Category: Stress and Anxiety
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Working with Holiday Stress and Holiday Depression: 3 Areas of Focus
Holiday stress and holiday depression can be relieved by focusing on three interrelated areas where stress and depression are manifested. physical/behavioral mental/emotional spirit/soul. A Force of Nature We can begin to understand holiday stress and depression by looking at some circumstances that are out of our control. We need to look at what is…
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Work Stress, the Art of Work and Meditation in Action
Meditation in action transforms work stress. We only need to take three deep breaths and notice the subtle difference in how we feel. It doesn’t take much. As we calm down little by little, we can think and feel more clearly about what is important emotionally and rationally. The art of work and the art…
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Existential Therapy or How to Solve Our Inner Conflict
Existential therapy is a method of therapy that is based on philosophy and that believes that humans struggle with an inner conflict because they are confronted with certain givens of existence that they cannot change. So existential therapy is all about the human condition. It looks to uncover positive aspects of humanity and human abilities,…
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How to Love One’s Self and Working with the Fear of Loving
The act of loving one’s self feels right. It makes sense. It is simple, “love your self”. And, it is very complicated because there are parts of ourselves that we resist acknowledging, let alone loving. Loving one’s self is a continual process of uncovering smarter and kinder ways of relating to our self, to others…
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Exposure Therapy: Dealing with Social Anxiety and People
What is exposure therapy? In a world where the accent falls on being connected, staying upbeat, making new friends, and socializing even when you’re not outside, some people may struggle to deal with even the slightest step out of their comfort zone. Phobias and chronic anxieties aren’t conditions to go away lightly. Fortunately, though, behavioral…
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How to Clear Your Mind; Finding Your Way
Some ways to clear your mind are healthier than others, some longer lasting. You can clear your mind with a temporary distraction or clear it with a transformative experience. There are ways to calm down that have deeper and more lasting effects. The side effects are more positive. It can be exhausting when the mind…
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Body Image Issues: How to Live in Our Own Skin
Body image issues are inherent in our culture. Women, as well as men, are healing this problem by waking up to what it is and how it operates insidiously within our culture and within individuals. Body image definition: ‘Body image refers to how people see themselves. Distorted body image (also called negative body image) refers to…
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Work Stress and Feeling Overworked
How to deal with stress at work is more complicated than we might think. Usually we “just endure” the stress at work. Endurance is an important quality to develop. However, if that is the only tool in the tool box we could exhaust our body as well as our spirit. This is one…
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Cultural Mania in the Individual
A very large majority of people in the American culture have normalized mania. We are affected by this because we live in the culture. We participate in it, either to fuel or to heal it. “Trump is not a man apart. He is, instead, merely one of us writ large.” Michael D’Antonio who wrote the…
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Holiday Stress
How we interact with Holiday Stress is where the relief happens. How we relate with overwhelming situations, feelings and time constraints is the skill that we are learning. Healthy stress and Unhealthy stress Healthy stress is the challenge we give ourselves to mature and grow in our life. Unhealthy stress makes us sick and depressed.…
