It’s been a difficult year for everyone. This year Christmas in particular may bring up so many strong emotions for us. Feeling painful emotions is hard. We simply don’t want to do it at times and we try to ignore them or dismiss them entirely. So it’s not surprising that we may have been trying… Read More How To Stay Present With Your Emotions.
What Is All Or Nothing Thinking? When we think with an all or nothing mindset we tend to see things in extremes. All or nothing thinking, or black and white thinking, is a form of cognitive distortion. When in this mindset we tend to think in either or terms e.g. “It is perfect”, or “No… Read More Is All Or Nothing Thinking Keeping You Stuck?
One of the biggest barriers to self-love and self-care is the comparison trap. We can all too easily fall into this trap especially as we spend so much of our time on social media these days. The comparison trap is all too contagious too as the people we interact with can help us get started… Read More 4 Ways To Deal With The Comparison Trap.
We all lead very busy lives. It is a fact that more often than not we don’t prioritize our own wellbeing. Between work, home, children, family drama, etc., it all takes up so much of our time. Plus anyone of these can cause us no end of stress. We work longer hours and push ourselves… Read More Recognizing Burnout.
Success can come in many shapes and sizes we just have a habit of not recognizing the smaller ones as such. For many of us we feel so busy that each day seems to be like a conveyor belt of things we need to get done. So we certainly don’t have time to think about… Read More Why It’s Important To Celebrate All Our Successes.
1 Make Sleep A Priority If you want to improve your sleep then you need to make it a priority for you. We need between 7 and 9 hours sleep each night once we become adults. Teens and children will need more sleep. (You can find a blog and podcast on sleep and helping children/teens… Read More 11 Tips To Help You Get A Better Night’s Sleep.
It can be very confusing, to say the least, when we are told we have to forgive others. Then we have to let them go. All this in order to move forward with our lives in a positive way. Our natural instinct is to want to get our own back. Or at the very least,… Read More Self-Forgiveness: How to do it?
How To Deal With Negative People. Dealing with negative people, especially adult family members, can be very trying. We all probably have friends and family members who: badger us, are overbearing, bullying, nagging, controlling, nit-picking, gossiping, frustrating and angry. During this time we can find ourselves feeling more stressed, anxious, depressed. We end up doing… Read More Dealing With Negative People.
When Did It All Go Wrong? We live in world that can create a feeling of being constantly on trial. About how we look and who, or what, we should be. The images and information posted in the media puts pressure on us to buy into some pretty impossible dreams. We can easily get caught… Read More Self-Care: Accepting Ourselves For Who We Truly Are.
What Are Self-Care Kits For Emergency Or Bad Days? We all have bad days & need a little help, love & support. Having a self-care emergency kits already set up before you start working on your habits (I talked about these in the last few weeks) is a good idea. It can be part of… Read More What Are Emergency Self-Care Kits?
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