Tag: wellness
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5 Mentally Healthy Ways to Spend Valentine’s Day if You’re Single
Single, happy and thriving? Going through a break-up? Trying to find the right person? In dating limbo and not sure where you stand with someone? Ditch the pressure to couple up on February 14th and try doing one of these activities instead. Start a new journal, book or podcast Holidays, especially one focused on romantic…
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How to Stop Black-and-White Thinking
One of the most common symptoms people with anxiety or OCD experience is black-and-white thinking. But what is it, exactly? How can we identify it? Why do we do it? And, most importantly, how can we stop? Let’s break it down. What is black-and-white thinking? Black-and-white thinking is the tendency to view all situations in…
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7 Tips for Combating Seasonal Depression During a Pandemic
Whether it’s the colder/darker months, a bit of the post-holiday blues, a new variant of COVID-19 upon us (or honestly a little bit of all of the above), it’s understandable if your mood, energy and motivation levels are taking a hit right now. With so much uncertainty ahead and not much (literal) light at the…
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8 Self-Care Tips to Strengthen Your Mental & Emotional Health
There’s all this talk of “self-care” in the mental health community these days, but what does it actually consist of and look like and why is it so important? For starters, the emphasis on self-care has become increasingly present as a result of many people neglecting themselves due to the glorification of being busy and…
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The 5 Fundamental Aspects of Self-Love & How to Actively Practice Each One
Self-love is a concept we hear a lot nowadays, but what does it really mean? What does it mean to ‘love yourself’ or to practice self-love? And why is it important? I asked you to tell me what self-love means to you & here are some of your responses: ———————————– “Fully accepting and being comfortable with…
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How, When & Why to Be More Assertive
Be more assertive: seems like a simple enough concept, right? But how do we do it without being aggressive or pushy? What happens if someone takes our assertiveness the wrong way? What if it changes our relationships? What if it makes us uncomfortable?And WHY is it so difficult for us to be direct, say no,…
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Why We Should Be in More Bad Moods
Ever feel like you can’t just ‘get over it’? Can’t snap out of your bad mood? Can’t force a smile? Can’t pretend everything’s fine? Good. That means you’re human. Society has made us believe that positive emotions are good and negative emotions are bad, thus making us feel even worse when we experience even a…
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Finding Time for Self-Care in a Busy Schedule
Work, chores, errands, and a never-ending to-do list – sometimes it feels impossible to do it all. We run ourselves into the ground while trying to and rarely stop to take a breath. We pile things onto our plate when we have no room left on it because we feel like we can’t say no. We have…