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It has been one year since the World Health Organization declared we were living in a pandemic. The stress of this reality can impact our health, physically and mentally. Here are tips to help us stay well from an award-winning scientist who has devoted his career to mental health and researching the brain.
Is the stress of this new reality getting to you? Take a moment to focus on your own mental wellness with one of these quick restorative ideas.
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. This hair care brand is working to help stylists approach and understand this highly taboo and stigmatized topic.
Despite being faced with difficult, stressful times, these stylists share how they are being productive, both personally and professionally, while at home. Get ideas from them!
You're not only thinking about what is currently happening, but also projecting into the future. Strategies for bringing yourself back to the present moment and avoiding virus "future tripping."
One salon in the United Kingdom and another in the United States tap into their resources to help bring mental health support to their employees. Discover how they set this support up and what a difference it is making to the team's well-being and the salon's bottom line.
You can help erase the stigma of having mental illness, which keeps many people from seeking treatment.
Beauty industry guru Geno Stampora advises hairdressers to plan for a long and healthy career by making sure to rest, read, hydrate and put things in perspective.
Fixing hopeless hair for a depressed client lifts a hairdresser's spirit.
Current events in the news have Americans caught between the need to grieve and the mandate to keep moving forward. Whether your loss is very personal or shared with a community, it’s important to take measures to make sure you’re ...
Bringing mental illness out of the shadows has long been a goal of the mental health community. In 2015, this movement caught steam as both famous and non-famous sufferers shared their stories publically. The Mighty, a website devoted to ...
Succeeding as a hairdresser requires you to have a heart as soft as cotton and nerves as hard as steel. You try to make people feel great when, in return, they may complain that you missed the mark on their hair color. It takes mental stamina to ...
UCLA has made audio meditation guidance available as free online podcasts ready to play on the UCLA website and also available for downloading free from iTunes. Ranging in length from 5 to 19 minutes, the eight topics ...
Stress on the job has been shown in study after study to be a major source of health problems. Salon professionals have always been fortunate that a major reason people report feeling stress on the job—a fear of being fired or laid ...
Even on these beautiful spring days of May, some people are feeling low. Fighting depression and other mental health disorders is not easy, but it’s even harder to do alone. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) asks all of us to ...
Having a bad day? Tell someone what happened, but put a positive spin on it. The way you talk about it can affect your psychological health. When a team of researchers conducted two studies that looked into the stories we tell about ...
Our Healthy Hairdresser friend Pravana Global Creative Director Sherri Jessee, 2013 NAHA Editorial Stylist of the Year, introduced us to yoga and Ayurveda expert Katie Silcox, whose new book, Healthy Happy Sexy, guides women toward establishing ...
