Setting boundaries can help you navigate your anxiety during the holiday season. For some, the winter holiday season is a time to reconnect with family members, enjoy each other’s company, and create quality memories for the future. For others, it’s a hard-to-navigate hellscape of conversational landmines and pitfalls, with a trigger around every corner. I’mContinue reading “How to Create Boundaries for the Holidays”
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Five Best Herbal Remedies for Anxiety
Deal with stress and anxiety the natural way. Stress is a normal part of life for all human beings, especially in this modern age of technology. Even if you manage to create a relatively stress-free existence in your home, you probably still have to deal with work issues, relationship pitfalls, and health concerns. Pile onContinue reading “Five Best Herbal Remedies for Anxiety”
Can Your Skin Reveal Whether or Not You are Stressed?
Believe it or not, your stress shows on your face. It’s a well known fact that going through major life stressors, like divorce, death, or relocation can wreak havoc on our stress levels, which ages us prematurely. Ask anyone who has gone through a major life upheaval; it shows up in their eyes and canContinue reading “Can Your Skin Reveal Whether or Not You are Stressed?”
Five Natural Ways to Manage Your Happiness Hormones
Much of the time our moods are regulated by our hormones. Have you ever just been in a bad mood for no reason? Like, everything in your life is going pretty well, but for some reason you can’t seem to muster up any joy about it? Hormones are various chemicals that your body releases. SomeContinue reading “Five Natural Ways to Manage Your Happiness Hormones”
10 All-Natural Ways to Alleviate Anxiety
How to fight your anxiety without self-medicating. There is no sugarcoating the fact that we live in very stressful times. Ever since 2020, it feels like we have been living in an alternate reality, or that we’ve been transported into the twilight zone. Previously, our lives were already full of the stresses of careers, relationships,Continue reading “10 All-Natural Ways to Alleviate Anxiety”
Five Surprising Triggers for Depression
Knowing what triggers your depression can help you manage your mental health. Depression is a common illness, affecting 280 million people worldwide. When you think of depression, you may think of people shuttered away in their bedrooms with the curtains drawn, unable to get out of bed. While this is one form of depression, thereContinue reading “Five Surprising Triggers for Depression”
Five Ways to Support Your Mental Energy Levels
Mental energy affects everything we do in life. Have you ever gotten to work, and realized that it was taking every ounce of mental energy you had to be present? If you work a full-time job, I’m going to assume the answer is yes. Although lately there has been more of a push in ourContinue reading “Five Ways to Support Your Mental Energy Levels”
Is Chronic Stress Negatively Impacting Your Health?
Chronic stress can affect your overall physical health if left untreated. Stress is not always a bad thing. In certain circumstances, stress can help you be more productive and meet important deadlines. In small amounts, stress can actually be a helpful tool to keep you on track, or motivate you to achieve something. Stress becomesContinue reading “Is Chronic Stress Negatively Impacting Your Health?”
How to Treat Seasonal Affective Disorder
Everyone gets SAD once in a while. It’s that time of year again. The time when winter has been dragging on for a few months and we all get a little stir crazy. While this winter has been relatively mild, especially compared to the pandemic last winter, many people are still feeling the onset ofContinue reading “How to Treat Seasonal Affective Disorder”
How to Jump Back Into a Sport After an Injury
Getting back into a sport after an injury can be a huge mental hurdle. Any athlete will tell you that injuries are almost impossible to prevent. If you are very into sports, chances are at one point or another you will get an injury, from something as small as a sprained ankle to something moreContinue reading “How to Jump Back Into a Sport After an Injury”