Apsiha Blog
Mental Health Tips for Expats: How to Thrive While Living Abroad
Living abroad is thrilling and transformative. From navigating new cultures to rediscovering your values, the expat experience is both challenging and deeply enriching. As you adapt and grow, these tips can help you thrive and make the most of the journey.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2025-29-08
How to Get the Best Out of Psychotherapy?
Reaching out for therapy before a crisis can transform your journey from patching things up until the next crisis hits to empowered growth. Listed hereafter are few suggestions on how to get the best out of therapy to support you on your journey.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2025-18-08
Navigating the Emotional Rollercoaster: Building Regulation and Resilience
Handling intense emotions can feel like a rollercoaster - full of twists, drops, and highs. Instead of trying to control them, embracing them with curiosity and self-compassion helps us to enjoy the ride. Emotional turmoil can become an opportunity for growth, resilience, and balance.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2025-06-02
Trauma-informed Workplaces - Why We Need Them and What Do They Look Like
Not all difficulties linked with mental health are related to work, but they affect workplace wellbeing levels and occupational health. We listed a few indicators of trauma-informed workplaces and ideas on how to implement much needed organizational changes.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2025-05-31
Different Faces of Worry - Handling Generalized Anxiety
As generalized anxiety is the mean big brother of worry, it could be useful to reflect on this complex relationship to make sense of it and then explore and employ useful strategies to manage it.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2024-11-02
How Can I Benefit from Schema Therapy?
The goal of Schema therapy is to increase awareness and to help you acknowledge and manage rigid patterns and survival modes that no longer serve you in a safe and supportive environment. Read on if interested in improving relationship with yourself and other people.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2024-08-11
High-Functioning Anxiety As a Badge of Honor? We Need To Do Better
Frantic efforts, high standards, and self-criticality driven by anxiety are sometimes regarded as high-functioning. More frequently than not, it is a debilitating coping response and unsustainable mode. Read on if interested in managing your anxiety better.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2024-07-14
Self-Compassion - 3 Reasons Why It Matters and How to Cultivate It
Self-compassion mitigates the effects of challenging life events and is linked to less mental health problems. Discover how to cultivate it in your daily life to achieve psychological flexibility and thrive.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2024-05-29
4 Cues That You Found a Culturally Sensitive Therapist
There are a few things to keep in mind when choosing your therapist to avoid a cookie-cutter approach to your wellbeing. We listed suggestions on how to spot a culturally sensitive one.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2024-04-16
5 Tips for Expats on Surviving Holidays While Abroad
Finding joy, meaningful connections and that holiday cheer can be both challenging and draining. Especially if you are a part of the expat community. We listed a few ideas on how to get the best of it.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2023-12-22
Managing Stress - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
How we acknowledge and approach stress can change the bodily response and help us to tune into challenge response instead of threat response. We listed a few suggestions on how to harness stress for richful life.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2023-11-10
Emotions, What Are They Good for? Navigating Culture Shock and Integration
Mastering emotional granularity provides your brain with more options. This helps with forecasting and speculating which results in more options ensuring flexibility in responses to adjustment challenges. Read on to discover how to put it in use in your everiday life.
by: Ivana Mrgan, 2023-09-04