Traditional mental health services are overwhelmed. Long waitlists, expensive therapy, and complicated systems mean that millions of people aren’t getting the care they need. eMHIC is tackling this head-on by making digital mental health solutions available 24/7. Imagine having access to AI-driven mental health check-ins, crisis helplines you can text, peer support communities, and apps designed to help you track your well-being—all at your fingertips.

By Abbigale Kernya for The 44 North Managing Editor A woman with a sparkler celebrating the new year at a party. 1. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.    This has been my motto lately. I’m sure my friends are sick of hearing about it, and I admit saying it out loud repeatedly makes me feel about thirty years older than I actually am, but it’s true.    2024 was an epic learning curve for me in so many ways. Mental health, specifically, I had a friend

I remember lying with my face pressed against the cold tiles on my bathroom floor in agony. One arm wrapped around my abdomen, the other aimlessly scrolling on TikTok as a distraction from the previous vomit I had just cried up and nearly fainted, again, from the level of pain my body was experiencing. 

As the New Year unfolds and the glow of Valentine's Day approaches, it's a season of reflection, goal-setting, and cherishing the relationships that shape our lives. One relationship that is so often neglected, however, is that which we have with ourselves. As Aristotle so astutely put it, self-knowledge is truly life’s most important journey, but one that is so difficult to navigate.

There are times when everything in our life and in the world feels very heavy and dark. In troubled times, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and hopeless. This is a natural cycle for humans, in part because our species wreaks havoc and creates terrible circumstances. It’s also true that our brains are designed to focus on scanning for danger and threats, so we notice all the negatives.

You see whether yours speaks of macros and hours moved on an elliptical or of how hard you are supposed to be pushing yourself for your boss or that if your date doesn’t find you charming, clearly they are right and you are scum, we all have these apparitions. We all have slurped up the social norms that surround us at all moments, channelled through the comments of our grandmother at dinner or on our iPhone as we flip through reels showcasing people living the shiniest lives

I remember vividly standing in a Walmart checkout line several years ago looking at a photo of Chrissy Teigen on the front page of some celebrity gossip magazine with the title “Chrissy flaunts rolls at the beach.”

I stare into the mirror. In an instant all of it comes flooding forward. The things that I love deeply about myself — the curves of my smile, the brightness in my eyes, the warmth that I showcase with a quick hello. The things that I have been through – the darkest moments where I have felt invisible, unworthy and insignificant. The strengths that I embody, the talents that I showcase, the failures that I have sulked over. All of it becomes apparent with the gaze I take towar

When it comes to dealing with grief, the most crucial step is radical acceptance.

Our culture tends to fixate on the future-–on the brightness of what may unfold in our next phase without giving us the space to grieve what is left behind.

The praise was both addictive and draining. It activated that reward center while simultaneously building up a stockpile of anxiety, shame and self-consciousness.

About a month after I was diagnosed with anxiety, my mom encouraged me to go to my local gym to “let off some steam”