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Disclaimer: This article is written from the perspective of heterogeneous couples When it comes to postpartum depression, most people focus on moms and children. In fact, fathers are also the significant ones to talk to. Please meet Steven Gallegos . He is a new dad. He was over the moon, welcoming her son, Caleb. However, Steven, who had never suffered from anxiety or depression before, said he began to feel hopeless, overwhelmed, irritable, and, at times, dealt with suicidal thoughts. "There was just kind of like a fog of, 'I didn't know what to do.' Honestly, my mind was a complete jumble of confusion as I pondered, "What the hell is going on?" Like, how do I navigate this?" Steven remarked. Steven is not on his own. Studies say one in ten fathers experiences mental health difficulties in the first year of postpartum (Cookin et al., 2015). Furthermore, according to the study mentioned in Dad & Mental Health: A Parents & Verywell Mind Study (20...

In 2019, Derek Thompson, an American podcaster and journalist, wrote an article at the Atlantic that expressed the new term, namely workism. In a nutshell, workism is the belief that employment is not only necessary for financial production but also the centerpiece of an individual’s life purpose. Moreover, workism tends to claim work as a new religion for people, and, to be more specific, for Americans. As cited from factcompany.com, in 1990, about 90% of Americans identified as Christians, 5% were categorized as belonging to another religion, and the rest had no religion affiliation (PEW Research, 2022). Fast forward to today: 63% of Americans identify as Christians, around 8% categorize as belonging to another religion, and 29% state they have no religious affiliation at all. “Some people worship beauty, some have political identities, and some worship their children. But everybody believes something. Workism is among the most potent of the new religious competing for congregants,”...

I still remember vividly how nervous I was a few days before my first quarter. A day before, I could not sleep well. overthinking everything. I was terrified. It was odd. If this is something I wanted a long time ago, then why should I feel like that? Oh, Lord!  Time goes by. I never skipped a class. "I came to the States to pursue my master's, so I should always prioritize my study," my mind screamed that way before the day one arrived in Seattle. I did not always come to the class happily. Sometimes, and not many times, I joined class with a sleepyhead, a sad heart, and a headache. However, at the end of the day, I always made it! Today, December 4, 2023, my favorite course this quarter has ended. It is a wellness narrative . Even though this subject is the hardest and the most credit, it became my most-liked! Lara Bradshaw is the instructor. I highly admire her! She has a specialization in discourse analysis and a strong background in media. I hope one day I can be a b...

Please meet Ruchika Tulshyan . She is the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy practice. Furthermore, she’s the author of a book titled “Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work." Recently, she is working on her next book, “Uncompete: Dismantling a Competition Mindset to Unlock Liberation, Opportunity, and Peace." Either myself or you were both correct. I did not mistype, and you did not misread. Uncompete, it is. You will be unable to find this word in any type of dictionary. “It is a new word, by me,” said Ruchika. Basically, “un” is a prefix meaning "not." According to dictionary.com, this prefix is freely used as an English formative, giving negative or opposite force in adjectives and their derivative adverbs and nouns, such as unfair, unfelt, unseen, unheard, unformed, and so on. Uncompete, Ruchika added, is, in a nutshell, a state of not competing with each other. Competition is in all of our layers of ...