Have You Tried Meditation And Didn’t Think It Was Helpful? Regroup And Consider Giving It Another Chance - A Personal Story.
Meditation is not magical solution to all of life’s problems or difficult emotions, but it can make a significant difference for many. If you did not have success the first time, it might be worth trying again. Here’s my personal story of giving it another chance.
Using Technology in Bed? How This Can Negatively Impact Your Sleep and Anxiety.
Do you find yourself regularly scrolling on your phone in bed? Technology use before bedtime and first thing in the morning significantly impacts the quality of our sleep. This can also influence our mood including depression and anxiety. Here are some tips to help break this habit and improve your sleep.
Anxiety Getting In the Way of a Good Night’s Sleep? Try These Scientifically Backed Tips For Healthier Sleep Tonight!
Many people suffering from anxiety and stress also find it difficult to fall or stay asleep. If you are struggling to get a good night’s sleep, try these five scientifically backed tips for healthier sleep today.
Feeling Overwhelmed? These Grounding Exercises May Help You Regain Calm.
Grounding techniques are a common practice that helps you redirect to the present and help focus away from anxious emotions. Grounding techniques help us focus, using our senses, including site, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. By using one or a combination of these senses, it helps us return to the present moment and soothe our anxious feelings. Read more for different types of grounding techniques and suggestions to help alleviate anxiety.
Facing Your Fears: Exposure Therapy For Anxiety.
Are there situations that make you extremely nervous or anxious? Do you wish you could feel better in those situations rather than avoid them? One promising technique is called exposure therapy. This provides a research-based way to reduce anxiety or fear about various events, situations, or objects. Read on for a step-by-step process to conducting exposure therapy.
How to Manage Anxiety on a Daily Basis Before It Manages You
Anxiety is an emotion all humans feel from time to time. But what do we do when it becomes overwhelming or starting to interfere with our lives? Learn more about how anxiety impacts our bodies and lives and steps we can take to help manage it.
Feeling Anxious? Try These Three Breathing Exercises To Regain Calm And Get Centered Again.
Feeling anxious or overwhelmed? Struggling to calm down? We all face this from time to time, and a quick immediate way to get relief is to control our breathing. Here are three breathing techniques to try yourself.
Why Exercise Should Be Part of Any Plan to Overcome Anxiety and Depression
Curious if exercise can help alleviate your depression or anxiety? Not sure how much exercise or what type of exercise is the effective dose? This post summarizes the research and gives you clear guidance on why this is important, and how to implement.
Mental Filtering – How it Negatively Impacts our Life and what to do about it.
Do you ever find yourself only focusing on the negative during the week? It’s common for us to have “a bad day” when things just don’t seem to go our way. Life happens. But when this becomes a consistent pattern, you should become a bit more concerned and might be experiencing a cognitive distortion called mental filtering.
Surprisingly healthy and unhealthy ways perfectionists cope with stress and anxiety
One question that we hear often is how different types of perfectionists cope with stress and anxiety in their lives. There has been a lot of research conducted on this already, so let us take a look at some of the different coping strategies utilized.