Todd Smith

When someone asks about your health, you probably think about your physical wellbeing first. But what about your mental health? This invisible aspect of our wellbeing affects every decision you make, every relationship you foster, and every challenge you face. Despite its crucial role in our lives, mental health is still largely misunderstood. Mental health […]

In our previous exploration of what mental health truly means, we discovered that it exists on a spectrum from languishing to flourishing. It is much more than just the absence of illness. Now comes the crucial question: Why is mental health important? And why should mental health matter to you, your relationships, and your community?

We often consider mental health to be simply the absence of illness or distress, but it’s much more. It includes our emotional, cognitive, and social wellbeing, the foundation of how we experience the world (Galderisi et al., 2015; Gautam et al., 2024). Mental health shapes how we think, feel, behave, and connect with others, influencing

When we talk about mental health, our ability to flourish, we are often really talking about two different things: mental ill-health and mental illness. Understanding the difference can be life-changing, both for you and the people you care about. Mental ill-health, which is known as languishing within the languishing-to-flourishing continuum concept, refers to those periods

What is happiness? What is gratitude? We each have our own definitions of these, and for the most part, they will probably sound pretty similar. But if we were to take a deeper dive into the two, we would we find out more about ourselves, for instance, our behavioral tendencies and emotional wellbeing, than just