Category: Mental Health

Product Development

When I started Balance Health Products, I never dreamed how much I would lean on my journalism degree. Through it I had learned the most effective ways to research. I had learned how to take large and complicated amounts of information and distill it down to its purest form and

My Anxiety Journey

Trigger warning: This article contains scenes which may be hard for those with anxiety, panic attacks or intrusive thoughts to read. I started having panic attacks when I was 24. They were horrible. My first one was going over the 520 bridge at night. The floating bridge is about 2

Turning Off the News

There are countless things I learned from my therapist, but the biggest one for me at the beginning of my anxiety journey was learning to turn off the news. I was becoming overwhelmed by what was going on in the world and I was being crushed under the weight of

Finding the Right Therapist

When I first started having panic attacks, I had some really crappy therapists.  At first, I had a hard time accepting going to therapy. Not only was there a certain stigma attached to it, I didn’t feel like anyone could help me. If I wanted to learn something about anxiety,