What You Need to Know about the Physical Effects of Anxiety
Anxiety affects your body as well as your mind. In addition to worrying and feeling nervous, you may experience changes in your immune function, circulatory system, and other areas. Anxiety may also be caused by physical conditions and may increase your risk for certain disorders. It’s an important issue, because anxiety is the most common […]
A Parent’s Guide to Empowering Your Child Against Bullying
Bullying can damage a child’s self-esteem and lead to other mental and physical challenges. If your child is being bullied, it’s important to address it before the bullying escalates. You can empower your children to face bullies and deal with them effectively! Use these strategies to arm your kids with powerful techniques against bullies: Set […]
Add Joy to Your Life by Inventing Your Own Holidays
We have many “official” holidays throughout the year to honor important people and events. The holidays provide a great opportunity to celebrate, while spending quality time with loved ones. But why not go a step further? Create your own holidays to transform ordinary days into special ones that could boost your health, well-being, relationships, and […]
A Sober Living Guide For The Holidays
The winter holidays are supposed to be a magical time of year. However, they can pose extra challenges if you’re trying to live sober. You may look forward to decorating the tree and baking sugar cookies. Then, you remember crowded shopping malls and family dinners with distant relatives asking you about your childbearing plans. You […]
How Do you respond to Stress? Discover Why it Matters so much
How you deal with stress matters. Unless you were born with a special gift for managing stress intelligently and effectively, this is one of the skills worth your time to develop. Your response to stress can predict the level of success you enjoy in your life. How you deal with stress also affects your health. […]
How to Reduce Your Holiday Stress
As the holiday season approaches, your stress level will probably rise. In addition to your typical schedule of work, home and kids, you’ve got more shopping to do, menus to plan, and food to prepare. The good news is, even with all the extra activities and preparations, you can still reduce your holiday stress. Here […]
Express Your Gratitude to Improve Your Health
Emotions can bottle up inside you, but you don’t have to let them. You can master your thoughts, feelings, and emotions and learn to let them out in positive ways, so they don’t cause you stress and harm. One of the best ways to improve your health and handle your emotions is by expressing your […]
How Fit Are You In Your Relationship?
Physical fitness is the key to the success of famous athletes. Their physical fitness begins with a desire to be not only better than the next athlete, but to also be the best at what they do. This mindset enables them to prepare their mind as well as their bodies for success. Being mentally ready […]
Top 10 Ways to Overcome Fear and Self-Doubt
Fear and self-doubt can be crippling. It’s not easy to enjoy your life or to achieve great things when you’re afraid or doubt your capabilities. Many people stay away from situations that trigger these mental states, but that’s a severely limited way to approach life. Most of the best things in life lie on the […]
Why It’s So Important To Be Empathetic
Merriam-Webster defines empathy as: “The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.” It might seem like empathy is something that you do for […]