While mental health can sometimes consist of a long journey, there are things you can do daily to help positively impact your mental health.
For The Moments When Life Disappoints
Life is definitely not fair. This is a well-known fact. You probably heard an adult tell you this when you were a kid. Things very often do not turn out the way we planned or hoped. Often times, we must develop an alternate plan or goals for ourselves.
Five Signs of Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence as a psychological theory was originally developed by Peter Salovey and John Mayer. They described it as “the ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth,” (Mayer & Salovey, 1997).
10 Practical Steps to Improve Mental Health Daily
While mental health can sometimes consist of a long journey, there are things you can do daily to help positively impact your mental health.
Self-Improvement and Self-Acceptance: Why We Need Both
Self-acceptance is a tension to manage, and we won’t get it right all of the time but it is a balance worthy of pursuit.
What Star Trek Can Teach You About Your Psyche
In this analogy of the parts of the psyche, Kirk represents The Self, Spock represents logic, and Dr. McCoy represents emotions.
What happens when you flip your lid?
What happens in your brain when you flip your lid? When powerful emotions take over, you lose the ability to reason and respond effectively.
Emotional Regulation for Kids
Next time you or your child is feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or dysregulated, try the STOP technique and notice how it makes you feel.
What is causing your anger?
When these emotions get compounded over time, it makes it challenging to become aware of what is causing anger.
3 Steps Towards Creating Space for your Emotions
So, how do we begin to let ourselves slowly open up and share with others the emotions that have been hidden for so long?
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