Counselors, shared a message she recently received about a young girl who went to see a school counselor after attending a schoolwide mental health presentation and is now in much-needed therapy.
"'You gave that 12-year-old the courage to save herself,'"
