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    The 3-Step Path to Self-Compassion

    August 4, 2018

    It’s usually pretty easy to feel good about ourselves when things are going our way, when we’ve been making significant progress on our personal and professional intentions, and when we’re in harmony with the important people in our lives. However, when we fall short of our own expectations, disappoint others, or fail to achieve a […]

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    The 3-Step Path to Self-Compassion

    It’s usually pretty easy to feel good about ourselves when things are going our way, when we’ve been making significant progress on our personal and professional intentions, and when we’re in harmony with the important people in our lives. However, when we fall short of our own expectations, disappoint others, or fail to achieve a […]

    Filed Under: Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Self-Compassion Tagged With: kindness, mindfulness, self-compassion

    How To Manage Your Obsessive Thoughts

    July 21, 2018

    Our minds are meaning-making machines. First and foremost, our minds try to protect us by figuring out how to avoid danger. Our minds are interpreters of our world and immediate circumstances. It’s a fact of nature – we are instinctively on high alert for danger, because first and foremost we want to survive.  After all, […]

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    How To Manage Your Obsessive Thoughts

    Our minds are meaning-making machines. First and foremost, our minds try to protect us by figuring out how to avoid danger. Our minds are interpreters of our world and immediate circumstances. It’s a fact of nature – we are instinctively on high alert for danger, because first and foremost we want to survive.  After all, […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Anxiety, Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Growth Tagged With: feeling, obsessive, thoughts

    Why We Fear Change (and How To Get Over It)

    July 3, 2018

    It’s the beginning of July, and you may be wondering where all of those New Year’s resolutions went. You thought that you really meant it when you vowed to never again eat an entire chocolate cake at one sitting, drunk-dial your ex at 2 a.m., or fall behind on your credit card payments. Yet here […]

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    Why We Fear Change (and How To Get Over It)

    It’s the beginning of July, and you may be wondering where all of those New Year’s resolutions went. You thought that you really meant it when you vowed to never again eat an entire chocolate cake at one sitting, drunk-dial your ex at 2 a.m., or fall behind on your credit card payments. Yet here […]

    Filed Under: Addiction, Emotion Regulation, General, Goal Setting, Personal Growth Tagged With: change, problems

    How To Respond Effectively To Criticism

    June 28, 2018

    We can’t expect everyone to approve of us or our behavior at all times – it’s simply impossible, since different people prefer different things. Also, we are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations. In addition, none of us are perfect. So, it’s inevitable that we’ll be on the receiving end […]

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    How To Respond Effectively To Criticism

    We can’t expect everyone to approve of us or our behavior at all times – it’s simply impossible, since different people prefer different things. Also, we are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations. In addition, none of us are perfect. So, it’s inevitable that we’ll be on the receiving end […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Relationships Tagged With: criticism, effectively

    8 Tips For Dealing With Painful Emotions

    May 31, 2018

    Into every life some rain must fall. As smug as this cliché may sound, it’s true. Even if we’ve been blessed with the “happy” gene, we cannot avoid feeling emotionally uncomfortable from time to time. We feel things for a reason. Our emotional pain carries a message. If someone close to us passes away, it’s […]

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    8 Tips For Dealing With Painful Emotions

    Into every life some rain must fall. As smug as this cliché may sound, it’s true. Even if we’ve been blessed with the “happy” gene, we cannot avoid feeling emotionally uncomfortable from time to time. We feel things for a reason. Our emotional pain carries a message. If someone close to us passes away, it’s […]

    Filed Under: Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health, Self-Compassion Tagged With: emotions

    Seven Important Facts About Emotions

    March 16, 2018

    Do you consider yourself an “emotional” person? Or do you tend to rely more on your logic and intellect than on your feelings? What are your thoughts on the following concepts about emotions? We are primarily responsible for our emotions. There are certainly genetic components to how intensely we feel certain ways. Some people are […]

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    Seven Important Facts About Emotions

    Do you consider yourself an “emotional” person? Or do you tend to rely more on your logic and intellect than on your feelings? What are your thoughts on the following concepts about emotions? We are primarily responsible for our emotions. There are certainly genetic components to how intensely we feel certain ways. Some people are […]

    Filed Under: Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health Tagged With: emotions

    Seven Crucial Tactics For Effective Change

    February 19, 2018

    Maybe you’ve been thinking about moving on from your current job. Or going back to school. Or getting up an hour earlier, so you can actually eat a real breakfast and enjoy your coffee before the kids are up. And maybe you’ve been contemplating these changes for a month, or a year, and yet you […]

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    Seven Crucial Tactics For Effective Change

    Maybe you’ve been thinking about moving on from your current job. Or going back to school. Or getting up an hour earlier, so you can actually eat a real breakfast and enjoy your coffee before the kids are up. And maybe you’ve been contemplating these changes for a month, or a year, and yet you […]

    Filed Under: Anxiety, Courage, General, Goal Setting, Personal Growth Tagged With: change

    20 Tips To Stop Your Mind From Wandering and Overthinking

    February 2, 2018

    A 2010 study of over 2200 people found that about 47% of the time people are not thinking about what’s going on in the present. What’s more, the Harvard University researchers found that when our thoughts are focused in places other than the present moment, we are not as happy as when we’re in the […]

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    20 Tips To Stop Your Mind From Wandering and Overthinking

    A 2010 study of over 2200 people found that about 47% of the time people are not thinking about what’s going on in the present. What’s more, the Harvard University researchers found that when our thoughts are focused in places other than the present moment, we are not as happy as when we’re in the […]

    Filed Under: Anxiety, Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health, Mindfulness Tagged With: mindfulness, overthinking, worry

    28 Questions To Enhance Your Relationships With Others

    January 19, 2018

    You may think that you know your spouse on a deep level. And certainly you “get” your best friend. As for your child, well, who would understand them better than you? Or is this really this case? Even if we see someone frequently and talk with them often, it doesn’t necessarily follow that we truly […]

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    28 Questions To Enhance Your Relationships With Others

    You may think that you know your spouse on a deep level. And certainly you “get” your best friend. As for your child, well, who would understand them better than you? Or is this really this case? Even if we see someone frequently and talk with them often, it doesn’t necessarily follow that we truly […]

    Filed Under: General, Relationships Tagged With: questions, relationships

    Ten Questions To Ask Yourself For A Happier 2018

    December 30, 2017

    As the New Year approaches, you may be evaluating what has transpired in 2017 and what you’d like to experience in 2018. The following questions may help you to constructively and compassionately consider where you’ve progressed during this year, where you’ve possibly taken some unexpected or unhelpful detours, and where you’d like to go in […]

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    Ten Questions To Ask Yourself For A Happier 2018

    As the New Year approaches, you may be evaluating what has transpired in 2017 and what you’d like to experience in 2018. The following questions may help you to constructively and compassionately consider where you’ve progressed during this year, where you’ve possibly taken some unexpected or unhelpful detours, and where you’d like to go in […]

    Filed Under: General, Holidays, Personal Growth Tagged With: happier

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