My Shadow / My Friend
The month of September was rough for me on a personal level. Just those series of days where it feels like nothing ever goes right... from the big things like grief from a very recent loss, down to the smallest little thing like spilling a tiny amount of coffee on a...
7 Ways To Sleep Better While Learning Virtually
We love hearing from others who know the importance of self-care, and we recently heard from a team member at MySlumberYard.com about this awesome article about navigating better sleep while learning virtually. They were kind enough to let us share this article with...
An Interview With the Minds Behind Connected Mind
Hi there, and thank you for checking out the Shadow’s Edge blog! I’m the community manager for Shadow’s Edge, and I love sharing new resources with our audience whenever I can. We make a lot of really awesome friends at our company, and I wanted to introduce our...
How to Break Negative Thought Patterns
Our team at Shadow's Edge loves to work with guest authors! And for this week's blogpost, we have the wonderful guest author Swati Chugh writing about how to break negative thought patterns! And man, that can be really hard to do when life isn't going how we would...
Coping Mechanisms – Healthy vs Unhealthy
When I was a kid my mom would take me into bars with her and drink. She didn’t really give much thought that I was 10, or 12, or whatever age. Sometimes she took my sister and me both, mainly because she didn’t want to find a babysitter and didn’t want to leave us...
Returning to School with Chronic Illness or Disability
If you have a chronic illness or disability, returning to school can be a scary, stressful experience. That’s especially true if you’ve been out for a while being diagnosed, treated, or possibly home/hospital schooled. It might have been six months, a year or...
How Buying Second-Hand Helps My Mental Health
Like many young people today, I struggle with anxiety and depression over the health of our planet. Seeing news about climate change and plastic waste filling our oceans really puts a huge weight on my mental health. I get to feeling like "Why even try? What's it all...
Debunking 7 Mental Health Myths
People struggling with mental health concerns are fighting more than their own minds. They also fight against misconceptions that consider people with mental health problems dangerous, lazy, useless, or beyond help. One thing we can do as a society to help individuals...
Why Should We Process Our Feelings?
Feelings have a rhythm of their own – they arrive, they linger, they pass. Often it is better to face those feelings head-on and allow them to follow their natural cycle than to avoid them.
Mobility-Friendly Yoga for Mental Health
There are tons of ways to take charge of your mental and emotional health, and one of the most well-known stress relieving practices out there is yoga. Yoga is a great way to combat stress, anxiety, and depression. But it can be a little hard to know where to start,...