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20 Most Recent Post Titles with Excerpts
A bare list of links to the last 20 blog posts with linked titles, author and date, a short excerpt, and a continue-reading link.
It starts for some when choosing a major in college: you go for the more practical one, not the one you really want to learn about. Instead of art history, you choose law. Then it continues as we grow older: we have to take that job we’re not so passionate about because it pays the bills…
Continue reading...Did you know that with a Healthy Sense of Self you are less prone to accidents and risky behavior? Your actions are more goal oriented, less hesitant, and accompanied by a clearer intention. While the level of intention is difficult to measure, it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Intent is the energetic component of motivation.…
Continue reading...If you haven’t seen it yet, get ready: this ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ parody by MyLifeSuckers is absolutely amazing. Not only did it raise money for local schools, but the video and improvised lyrics pretty much nail the whole parenting thing right on the head. Potty breaks, anyone? “I’m just a poor mom, nobody let’s me She’s just…
Continue reading...Tips For You and Your Kids on Coping with Anxiety In a recent article published on ChildMind.Org, Brigit Katz discusses several ways to avoid passing anxiety on to your children that will benefit the entire family. “Kids look to their parents for information about how to interpret ambiguous situations; if a parent seems consistently anxious and fearful,…
Continue reading...Tips for Observing and Raising Awareness about National Safety Month In a country where injuries are the leading cause of death for those ages 1-44, it’s important for all of us to take some time to get back down to the basics (and not so basics) of safety. From everything like places to trip and fall,…
Continue reading...Six Lessons Kindergarteners Have to Teach About Emotional Intelligence In an adorably intelligent video produced by Wavecrest Films, several kindergartens display a true understanding of their own emotions, and if we’re smart, we’ll listen to what they have to say. Published on UpWorthy, the video features kids that have “benefitted from social and emotional learning…
Continue reading...We hear it all the time: “You’ve got to know yourself.” The search for such knowledge is a journey that many, if not all of us, go on at some point in our lives. However, some of us seem to be more successful at it than others…and those people often seem to be happier and…
Continue reading...The media is saturated with it. We just have to turn on the television, open a fashion or beauty magazine, log into Facebook, and what do we see? We see multiple images of women and men who are supposed to represent some sort of ‘ideal’. Each decade we encounter a different version of ‘ideal’. With…
Continue reading...Editor’s Note: There are many pathways to developing a strong and healthy Sense of Self and yoga instructor Thereza Howling believes that yoga as a tool is much more than a physical practice. She is a certified yoga instructor and currently teaches kids, teens, and adults in Washington State. She is excited to share the result of her…
Continue reading...It’s commonly known that most of us strive to be “normal” in life, whether we admit it or not. This desire to be considered developmentally the same as others is especially common in children, but even many adults desperately want to fit in so they can feel accepted. The problem with wanting to be considered…
Continue reading...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…
Continue reading...You wake up, brush your teeth, work-out, clean last night’s dishes. You get ready for work, spend 45 minutes driving and the next 8 hours of your life at a messy desk. You come home, cook dinner, sweep the floors, check your email, and fall asleep to Netflix. But why? OK, so the teeth-brushing and…
Continue reading...Editor’s Note: We launched the first Sense-of-Self Help Online course in Fall of 2014. The online course is our attempt to give people an experience of working through the Sense of Self Method. The online course is based on the book, Healthy Sense of Self — How to be true to your Self and make…
Continue reading...Even if we had the best upbringing the world has to offer, we’re all sure to have had experienced misunderstandings with our parents and/or caregivers. And many times the conflict we encounter with our parents is due to our desire to become and maintain our truest selves. Our parent(s) may often knowing or…
Continue reading...Insomnia interferes with a lot in your life, but it is also a great way to get to know yourself (as I experienced). As such it is a blessing disguised as a curse. I have a long history of “Lack of Sense of Self.” I had over 20 years of insomnia, and in time thankfully…
Continue reading...Insomnia interferes with a lot in your life, but it is also a great way to get to know yourself (as I experienced). As such it is a blessing disguised as a curse. I have a long history of “Lack of Sense of Self.” I had over 20 years of insomnia, and in time thankfully…
Continue reading...For some, it only happens when something bad occurs. For others, it’s a nightly struggle. Either way, 40 million Americans have difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or sleeping as long as they would like, according to this Marpac infographic we recently found via the National Sleep Foundation and shared on our Facebook and Twitter pages: And…
Continue reading...Healthy Sense of Self is happy to be a sponsor of Bellevue High School Athletics. When Northwest Athletics called us proposing that we sponsor Bellevue High School’s current sport schedule of Football and Basketball, it got us thinking. What is the role of athletics in the larger picture of a whole education of a person? Participation in individual and…
Continue reading...20 Most Recent Post Titles
A bare list of links to the last 20 blog posts.