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A collection of stories, strategies, and tips to inspire your mental and emotional health journey.
What is Your Emotional Temperature?
How do you feel when you woke up in the morning? By noon, what is your mood? When your work day is done, what emotions are swirling? Do you drop off to sleep gently? Is your sleep restful?
Shift Out of Emotional Upset
We all have them. Emotions are a physical sensation that our mind labels as anger, contempt, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness or surprise, or some combination of these.
Workplace Stress Project
How can we be happy and productive in an inherently stressful workplace? We all want to work in an environment that supports our creativity and skills.
How Are Emotions are Made
New findings in behavioral and neuroscience have found that emotions are not wired into our brains at birth or any time after. Emotions are predictions or guesses grounded in previous experience.
What is Stopping Us?
We want to be our best selves. We try to eat well, exercise, meditate and pray, maintain social connections and keep our minds active. But what about our emotional health?
Finding the Motivation
Do you find yourself in a gray area between the “angst to do it” and “the peace of not having acceleration?” Sometimes we linger in inactivity—knowing we have things to do but not feeling active pressure to move forward.
Emotional First Aid
How would you like to have a remedy for every uncomfortable emotion that comes up in your life? Sound too good to be true? It may sound incredible, but it is true and verifiable.
Success is Good for You?
Where do your dreams, plans and actions fall apart, the launch, the flight, or the landing? Whether the goal is large or small, our success, or lack thereof, is decided by the little beliefs and attitudes that we carry with us in the undercurrent of our subconscious voice.
Playing for the Sharks: Conquering Stage Fright
How is it that no matter how prepared you are, when you step into the spotlight, it is like the fresh hell of terror? It can start the moments, hours, or days before the event.
Coronavirus Stress and Uncertainty
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought all our anxiety, fears and panic out onto the table in front of us. The stress is constant and mounting as we are told to "Stay in place", "Stay 6-feet apart" and "wash your hands repeatedly"
Use Guilt for Good
It's a new year. And for many, it's a time to make plans and resolutions for improvement in the coming year. But in the end, are we just setting ourselves up for another thrashing by guilt and regret?
Your Feelings are Real
I'm a guest blogger on the Emotional Health Institute website :) and this blog is one I posted there.
Emotional Help for College Stress
With High School complete, the next life step for many graduates is college which includes new responsibilities, financial pressures and scholastic expectations. Many college students are not emotionally equipped for the challenges they will face.
Fear is a Fearsome Thing
I think everyone has, at one time or another, had a fear or phobia of some kind. Some fears are not as bothersome, especially if you don't encounter the fear trigger very often. Like the duck-watching-me fear, anatidaephobia, if you don't encounter many ducks, or are in environments where duck are likely to pop up, then may be relatively manageable.
Emotional Merry-go-rounds and other spirals
It's that situation again. That person or group is present. This conversation or action will trigger my feelings. I'll spiral into my "go-to" emotions. and I'll be back in my misery, again. It takes too much energy and time to climb out of that wheel.
Does Emotional Resolution replace Therapy?
The short-answer is No. Therapy or Psychotherapy is a process where a trained professional uses verbal and psychological techniques to help their client tackle specific or general problems such as a particular mental illness or a source of life stress by exploring their cause and effect on the client's life and behavior[1].
Clearing the Tears
Why do we think something is wrong when we are crying? OH OH — Someone is experiencing an emotion, they have droplets of water coming out of their eyes……. that can’t be good? or can it?
Letting Go of "IT"
How many times have we heard or thought to ourselves, "just let it go"? Don't be angry forever, let it go. Don't be anxious or fearful, let it go. If we could just wash it off in the shower, or cough it out like a puff of smog, that would be one thing.