Stress & Anxiety
5 Easy Ways I Beat My Anxiety Every Day
I have struggled with anxiety since childhood. It took me a long time to recognize it and to learn strategies to help me cope. These are five simple ways I manage my stress and anxiety daily.
A Snowy Day Meditation Exercise ❄️
If you're feeling stir-crazy or stressed during winter, this set of meditation exercises can help you unwind. The written guide focuses on relaxation and forgiveness.
Dealing With People Who Invalidate Us
The damaging effects of people who ignore or invalidate our emotional pain, dreams, accomplishments, and strategies to deal with them.
Heal Past Traumas: Working With Our Inner Child
We must embrace our inner child. Normally, our inner child will have brilliant suggestions to assist us in approaching tough situations with an open mind, open heart, and open soul. This will make us feel less worried and nervous, and it will also encourage us to solve many problems.
6 Reasons Why You Feel Undeserving of Your Success
Feeling undeserving of your own success can be detrimental to your progress. It's important to know why you feel undeserving, and any of these six reasons might just be the reason.
How Gardening Improves Your Mental Health
Gardening has been shown to be very beneficial to mental health and well-being.
Improve Your Mental Health by Writing
It might not be a surprise for some that writing helps improve one's mental health. It doesn't matter what it is, people should write something every day.
The New Year Blahs
For me, the new year is a time when the heightened energy of creation conflicts with an existential dread. I decided to write this in case it could help someone else feeling the same.
Migraine Madness
Do you suffer from light sensitive migraines? New research suggests it could be due to blue light exposure.
How Can Meditation Help With Stress and Attention?
Who wouldn't want more tools to help us handle the stress of our lives? Well, science has an answer that relies only on you...
How to Deal With Normal, Everyday Frustrations
We all have daily frustrations with have to deal with. But just how do we deal with those frustrations? There is no one size fits all answer. This article covers the different ways you can cope with your daily frustrations.
Anxiety and the Dangers of Stress Hormones to Our Health
I write about the damaging effects of anxiety and stress hormones on our health. I explain possible risks to long term health as a result of anxiety. I also touch on my personal experience of anxiety.
Using a Komuso Shift Pendant for Anxiety
This quarantine has me buying random things off Facebook ads. I bought a Komuso Shift, which is like a glorified dog whistle that's worth it's weight in stainless steel.
7 Productive Ways to De-Stress At Home
Don't let stress keep you down. Try these 7 ideas to stay healthy, active, and productive at home.
Things to Do When You're Stressed and Living Alone
Sometimes being stuck inside can be boring and lonely. This can be even worse if you live alone. Here are some fun stress-relievers to do when you live alone and are stuck inside!
Why People Refuse to Accept Good Advice
It's helpful to understand why some people don't take advice and use it to their advantage. Let’s review this matter.
4 Must-Have Products for Homebodies to Stay Well and Have Fun
Whether you're voluntarily staying in (hello, fellow introverts), you work at home, or you're stuck indoors, here are some products to help you break the monotony.
Get out of Your Bed: 8 Ways to Tell Depression Who Is Boss
It’s another day, but like most days, you don’t feel like facing it. And in reality, it’s been a long time since you’ve been able to wake up with a smile on your face.
My Experience and Tips From Working With the Emotion Codes to Release Trapped Energy
After working with Dr. Nelson's Emotion Codes, I found what worked best for me, ways to tinker with the process, and how to utilize it to make my life easier and more fulfilling.
5 Helpful Tips for High-Strung Introverts
These days, everyone risks high levels of stress no matter your personality type. However, introverts must learn to take care of themselves – especially those with a high-strung nature.
5 Tips for Dealing With Stress and Overwhelm
These 5 tips are just some of the things we can do to help us deal with overwhelm and chronic stress. Some stress is good for us, it keeps us alert and focused, but when we’re feeling overwhelmed and can’t switch off we need to take action to help ourselves.
3 Ways I Deal With My PTSD
Living with a PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) can be daunting at first, however, as years go by, you feel the need to pry past memories out of your head. The side effects of PTSD are real: Sleepless nights, haunting images, flashbacks, random voices; and they are difficult to erase.
10 Surprising Exercises to Improve Mindfulness
Mindfulness can be intimidating if you're just starting off. Meditation isn't your only option. Here are 10 unique mindfulness exercises that will make your journey easier.
10 Ways I Keep Stress and Anxiety at Bay
I have struggled with stress and anxiety since childhood. Growing up, I didn’t know there were strategies I could learn to help me cope. As an adult, practicing healthy ways to manage and reduce my stress has become a priority.
Inner Peace Through Simplicity
Attaining inner peace through simplicity is easier than it may seem. And when we are able to create simplicity in our lives we also find our own source of contentment. Joyful living follows as a result.
