The group AJR is known for their upbeat tunes and relatable down to earth messages. The group has many songs that express struggling with mental health, such as the song Humpty Dumpty. This song is a track on their most recent album, OK Orchestra, and discusses the feeling of avoiding facing your problems and hiding […]
Disney has made endless amounts of classic animations for anyone to enjoy and cherish. In 2015, Disney came out with what is now known as a classic animated film, Inside Out. This movie follows Riley as she and her family move cities. The movie is based on Riley’s emotions, Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust. […]
The group AJR is an American group made up of three brothers. Their music depicts very down to earth messages that are relatable to the listeners. Their music covers topics such as divorce, the pandemic, success and failure, growing up, guilty pleasures, mental health and more. The song Karma by AJR is one of the […]
Franz Pohl Bühler was born in 1868 and was reported to have had “auditory hallucinations as early as 16 years” old. When he was fired from his job due to his unusual behaviour, he entered a mental health institution in Germany where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Bühler was a self-taught artist and created beautiful […]
Edith Lebeau is a Canadian portrait artist based in Montreal, Québec whose enthralling pieces focus on mental health awareness and destigmatizing mental illness. Lebeau showcases the stories of women characters through emotionally charged artistic explorations of struggle, fear, and insecurity as well as strength and hope. Lebeau’s piece “The Darkest Corner of Her Mind” is […]
The poems of author Charles Bukowski drudge through the mundane aspects of everyday life; but there is a bittersweet candidness to his observations that pull at the universal human condition, and that’s what continues to arrest readers today. In this poem, Bukowski animates his vulnerability as a timid bluebird, one that he keeps behind his […]
“Hoax” is the final track on Taylor Swift’s grammy award winning 2020 album “Folklore”. In this song, Taylor describes what turned out to be a false love, that has broken her heart and left her scared. Within the two verses of the song, Taylor explains how she perceives this toxic relationship, however, despite how heartbroken […]
Emily Dickinson was one of the most prolific and original authors of her time. She constantly challenged the existing framework and definitions of poetry by her experimental expression. The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry are often sharp observers who see inescapable limitations of their society, while projecting their imagined escapes. In her poem The Soul Has […]
Calling procrastination a problem of motivation, lack of willpower or self-agency merely explains a problem by its presenting symptoms and obscures the root cause of the issue. In his TEDx talk at Princeton University, Nic Voge provides valuable insights about understanding and overcoming procrastination from a self-worth theory perspective. He explains how procrastination is a form of […]
In this informative Ted Talk titled “What Causes Panic Attacks, and How Can You Prevent Them?”, Dr. Cindy J. Aaronson educates us on panic attacks, taking us through the physiological, psychological and environmental triggers of them. She mentions how these environmental triggers can specifically be related to reminders of past traumatic life-events. She also provides […]