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10 Ways to Ease COVID-19 Anxieties

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10 Ways to Ease COVID-19 Anxieties

We are always encountering stressful situations and have to determine the best ways to manage these in order to reduce anxiety and fear. As the Coronavirus pandemic continues, it is easy to feel fear and anxiety, amidst a global crisis. There is uncertainty around many things at present however this does not mean that you cannot use strategies to remain in the present and turn your thoughts away from those anxieties to other thoughts as well as ideas around what the future may hold at the end of this experience. There are strategies that can be used to remain in the present moment, pushing forward through anxiety.

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Quick Tips To Managing Obsessive Thoughts

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Quick Tips To Managing Obsessive Thoughts

Obsessive thoughts, whether good or bad, are exhausting. These tips can give your mind a break and shift your thoughts in a new direction. Distracting yourself and shifting your awareness away from obsessive thoughts can ease them.

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Ch-Ch-Ch Changes: How Big Life Transitions Impact Your Mental Health

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Ch-Ch-Ch Changes: How Big Life Transitions Impact Your Mental Health

Whether a marriage, new home, baby, first job, or beginning college, transitions are common and can lead to both positive and negative feelings. While transitions can be amazing, they can also cause feelings of uncertainty and instability. However as you focus on the future transitions can be smoother. Taking care of yourself and reaching out to supports can help you find your inner peace when managing any large transition.

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Mental Health Apps and Wellness

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Mental Health Apps and Wellness

With technology growing and changing constantly, it makes sense that tech has begun to tackle mental health. While we love therapy, how can mental health apps supplement your weekly therapeutic work? There are a variety of tools to use, at your disposal.

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Managing Stress (And Not Avoiding It)

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Managing Stress (And Not Avoiding It)

In the moment, it can feel much easier to avoid something that makes us stressed or uncomfortable, rather than tackling it head on. However, active coping that aims to address a problem head on, as a way to alleviate stress. Active coping can look like talking through problems to alleviate relationship stress, reframing a situation in order to view the positives of it, or budgeting to reduce financial stress amongst other ways of coping. No matter what active coping approach you take, the ongoing benefits lead to a happier and healthier sense of being.

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Letting Go: An Introduction to Radical Acceptance

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Letting Go: An Introduction to Radical Acceptance

Marsha Linehan highlights that pain cannot be avoided, it is part of life. Radical acceptance is a beneficial tool that leads us away from suffering to freedom and calmness, enabling us to make choices without negative emotions leading those choices.

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Three Mindfulness Exercises You Should Do Everyday

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Three Mindfulness Exercises You Should Do Everyday

These mindfulness tips can transform your life!

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Decrease Procrastination and Increase Action

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Decrease Procrastination and Increase Action

We often blame procrastination for not being able to get things done. However, our inability to complete things is often more of an underlying problem related to low self-esteem, fear of failure, difficulty setting goals, trouble creating a work-life balance, perfectionism or others. It’s important to uncover what the underlying concern is and address it in order to take action. Here are some tips to decrease procrastination and take action:

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An Easy Way to Determine Your Career Passion

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An Easy Way to Determine Your Career Passion

An easy way to really focus on your career passion is by giving things away. Read this blog for further elaboration!

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Cool the Heat: How to Reduce Holiday-Related Pressures

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Cool the Heat: How to Reduce Holiday-Related Pressures

The holidays are full of long hours of travel, running from location to location for social gatherings, schmoozing with relatives you rarely see, last-minute shopping and frantically searching for the final ingredient for your signature dish. There is a real pressure to perform during the holidays and create these “Hallmark” moments to remember forever.

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Positive Holiday Tips: Using Social Media for Inspiration Rather Than Frustration

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Positive Holiday Tips: Using Social Media for Inspiration Rather Than Frustration

Finding ideas for the holidays on social media is extremely useful! Instagram is full of thoughtful ideas and at the same time it is also a place where one can find themselves easily beat down about what you think you should have or do for the holidays. If you find yourself dreading the holidays, even as you scroll for recipes or a great centerpiece, you are not alone.

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Why It's Important to Take a Holiday During the Holidays

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Why It's Important to Take a Holiday During the Holidays

January is often a challenging month. We’re getting over the holiday rush, moving back into our regular routines, tightening up finances after splurging over the holidays, while also trying to stick to self-inflicted New Year’s goals. In addition, with the poor weather including snowstorms and dropper temperatures, it’s easy for our thoughts and hopes to turn to getting away to some place warm.

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Challenges of the Holiday Season: Common Struggles and How to Manage

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Challenges of the Holiday Season: Common Struggles and How to Manage

There are those experiencing marginalization/discrimination, racism, inequality, homelessness, mental illness, poverty and other challenges that continue through the holidays. Even if you don’t find yourself falling into one of these categories, everyone has their own stressors to contend with.

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Breakups Hurt: How to Heal Faster Amidst a Breakup

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Breakups Hurt: How to Heal Faster Amidst a Breakup

Moving past a breakup isn’t easy, however, it’s important to your health and well-being. There are also some ways that have been proven to support individuals in recovering from a breakup.