General Despair and Anxiety
Use Deep Breathing to Soothe Stress, Anxiety
Mindful, deep breathing is powerful. You’ve probably been told to stop and take a deep breath a time or two in the past when people have noticed you upset, angry or anxious. And while it doesn’t always seem like the most effective solution to your problems, it IS an effective way of coping with stress…
Read More8 Quotes to Help with Anxiety
Those who struggle with anxiety know that facing everyday tasks can be daunting–it can be so challenging to make it to the end of the day without breaking down. Below are several quotes we’ve hand-picked to help you cope on your most anxious days, hours, or minutes. Be sure to save this blog post to…
Read MoreProject Semicolon Starts Conversation About Mental Health, Suicide in Hopes of Lowering Rates
Using Symbolism to Combat Mental Health Issues Because a semi-colon only represents a pause in a sentence, not the end, it has become symbolic for many people who have suffered from the effects of mental illness. Ten years after her father committed suicide, Amy Bleuei began the mental health awareness program, Project Semicolon in 2013, using…
Read MoreShould You Be Talking About Mental Illness At Work?
To Tell or Not To Tell Your Boss About Your Mental Illness: That is the Question Comedian and author Ruby Wax recently told the UK based Times that the answer is no. No, you should not be talking about your mental illness at work, she says. The Guardian reports Wax told the Times “When people say,…
Read More3 Tips for Coping with Stressful Situations
What’s really causing your anxiety? The Oxford dictionary defines anxiety as “a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.” And we all experience nervousness or anxiousness at some point in our lives, but there are some of us who feel these tensions constantly. While the…
Read MoreGoing to the doctor? Consult your Self first!
Next time you consult a doctor and go home with your medication or treatment plan make sure you check in with your Self. Find out if you are truly living to manifest your very own Self or if all you have been doing is being the slave of other people’s rules (parents/caregivers included). It might…
Read MorePsych Central: Please Help I Can’t Communicate (like once I could)
Please Help! “I feel as though I cannot communicate with anyone, it’s not that I do not want to…I can’t. I can’t think of anything to say to start a conversation, sometimes if I’m lucky ill get a conversation going but then random negative thoughts just come back into my head, I get flustered, and…
Read MoreImprove the World by Restoring your Sense of Self
What a great concept: Investigate why you are so needy or controlling – Find out what lies at the root of it – Poke through the perceived dependencies on what WE thought is going to give us what we need to be happy- Restore our sense of Self By doing so, we not only contribute to becoming…
Read MoreCan Feeling-Good-About-Yourself be an addiction?
Stopping your work somewhere halfway is hard. More difficult even is quitting when you’re almost done. Even when you can be pretty sure that there will be another day tomorrow it sometimes feels you have to rip yourself from your desk and shoot yourself out of the office and into the car. Once that is…
Read MoreStage Fright is rooted in Fear of Annihilation
You have an upcoming performance. You are well prepared but anywhere from a day (or several days) to 5 minutes before the event begins your hands become clammy, you start to shake,
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