The Resilience Center - Contributor

Proposals to restrict social media access for people under 16 have sparked a surge of attention—especially as parents, educators, clinicians, and policymakers try to respond to rising concerns about teen mental health. Much of the debate centers on “online safety,” but the conversation often blurs together very different issues: exposure to harmful content, harassment, privacy risks, and the way algorithmic feeds shape what teens see (and how long they stay). Why this debate is getting so...

Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) are those quick, reflexive interpretations that can spike anxiety , shame, anger , or hopelessness in seconds. They often arrive as a sentence in your mind (“I’m failing,” “They’re judging me,” “This will never get better”) or as a vivid image of something going wrong. In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we treat ANTs as hypotheses—not facts—and we learn to slow them down, test them, and replace them with more accurate, compassionate thinking. This isn’t...

Workplace mental health has shifted from a perk to a core business driver. Here’s how the proactive care model helps prevent always-on burnout before it becomes a crisis.