mentalhealth
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This is What I Would Do in my Self Care Era
So many of us grew up in an era where self-care was not taught properly. Being raised by immigrants in a first-world country, all I observed from my parents was hard work, long hours, and on the reverse, falling asleep on the couch with the TV running. That was balance,…
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6 Ways to Fall in Love with Yourself
Self-love to me means acceptance, understanding, and compassion. We’re often the harshest critics of ourselves, and we neglect our own health and priorities for the sake of others. We fall and stay in the wrong relationships because we don’t value ourselves enough. The deeper you fall in love with yourself,…
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What I Do When My Partner Travels
My partner travels quite frequently for business or leisure—and I must admit the first few days he’s gone are the hardest. As he makes up the majority of the relationship chunk of my life, I end up with all this free time. We also live together so I’m used to…
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Three Non Break-Through Things I Learned in Therapy
I’ve been going to therapy on and off since I was 13 years old. When I was a teenager, it was a mandatory part of my treatment. I was hospitalized for having a pretty dire eating disorder. And I HATED therapy. I was used to lying through my teeth about…
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How to Reduce Stress in Everyday Living
Do you ever find yourself feeling overwhelmed? This uncomfortable feeling tends to arise when we perceive there are too many things on our plates. The problem is, we tend to see our lives through a short-eyed lens. Whatever, we “feel” like doing now, we act upon it— even if it…
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Why I go to Therapy for Emotional Regulation
Have you ever felt a burst of anger in your lungs, so much so that tears start to well up in your eyes? Something in your life, maybe a person or an event triggered these hyperarousal emotions to go off. You end up snapping at a colleague for something small…
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The One Reset that Transformed my Mood
If I told you that I altered just one thing in my life, and it changed how I felt on a daily basis, would you believe me? Did you start meditating? Nope. Did you start eating healthier? No again. Did you sleep more? No. To give you some context, I…
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The “Hack” that Makes You Happier
There’s this odd phenomenon I observed even whilst traveling, and that is: There’s always one factor that brings more peace and joy into the mind. This factor is nature. Nature is defined as “the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features or products…
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How to Get Over #Fomo
You open your phone at 10 pm on a Friday night. Here are the following things you see. A group of people (maybe friends) at a party. A really dope concert. Someone watching the sunrise in Cancun. Another person posing idyllically in front of the Eiffel Tower. How do you…
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3 Notions of Happiness I Had to Overcome
Truthfully, despite the positive images of my life that I let people see online which depict a happy, vibrant, and healthy lifestyle, I find myself often living in a state of mental scarcity. Sometimes you can do everything that should theoretically contribute to happiness and well-being— such as making your…
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