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    How Positive Self-Talk Can Transform Your Life

    February 2, 2024

    We are with ourselves 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the conversations we have with ourselves constitute the most powerful influence on our feelings, actions, and characters. How would you describe your internal conversations? Are they kind, supportive, honest, and patient? Or are they angry, critical, and discouraging? If the latter’s the […]

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    How Positive Self-Talk Can Transform Your Life

    February 2, 2024

    We are with ourselves 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the conversations we have with ourselves constitute the most powerful influence on our feelings, actions, and characters. How would you describe your internal conversations? Are they kind, supportive, honest, and patient? Or are they angry, critical, and discouraging? If the latter’s the […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Depression, Emotion Regulation, General, Happiness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Self-Compassion Tagged With: acceptance, feelings, grateful, positive self-talk, thoughts

    Post-Traumatic Growth During COVID-19 and Beyond

    April 12, 2023

    What constitutes trauma or adversity? Essentially anything that causes physical or psychological pain or injury. This includes personal illness or injury, witnessing the same in someone else, natural disasters, enduring abuse, the death of someone close to us, job loss, addiction, financial problems, relationship difficulties, and incarceration. The range and magnitude of trauma is vast. […]

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    Post-Traumatic Growth During COVID-19 and Beyond

    April 12, 2023

    What constitutes trauma or adversity? Essentially anything that causes physical or psychological pain or injury. This includes personal illness or injury, witnessing the same in someone else, natural disasters, enduring abuse, the death of someone close to us, job loss, addiction, financial problems, relationship difficulties, and incarceration. The range and magnitude of trauma is vast. […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Addiction, Anxiety, Depression, Emotion Regulation, General, Happiness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Relationships Tagged With: acceptance, COVID, growth, openness, post-traumatic growth, relationships, spiritual, strength, trauma

    16 Facts and Tips About Radical Acceptance

    July 7, 2020

    When we think about the term “acceptance”, many people believe that this means either condoning a situation or behavior. Not so. Acceptance is not an excuse to be passive, to give up our rights in a matter, or resign ourselves to continued abuse. Quite the opposite. Acceptance is actually a proactive stance. Radical Acceptance, one […]

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    16 Facts and Tips About Radical Acceptance

    July 7, 2020

    When we think about the term “acceptance”, many people believe that this means either condoning a situation or behavior. Not so. Acceptance is not an excuse to be passive, to give up our rights in a matter, or resign ourselves to continued abuse. Quite the opposite. Acceptance is actually a proactive stance. Radical Acceptance, one […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Depression, Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Growth Tagged With: acceptance, ADHD, behaviors, binge eating, Borderline Personality Disorder, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, expectations, Marsha Linehan, radical acceptance, urges, willingness

    15 Ways To Access Your Inner Wisdom

    February 6, 2020

    How do you think your life would change if you had absolute faith that some all-loving and all-wise being could and was managing all of your problems? You’d probably feel a lot less stressed, for starters. You might sleep better at night, be more energized during the day, and be less distracted and thus better […]

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    15 Ways To Access Your Inner Wisdom

    February 6, 2020

    How do you think your life would change if you had absolute faith that some all-loving and all-wise being could and was managing all of your problems? You’d probably feel a lot less stressed, for starters. You might sleep better at night, be more energized during the day, and be less distracted and thus better […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Courage, General, Mindfulness, Personal Growth Tagged With: acceptance, cognitive distortions, faith, inner wisdom, mindfulness, negative thoughts, patient, wisdom, wise mind

    20 Ideas To Help You Find Peace

    October 14, 2019

    Studies have demonstrated again and again that maintaining a formal, daily meditation practice benefits our bodies, minds, and souls in many ways. Reduced anxiety, depression, and compulsiveness, greater serenity, deeper sleep, and enhanced immunity to disease are some of the perks of consistent meditation. However, if you don’t feel you have the time, desire, or […]

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    20 Ideas To Help You Find Peace

    October 14, 2019

    Studies have demonstrated again and again that maintaining a formal, daily meditation practice benefits our bodies, minds, and souls in many ways. Reduced anxiety, depression, and compulsiveness, greater serenity, deeper sleep, and enhanced immunity to disease are some of the perks of consistent meditation. However, if you don’t feel you have the time, desire, or […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Anxiety, Emotion Regulation, General, Happiness, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Words of Wisdom Tagged With: acceptance, meditation, peace, serenity

    14 Reasons To Practice Acceptance

    November 2, 2018

    How do you usually respond when life just isn’t going the way you want it to? Maybe your spouse forgot your birthday, you got a flat tire on that day when you simply have to get to an important meeting, or you received a scary health diagnosis. What to do? Yes, you could yell at […]

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    14 Reasons To Practice Acceptance

    November 2, 2018

    How do you usually respond when life just isn’t going the way you want it to? Maybe your spouse forgot your birthday, you got a flat tire on that day when you simply have to get to an important meeting, or you received a scary health diagnosis. What to do? Yes, you could yell at […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Anxiety, Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Relationships Tagged With: acceptance, feelings, health, relationships

    Accepting Vs. Condoning

    October 24, 2011

    Often when the idea of self-compassion is introduced to people, they become uncomfortable. When questioned, they express concern that if they offer themselves self-compassion, they’ll give themselves permission to continue with the same behaviors and attitudes. This misconception needs to be dispelled. Self-compassion does not mean condoning. In fact, self-compassion entails accepting responsibility for our […]

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    Accepting Vs. Condoning

    October 24, 2011

    Often when the idea of self-compassion is introduced to people, they become uncomfortable. When questioned, they express concern that if they offer themselves self-compassion, they’ll give themselves permission to continue with the same behaviors and attitudes. This misconception needs to be dispelled. Self-compassion does not mean condoning. In fact, self-compassion entails accepting responsibility for our […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, General, Self-Compassion Tagged With: acceptance, self-compassion

    Acceptance and Kindness

    August 6, 2011

    Sometimes there’s just no way around it — we’re uncomfortable. Having the capacity to feel deeply means that we’ll have moments of excitement, joy, love, laughter, peace… and also boredom, sadness, anger, tears, and anxiety. However, it’s often through our judgment of our distressing emotions that we end up having more of them. For instance, […]

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    Acceptance and Kindness

    August 6, 2011

    Sometimes there’s just no way around it — we’re uncomfortable. Having the capacity to feel deeply means that we’ll have moments of excitement, joy, love, laughter, peace… and also boredom, sadness, anger, tears, and anxiety. However, it’s often through our judgment of our distressing emotions that we end up having more of them. For instance, […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Self-Compassion Tagged With: acceptance, common humanity, mindfulness, self-kindness

    Minding Our Business

    July 2, 2011

    Do you ever feel as if you’re tending to more than one thing at a time, such as eating a meal while you work on your computer, or (gasp) texting while you’re driving? Do you find yourself feeling scattered or tense as a result? Do you notice that you’ve developed habits, such as relying on […]

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    Minding Our Business

    July 2, 2011

    Do you ever feel as if you’re tending to more than one thing at a time, such as eating a meal while you work on your computer, or (gasp) texting while you’re driving? Do you find yourself feeling scattered or tense as a result? Do you notice that you’ve developed habits, such as relying on […]

    Filed Under: Mindfulness Tagged With: acceptance, mindfulness

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