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A collection of stories, strategies, and tips to inspire your mental and emotional health journey.
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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.
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Your Feelings are Real
I'm a guest blogger on the Emotional Health Institute website :) and this blog is one I posted there.
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Getting Along with Difficult People
You know who they are....those aggravating individuals. They range from rubbing you the wrong way to openly critical or aggressive toward you.
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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.
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Overcoming Self-Doubt
Self-doubt is the biggest bully, ever. You don't even have to go outside yourself to hear deprecating self-talk about your thoughts and actions, how you feel and look, who values you-if anyone, your likelihood of success, who has your back? who is trustworthy, etc.
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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].
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Don't let a bad vibe carry you away
Did you really have a bad day or did you have 10-20 minutes where you let your thoughts run undisciplined which led you to a bad vibe that you let carry you away. Come on... you run this [show]. Pay attention.
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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?
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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.