It is unfortunate that a negative stigma holds many people back from making good use of therapy as a powerful tool for living a healthy and happy life. In this article, Triston shares how therapy has become a powerful tool in his life and his experiences with it.

Fear of failure is said to be one of the greatest barriers to success, and that makes total sense —fear of failure can stop us from making attempts in the first place. But can anyone blame us for fearing failure? Chloris shares some tips that she learnt from her personal experience on how to cope with the fear of failure so that things are just a tad bit easier.

“With every failure that I was met with, my self-worth would crumble just a tiny bit, chipping away like the bricks of a stone wall.”

Failure has its way of making us feel ashamed and embarrassed. So much so that it can affect our self-worth and manifest in many unhealthy ways. Claire opens up about her own experience with failure and how she’s been #RedefiningFailure.

As a university undergraduate taking psychology, there haven’t been many opportunities for our volunteer, Claire to go out in the field and interact with people with mental health conditions. In the field of psychology, a Masters degree is required before one can be out in the field. However, she’s been doing a great job in helping Calm Collective run our monthly community event, Calm Circles. If you’ve participated in our event, you might have met her while she’s facilitating group discussions. In this article, she shares candidly about her experience and what she has learnt from being a Calm Circles facilitator.

What was meant to be a relaxing year-end trip to Thailand turned out to be an unexpected hiking and health retreat. Our volunteer writer, Will takes us with him on a trip to the highlands of Thailand, shares how the trip became a transformative experience and the lessons that he has since brought into his daily life.

As human beings, it is inevitable to feel a sense of inadequacy. When we are going through difficult times, we may notice we tend to be more critical of ourselves versus how we would treat other people in similar situations.

In this article, Karen shares with us her discovery with mindful self-compassion and how it provided her emotional strength to deal with a toxic work environment that was putting her down.