Easy Ways to Experience Hygge All Year Round
The Danes are considered the happiest people on earth and Hygge might be why. Here are some ways you can experience the Danish art of Hygge all year round for under $10!
How to Turn Your Stress Into Energy and Enthusiasm
Stress is a serious problem that can impact your quality of life, your performance, and your relationships. In this article, I show you how you can turn your stress into energy and enthusiasm by reversing 7 common mistakes that make you feel stressed-out, over-worked and run-down.
How to Boost Your Confidence When You Have Anxiety
Feeling bad about yourself and dealing with anxiety lately? Improving your self-esteem and anxiety go hand in hand. Here's how I've boosted my confidence while handling my generalized anxiety disorder.
What Is Relational Aikido?
Relational Aikido (RA) is a non-violent, win-win method of coping with relationship attack. Specific skill sets must be learned and practiced, much like a martial art.
9 Natural Tips for How to Help Someone With Depression
This article gives advice on how to help someone with depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). People who are suffering from clinical depression or more serious symptoms should consult a physician for further assistance.
Loneliness: It Just Happens
Loneliness is neither good nor bad. Sometimes, it's just there.
How to Overcome Struggles: 7 Valuable Recommendations
This article is meant to uplift those who may be having a difficult time overcoming struggles in their own lives. I want my readers to understand that hard times do not last forever and that everything will be okay—eventually.
Keeping Yourself Sane During the Holidays
The winter holidays can be a major cause of stress and stress-related illnesses, including mental illness. This article discusses coping strategies this author has learned in her long-time attendance in a stress-reduction group; the quotations used come from that group.
Transform Your Bathroom Into a Spa Retreat
Give your bathroom the ultimate spa makeover with relaxing scents, luxurious details and calming colors to create a personal spa retreat right at home.
12 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Life
Practical, easy things people can do that will help them to see their issues clearly so that they can make productive decisions that will help them to live more productive, happy lives.
6 Ways to Deal With Homesickness
Whether you've just started college or are moving to another country, homesickness can strike at any time. Sometimes having familiar food can help you feel better. Other times, coping with loneliness requires different strategies.
Handling Stress Around the Holidays
Unfortunately, the holidays typically come with a great deal of stress from having to buy gifts to cooking for everyone, and even having to face Aunt Sue again. Hopefully these tips will take the edge off and give you a way to avoid some of the stress you have coming.
Working Through Grief Emotionally, Physically and Spiritually
The road of life is paved with many sorrows. The loss of a loved one through death or divorce is among the most painful experiences humans face. Broken relationships, failed businesses and other unfortunate events can also cripple joy. Fortunately, there is help for these difficult journeys.
7 Relaxing Things to Do Before the School Year Starts
This article is intended to provide readers with 7 ways to relax before the stress of the school year sets in.
Grief Is Not Always Because of a Death, but It Is Always Because of a Loss
People grieve things other than the death of a family member or friend. Every loss deserves to be grieved even though the death of a person is at the top of the list.
How to Manage and Cope With Generalized Anxiety Disorder
How to manage and overcome Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). GAD is a very common psychiatric disorder. Constant feelings of dread and worry are typical. In this article, I provide insights as to how a person might overcome this difficult disorder by lessening its impact on their life.
Overcoming Social Anxiety Without Medications
Wondering how to deal with social anxiety at school, work and hanging out with friends and family? Here's six tips for coping.
5 Tips to Instantly Feel Better When You're Fed Up
When you've reached your breaking point, these quick tips will have you instantly feeling better and ready to tackle the day!
9 Steps to Building Emotional Resilience
How do you bounce back from challenging times? Start with building your emotional resilience by learning skills that will help you to adapt and grow in adversity.
Try These Mental Health Apps to Improve Your Quality of Life
Research suggests that mental health apps, such as the ones listed here, can help you with many emotional difficulties, improve your outlook and re-establish a more positive quality of life.
8 Ways to Beat the Winter Blues
Feeling that late-winter slump? I have some tips to keep yourself busy and stay positive for the remaining cold months.
6 Ways Crafts Can Help With Managing Depression
Crafts can be very therapeutic to do and can help to escape the dark pit that depression keeps us in, even if it's just for a little while.
Why Do Adults Cry?
We know babies cry from the time they enter the world. They cry because they are hungry, thirsty, wet or sleepy. Adults cry for different reasons. So, why do adults cry?
Fighting Winter Funk
The holidays are over (you recall that blur between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day don't you?), winter is still going strong and you feel trapped inside. How can you fix the winter funk?
How Journaling Can Help Your Mental Health
There are many benefits to journaling, especially for those suffering from mental illness and here are some of the main reasons you should journal.