Using empowering language builds an inclusive and welcoming space. It supports healing previous traumas and addresses the systematic oppression that violent language perpetuates. Other than the ...

Using person-centered language, for instance, doesn’t really help when you’re stereotyping someone or describing your antidepressants as crazy pills. A focus on changes to language also raises the ...

Language matters, especially when it comes time to mental health and addiction. Fortunately, how we view mental health and addiction has improved dramatically over the past few decades, and even in ...

Question: What do you get when you bring together the nation’s best minds in the field of health at the Aspen Institute’s 2016 Spotlight Health conference? The answer, based on what I learned ...

I don’t remember when I first learned about mental health. Most mornings as a kid, my dad and I brushed our teeth together in the bathroom. And most mornings, I watched my dad take two pills from a ...