Are you feeling stressed? Here is a baker’s dozen of ways to dial down your anxieties and worries so you can start enjoying life again! Up your meditation practice: Try 10 minutes twice a day. Or 20 minutes twice a day if you can make time. Look for guided meditations onInsight Timeror the free Balanced Mind with Julie… Continue reading Stressed? Don’t Beat Yourself Up. Try These Tips Instead:
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We See Loved Ones – and Ourselves – through Rose-Colored Glasses
Researchers say that people have an “optimism bias” – meaning that we see our own lives, and the lives of those we care about, through rose-colored glasses. A study from from City University of London, University of Oxford and Yale found that people readily changed their beliefs about a person they like when receiving good… Continue reading We See Loved Ones – and Ourselves – through Rose-Colored Glasses
Put the News on Snooze: Taking a Break is Healthy
Overloaded on bad news? You’re not alone. When we tune in to see what’s going on all we see is suffering from natural disasters, shootings, terror attacks, reports about economic uncertainty and a divided political climate, plus celebrity deaths and just mean people being mean. We hear about a tragedy or disaster and we become… Continue reading Put the News on Snooze: Taking a Break is Healthy
Trauma Nation
We don’t have to look far to notice the amount of negativity that surrounds us on a daily and consistent basis. Any one of us over the age of ten can recount the events of September 11, 2001, or any host of traumatic events that have taken place since that time. It seems our country… Continue reading Trauma Nation