Studies have shown that walking can be great for sleep quality, stress reduction, anxiety and depression. It can be very restful!
Where to Start with Self-Care
Self-care is significant to your mental health, but you may not know where to start. Here are some ideas and questions to get you started.
Vacation and Your Mental Health
Vacations help to alleviate stress. When someone is under chronic stress, it begins to take a toll his or her physical and mental health. Taking a vacation has the ability to break the cycle of chronic stress.
Self-Care vs Zoning Out
What is the difference between self-care and zoning out? One leaves us feeling energized and refreshed. The other…not so much.
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.
A Mindset of Successful Grieving
It is not a question of whether we will experience loss and pain; it is a question of when. Although grief is unavoidable, it does provide options. We can choose to face mourning with the mindset of grieving successfully.
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?
Goals for Relationships
Relationships so often go malnourished due to everyday stressors. Here are some relationship goals for you & your partner to consider.
Five Things to Help Increase Your Willpower
Willpower helps us live consistent with our values and long-term goals, we are typically more content and happy. Learning to recognize your own signs when you are stressed is one of the most important steps in improving your willpower.
Questions to Challenge Negative Self-Talk
Self-talk is often distorted, and therefore yields an unreliable message about ourselves and events that take place.
