A hoarding disorder is where a person collects an excessive amounts of items and stores them usually in their home. They can acquire vast amounts of items which may result in a collection of what has become an unmanageable amount of clutter. The items themselves may be of no monetary value but the person can… Read More What Is Hoarding Disorder?
What Is Happiness? Can we really define what happiness is? Many studies have tried to do just that. Some studies have defined happiness as having life satisfaction, positive and healthy coping resources, plus positive emotions. These studies have shown that happiness can lead to a wide range of beneficial outcomes. These include: financial success, supporting… Read More Dealing With Emotions: Coping With Happiness
Dealing with emotions appropriately can be hard. The key word here is appropriate. What do I mean by this? Well looking at how we feel can be difficult at times in our lives. We can be in denial about so much that is going on in our lives at that moment. We may not even… Read More Learning To Cope With Emotions: Shame & Guilt
Why Would I Connect Being Honest With Personal Finances? Well being honest with ourselves about our finances can in many ways help us learn a lot about ourselves. It can also show our ability to be honest about ourselves, with ourselves and with our significant other. In everything we do we have to be honest… Read More The Link Between Personal Finances & Honesty.
Everyone keeps talking about being grateful these days or showing gratitude. But when life is getting you down it can be very hard. Why should I be grateful you may ask? What’s it all about anyway? These are some very good questions. When the word gratitude is thrown about these days it’s as if it’s… Read More How Gratitude Can Boost Your Mental And Physical Health.
Journaling has huge benefits for both mental and physical health. Research has shown it acts not only as a stress management, anxiety and depression support tool but has been shown to benefit asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and other health conditions. It improves cognitive functioning and it strengthens the immune system, preventing a host of illnesses. Plus… Read More Journaling For Mental Health.
Turning off the negative voice in your head is beneficial. If you have been following the series on deleting negative thinking and negative people hopefully by now you have started to get some relief from my suggestions. Your mindfulness or meditation practice should be a basic tool in your self-care arsenal. This is also beneficial… Read More Creating More Positivity In Your Life.
Don’t tell me you don’t know what I mean by negative self-talk. I know you do. They can be very few of us who haven’t heard that voice in our head telling us something negative. For example “You’re no good”, “I’m too fat”, “I’m too thin”, “I never get anything right”, etc. So Why Do… Read More Deleting Negative Self Talk.
What is Panic Disorder? Panic attacks may arise as the result of the body’s natural “flight-freeze-fight” response kicking in. This response prepares our body to defend itself. Just like when our heart beats faster to pump blood to our muscles. Or when we hyperventilate to take in extra oxygen. Both of which give us the… Read More What is Panic Disorder?
What Is OCD? Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common form of anxiety disorder. With OCD a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviours (compulsions) that they feel the urge to repeat over and over. People who have OCD have uncontrollable thoughts that cause them anxiety. This urges them to check things repeatedly or perform… Read More What is OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
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