What you think can affect your health to a greater degree than you might realize. So, let’s take a closer look at your inner dialogue. “Negativity can actually change your brain chemistry,” says Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD, author of “Habits of a Happy Brain.” She notes that when people default … Read More
Self-Care: What Exactly Does It Mean?
Ultimately, self-care is more than just taking one hour for yourself when you have a slow day at work. It’s the self-awareness of knowing what things in life are life-giving to you, and fiercely protecting time in your schedule for those things.
Daily Practices to Improve Your Mental Health
While mental health can sometimes consist of a long journey, there are things you can do daily to help positively impact your mental health.
Being Present With Grief
Grief is best served when witnessed by a loving presence. This is the ointment needed to soothe the wounds of a grieving person, according to renowned grief specialist, David Kessler. Just being present with grief means more than we know.
Spring Cleaning
As we approach spring and the yearly urge to clean up, clear out, and purge from winter’s dust and doldrums, it’s helpful to think about the benefits of a Spring cleaning!
Goal Setting for the Real World
What if, instead of holding ourselves to insanely high standards and seeing anything short of that as a failure, we started goal-setting in realistic ways?
What if we celebrated our small successes as valid, gave ourselves props for any forward motion, and cut ourselves slack for the moments we’re less than perfect? How might that impact our long term success?
Questions to Challenge Negative Self-Talk
Self-talk is often distorted, and therefore yields an unreliable message about ourselves and events that take place.
Don’t Quit Your Resolutions
You decided to make positive changes in the New Year and within a few days or even hours, you slip up and revert to your old way of doing things. This does not mean that you should give up on your resolutions.
Does Your Life Have Vision?
Our identity can very easily become wrapped up in the things we do.
And then there always comes a day when we find ourselves completely over-committed. We are totally exhausted and hating tasks that we willingly commit to.
What You Do With Your Time
Time has a way of slipping past doesn’t it? It happens to everyone at one time or another. Even the best planners can miss a beat occasionally.
It’s how you plan, think ahead, and do your best to stay attuned to what you do with your time that matters.
