Emotional Health
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Learn Quick and Easy Ways to Reduce Stress This New Year
Since humanity has succeeded in outsmarting panthers and aliens have (as far as we can tell) not discovered us yet, stress is still the biggest threat to our survival. The dangers of stressing out all the time are too many to list: it wrecks our heart, impairs our nervous system, damages our concent...
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The Teeth-Falling-Out Dream: What Does It Mean?
Experiencing physical trauma in a dream can be very unsettling, to say the least. And sleep disturbances don’t just affect your sleep quality, they can also leave you feeling a little freaked out.In fact, many of us instinctively check our body for damage when we wake up after one of these unsettlin...
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What is Shadow Work And What Is The Benefit of It?
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” — CARL JUNGHave you ever blurted out a comment that takes you by surprise? Or felt suddenly angry towards a person or situation while at the same time unsure of why you felt that way? According to psychol...
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Are You Truly Happy? 3 Revealing Questions To Ask Yourself
Happiness is like a dream vacation. You don't always know where it is or how to get there, but you'll know it when you do.Except, unlike vacations, there are no fast and easy websites to tell you what makes you happy. The thing is, happiness isn't pulled out of a hat. You draw it from various aspect...
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Here's How You Know Love Is All Around You, Even When It Doesn't Feel like It
Growing up as the younger sibling in a small household in India, Ajit Nawalkha felt unloved and unappreciated. “Why am I hated so much?” little Ajit would ask himself, sobbing into his pillow. Constant fighting with his older brother and not feeling he received the same recognition that his brother ...
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The Universal Signs You Have Burnout - And How to Overcome It
Years ago, I was overloaded with work during an already heavy holiday season. Then I found out I was going to be a father and every ounce of my free time vanished into a fiery pit of stress and anxiety.It was an exciting time but also a time where I pushed my body and mind to its breaking point on a...
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7 Subtle Signs You May Actually Be Addicted to Stress
Feeling like you never have enough time for fun or chores, but still willingly take on extra errands? Is your work checklist seemingly never-ending, yet you still volunteer to take on extra tasks? Are you constantly pushing social occasions for longer office hours without management asking for overt...
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Why Your Negative Emotions Are Not Problems Needing to Be Solved
Are you familiar with the following scenario? You experience an upsurge of unpleasant emotion, and do everything in your power to bury it. Browse the Internet. Embrace Netflix’s autoplay. Manically channel energy into work. Endlessly scroll Twitter. But whatever you do, an emotional hum remains in t...
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5 Ways Your Pet is Your Secret Weapon for Health and Happiness
Having a pet can be a game-changing, life-altering way to shift your habits and perceptions in a positive direction and put your mental and physical health first. Cats and dogs, in particular, are full-on family and friends to many of us. The fact that they’re ridiculously adorable to look at is a h...
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The 5 Practical Steps To Create A Truly Effective Self-Care Routine
If you’re looking to reduce stress, ease anxiety, form healthy habits, manage illness, or boost your overall well-being, self-care is essential. Although self-care has become a lifestyle trend (with an industry worth $11 billion), behind the profit and the hype is an invaluable practice with huge be...
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What is Social Anxiety Disorder? Signs and Solutions
Feeling anxious is a necessary, although uncomfortable, part of being alive. When you feel symptoms of anxiety, it’s your brain’s natural response to stressful, scary, or threatening people, places, and things. This accurately named stress response (which includes an adrenaline rush) can help us whe...
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Psychological Trauma: Symptoms, Signs, and Life Impact
Our experiences mold us into the people that we are, and when we go through something traumatic, we can be impacted for the rest of our lives. And this impact is not limited to experiencing physical symptoms, but psychological symptoms as well. You may have found yourself asking why you feel trigger...
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Bouncing Back from Burnout: A Comprehensive Guide
How often do you make offhand comments about being burned out from, well…life in general? If stress seems never-ending and you’re compounded by feelings of boredom, chances are you’re experiencing burn out. Burnout is a stress condition that zaps all your energy, affects everyday tasks, can hurt oth...
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Why Am I So Emotional? The Real Reason May Inspire a Huge Change
Emotions are the foundation of the human experience. You can’t get through life without them, and you can’t selectively numb unpleasant emotions or amplify pleasant emotions. The full spectrum, from fear to sadness, to happiness and joy, add color to life. At the same time, part of maturing as an ad...
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What 10 of the World's Most Successful People Do to Manage Stress
We all know the constant bearing down of stress. At first, it’s subtle; like a tingling sensation that persists but is hardly bothersome. But, after some time, that stress becomes chronic and seeps into every part of your being, from your physical health to your happiness and productivity. No one kn...
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The Happiness Hack: Learning to Love Your Negative Emotions
Do you ever feel angry, frustrated, or jealous and try to hide it from others because you don’t want to be perceived as a negative person? Do you have self-doubts and fears that keep you from freely expressing yourself? Congratulations – you're normal! The ability to have feelings is a sign of emoti...
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3 Stages to Learning Mindfulness and Gaining Control of Your Emotions
For some people, life is a joyous adventure, while for others it's full of stress and disappointment. The difference between these people is often how they take on challenges, how they face their fears, how they deal with negativity and, of course, the techniques they use to cope with stressful situ...
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The 3 Personality Traits Shared By People Over 90
Can you imagine what it would be like to live to be ninety? Or older? If you’re like me, you plan (or at least hope) to live a long life. Medical advancements are going to help immensely with that in the future, however, there are already populations all around the world that live long, full lives w...
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How To Combat Body Image Issues Without Actually Changing Your Body
When coronavirus lockdown and social restrictions were announced in Germany, my first reaction was that it wouldn’t cause a huge change to my lifestyle. I have a fairly simple life, I work as a freelancer in my home office and cafes, I spend lots of time in solitude and my social calendar is fairly ...
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How to Deal with Loneliness Inside and Out
There hasn’t been a test in a long time on our collective mental health and emotional stability quite like the one of the past 18 months. When the pandemic unexpectedly hit us in February of 2020 and was followed by a global travel ban and shutdown, we as a human race panicked. Suddenly, we’d been c...
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