October 10, 2020 is World Mental Health Day, a day for awareness, education, and advocacy against the social stigma of seeking help for mental health concerns. We are living through a year of trauma and high stress on many fronts. If you find yourself in […]
Between a global pandemic, an upcoming political election, and social injustice and unrest, it’s no surprise that many of us feel less than optimistic about the world right now. Just turn on the TV for a few minutes and your blood pressure will start rising! […]
In this piece in Psychology Today, Allison McWilliams (’95), VP for Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development at Wake Forest, offers up wisdom about how we can all learn from and make changes as a result of living through a global pandemic.
In the following webinar from our LEARN with @LifeAfterWake platform, Wake Forest alumnus Ryan Riccordella (’15) focuses in on the realities of living through a global pandemic, the importance of avoiding comparisons (particularly during high stress times!), and strategies for personal compassion and accountability.
Unless you have a job role requiring you to be in-person at your place of employment, you’re likely one of the millions of people working from home. Whether you’re used to working remotely or you suddenly found yourself turning your dining room table into an […]
In this piece by Kate Morgan from the BBC, the act of planning is examined as a coping mechanism for our mental health and wellbeing, especially during this current time of stress. By scheduling future events, our brains must acknowledge that there actually will be […]
By Mark Covington (’13), LPC, Psychotherapist and PhD Candidate, Washington, DC Disconnection, dysfunction, dysregulation, and distress are what therapists and those in academia call “The Four D’s” of why most people enter into psychotherapy. These are also reasons why I believe that my clients enter […]
By Daniella Maria Feijoo (’19). Daniella (she/her) served as Wake Forest University’s Campus Life Fellow in the Office of Wellbeing 2019-2020 and is currently pursuing her M.S.Ed degree in Higher Education Student Affairs at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. As a young professional, whether you […]
By Amy Shack Egan (’14) of Modern Rebel I’ve lived in New York City for five years. In that time I’ve learned to love its complex, unforgiving nature – the push for innovation, hustle, and noise. But several weeks ago, New York City went […]
If there’s any commonality to our experience right now, it’s that we’re all experiencing a bit of trauma due to this global pandemic. For some, this is big, life and death trauma. For others, it’s lower-level but still present, as people learn to work and […]
