School-Life Balance: Well-being Comes First
What can you name as the most important skill of our century? Right, the sense of balance. With the modern pace of life, we constantly try to stretch 24 hours out to 48, as it’s obviously not enough to complete all the tasks, meet the deadlines, spend some quality...
read moreHow Journaling Can Help Reduce Stress and Anxiety
Journaling has long been suggested as an amazing method to help cut down on stress and anxiety, especially during the pandemic. From doodling your thoughts on the blank pages of a fresh notebook when you were younger to writing out your thoughts and feelings for a...
read moreTen Things You Can Do for Your Mental Health
When it comes to the overall wellbeing of an individual, the importance of mental health can never be overemphasized. This is because mental health involves the various factors that can affect our psychological wellbeing. If you would like to manage your mental...
read moreBody Image: The 2021 List of Facts, Figures, and Statistics
Body image is becoming an increasingly well-known topic, between online campaigns about loving your body, television shows about weight loss, and celebrities being more open about their own struggles with this topic. But how widespread are body image issues? And what...
read moreHow Parents Can Help Kids Who Are Scared and Anxious During the Pandemic
For the kids in our lives, the last nine months have been many things. Scary — because an invisible, unknown illness was suddenly spreading across the globe. Maybe even fun, when the possibility of school closing felt like a snow day. But for many, that novelty has...
read moreCompassion Is Your Compass to Happiness
6 ways to navigate you to your true North... “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” Lao Tzu The...
read moreBe CALM
CALM Choose to physically remove yourself from the situation Take a walk, go to another room, step away If you cannot get away then turn away, close your eyes, take a few deep breaths Accept that there is a bigger picture, look for it There are rewards to staying...
read moreEmotional Symptoms of Stress: 10 Ways to Manage Your Stress
Stress is our body’s defensive mood in any tough situation. When we face a challenge, our body becomes alert and produces a great amount of cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine to face the challenge. As a result, the chemicals create some immediate reactions to...
read moreAutumn Anxiety
The change in seasons, specifically from summer to fall, can evoke worry, fear, and other negative emotions. Colorful leaves, cozy sweaters, a return to cooler weather, pumpkin spice everything: It’s no surprise that 40 percent of Americans say that fall is their...
read moreSeasonal Affective Disorder During the Pandemic
For some, this time of year can bring an unfortunate change in mood and behavior that, for many, is part of a condition called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD looks a lot like depression because symptoms include a disinterest in activities one usually enjoys, a...
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