Balancing Life in a World of Chaos
With back to school coming up for many people, sometimes it can feel as if the chaos of life comes full-force to hit you in the face. How do you balance it all? How do you make time for friends and family when your to-do list is piling up to the ceiling? Balance is important because it works to eliminate chaos, allows us to have more peace, stronger connections with people, and overall holistic health. It is difficult to find balance, but there are simple ways to make juggling everything easier.
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Weathering the Storm of Fear and Anxiety
In life, the hope is to overcome hardship so that we can experience peace and calm after a storm, and come away from that storm having learned something new, and grown as an individual. I think it is important to note, that we will without a doubt experience storms and hardship in our lives. We can’t get around it, we have to go through it, and the beauty in each of our stories, is that if we weather the storm with truth and hope, we will experience the peace, and overcome the hardship.
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Stress and Anxiety: A Difference of Perception
Have you ever considered that stress and anxiety are two different things? Stress overwhelms one’s ability to cope with external, present circumstances, while anxiety is often future focused and internally experienced. Read more how you can use stress in a positive way, and impact how you manage anxiety in your life.
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Screen Time: The Reward or Consequence
Cell phone use is a major factor in raising our teens. Do you use screen time as a reward or consequence for behavior?
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Experiential Therapy
Experiential therapies access a different part of our psychological experience to allow for deep and meaningful processing. They allow for active experiencing which leads to different ways of processing your trauma, memories, difficulties, hurts, and more.
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The Power of Self-Talk
What happens in our brains on a thought level daily largely goes underneath our conscious awareness. Some of this is simple like deciding what to eat for lunch; however, some of it comes in the form of “self-talk,” the way we speak and respond to ourselves throughout the day. Sometimes this self-talk can have negative effects on our daily lives, which is why its important to bring awareness to it.
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How to Develop Friends Faster and Become Influential
Even though Dale Carnegie’s book How to Win Friends and Influence People was written long ago, its concepts are applicable even today. Learning how to make friends and be influential is important for our personal and professional development.
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4 Books for Fostering Self-Compassion
Curious how to cultivate more self-compassion in your life? Wondering even what self-compassion is? The concept is alluring, but we can sometimes get caught in the practice itself. Learn about resources you can use today in order to learn more about self-compassion and how you can implement more of it in your life.
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Have you heard the saying, “Happiness is from happenings?” This paints a negative view of happiness and its role in our lives. Today, we’re presenting a different, more liberating and purposeful view of happiness and what it can mean for you today.
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Power of Pause
Taking a pause in our go-go-go world is often a difficult task. But it doesn’t have to be! Read more on how you can incorporate moments of pause today in your life.
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Choosing the Right Path in 2019
The pressure of resolutions and making the most of the year is at as the calendar flips over another 365 days. What if you went into 2019 with a different perspective on “goal setting” and making the most of your time? One that took the pressure off and allowed you to make a meaningful year?
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Tips for Effective Decision Making
For some of us, decision making can bring us to pause. Whether out of fear or uncertainty, we hesitate, which ultimately doesn’t propel us towards the vibrant life we crave. Here are some useful tips to help sift through the uncertainty, manage fears, and make a decision.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy: What is it?
When our connections are bogged down by a negative pattern, we find it difficult to connect in relationship and get our needs met. Emotionally Focused Therapy helps couples stop the negative cycle and try something new.
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How to Handle Relationship Conflict (Holiday Version)
The holidays can pose some unique opportunities for relational conflict and disconnection. Often, just a few simple changes can make a big difference in thriving in your relationships during the holiday season!
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Quick tips to surviving (and enjoying) the Holidays
The holidays can be rought to navigate for some of us. Making sure to attend to yourself is one of the many important things we discuss in this post about survining (and enjoying!) the holiday season.
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The Brain Outdoors
Have you ever noticed a change in your mood or health after a day spent outside? This is no coincidence. Being outside in natura has significant impact on our wellbeing, and we explain why.
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How ACT Can Help You Live a Vibrant Life
What do you believe holds you back from a full and vibrant life? Do you find that sometimes you just don’t know? Your experience is common and is one of the main reasons why we feel stuck from moving forward: we don’t realize what is going on behind the curtain.
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Social Media and Teens: How its Affecting Our Youth
Social media affects us all in both positive and negative ways. Recent trends in social media use have caused concern, however, and here we list some ways you can help.
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Research Based Study Tips
You know the feeling that I am talking about. Right before an exam begins. Your palms are sweaty and you wonder if you are prepared or not.
Most of us have felt that anxiety and some of us will continue to take exams late into our adult lives. I have felt this way too and wanted some answers for how to best prepare and reduce my own test anxiety. So I looked for the most sound, evidence-based tips to increase your study productivity and overall outcome.
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The Holiday Season: Creating Mindful Routines to Prevent Burn Out
The holidays can be a time that feels stressful, overwhelming, and can often lead to feeling burnt out. Good news is, it doesn’t have to be this way! Read more on what practices you can cultivate to have a more enjoyable holiday season.
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