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Four Ways to Use Technology to Help Build Connections with Others and Ourselves
You are probably familiar with how technology is hurting our physical and mental health but the topic around how technology can support our well-being is less talked about.
A Guide to Self-Care When You Are Feeling Unmotivated
As Iāve recently mentioned, it can be tough to get a grip on life. And taking care of our mental health can be a challenge in and of itself. When Iām going through low periods, I donāt feel motivated to do my meditation practice. I know it would help me but I canāt get myself to do it. I feel too tired, too checked out.
How to Take Care of Your Mental Health
Iāve been having a really tough time getting a grasp on my life lately. Things seem to be moving too quickly and I canāt find enough energy to keep up with it all.
How Self-Expression Through Art Benefits Mental Health
Like we mentioned in a previous blog that shared 5 Ways the Performing Arts Benefit Mental Health, the performing arts have been scientifically proven to help kids (and adults) overcome anxiety, depression, and offer emotional release.
How to Address Your Inner Critic with Self-Compassion and Mindfulness
I donāt know about you, but I still tend to beat myself up pretty hard for the mistakes that I make. Iām definitely better than I used to be. My self-compassion practice is working, thatās for sure.
How to Give Feedback to Co-Workers
I imagine that in most workplace environments, we primarily encounter two types of scenarios: our co-worker did something that is clearly against the rules OR they did something that you feel you have a better way of doing.
How to Get Your Kids to Talk to You
To have meaningful relationships, we need to have meaningful conversations. So pick a few questions you like to ask after school, at dinner, or while hanging out and kickstart meaningful conversation and grow deeper connections.
Dealing with Stressful Times
If youāve recently reached out to someone for support and received a response along the veins of the second post above, first acknowledge the fact that you were brave to reach out, go you! You took a risk and it just didnāt pay off this time. That is okay.
How to Build Emotional Intelligence
In todayās society it can be a challenge to slow down. With this challenge comes disconnection from our feelings. Sometimes days, weeks, even months go by without us asking ourselves, āwhat am I feeling?ā, āwhy am I reacting this way?ā or āwhatās going on here?ā.
How to Stay Calm when Busy
Whenever a new school year starts, or a new job starts, or a major event occurs in my life, I get wrapped up in performing the juggling act and I sideline things āthat can wait.ā Like... my meditation practice.
How Pollution Impacts our Mental Health
Itās been known for quite some time that polluted air leads to heart and lung problems, and now we are becoming aware that air pollution also has a negative effect on our brains.
Mental Health Disorders and Yoga
This study aims to determine if yoga is beneficial as a treatment for individuals with mental health disorders. This research explores different studies that have been done involving yoga with anxiety, depression, PTSD and schizophrenia.
How to Overcome Negative Thoughts
Remember the last time you couldnāt get away from a storm of negative thoughts? The time when your brain was stuck in the same dark place, refusing to budge and move on to a different topic?
How to Build Self-Confidence
āWhat do I want?ā
This was the question that I landed on after a long-winded (and not fully formed) internal dialogue I had with myself about how life is unfair, how living intentionally is one way of trying to even that out, and how to live intentionally you need awareness about yourself, your situation, your needs, your wants.
How to Raise an Emotionally Healthy Child
Just like adults, kids are drawn to mindfulness. Once they experience it, they know it feels good in their brains and bodies without reading the scientific evidence behind these practices.
How do you define love?
If I were to ask you - what does it mean to have hope, to belong, to have faith - what would you say? Some of us might have answers, and others might struggle to put these definitions into words.
How to Build Your Community
Tips for Creating a Supportive Community of Peers
In the age of social media, it can be easy to forget how restorative, inspiring, and encouraging it can be to meet with people face to face.
Our Favorite Non Self-Help Books for Wellness
Summer is in full swing and summer reading lists are popping up everywhere! Including on this blogš. But I didnāt want to create another oversaturated list of self-help books because (1) those lists are widely available and (2) I believe that the phrase ātoo much of a good thingā applies when it comes to reading too many self-help books.
What is Imposter Syndrome and Is it Affecting Me?
With each step towards the cave entrance, I thought about how that one time my vertigo was triggered by darkness, how being in a small space can on rare occasions make me feel somewhat claustrophobic.
How to Get What You Want
Even though discovering areas where you are not in alignment is part of gaining more self-awareness, it still takes me by surprise when I learn a new place of misalignment in my life.