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Healing Self-Hatred: Transform Self-Loathing Into Self-Compassion
It can be difficult to see your worth when you are hard on yourself. Self-loathing is when you believe that you are not good enough or will never be able to accomplish your goals. Healing [...]
What Role Does Counseling Play In Building Your Self-Confidence?
The Dalai Lama once said, 'With realization of one’s potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.’ And that is the power of self-confidence. There are times in life when we feel that we [...]
How To Use Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Techniques In Daily Life?
Intro Practicing mindfulness has been a hot topic recently, and many people have opinions on this topic. In fact, 40% of Americans meditate weekly, 8% meditate once or twice a month, and 4% do it [...]
Self-Hatred Is Killing Your Entity, Why Does This Feeling Occur?
Do you always feel like you are not as worthy as your friend, sibling, classmate, or any other acquaintance? Or do you always put yourself down for your looks, career preferences, job, and other decisions [...]
How To Practice Gratitude
Practicing gratitude can have many benefits, ranging from improving your mental health to deepening relationships. Gratitude is linked with numerous positive health benefits, but do you know how to practice gratitude that gives you all [...]
What Is Shadow Therapy, And How Can It Benefit You?
The personal shadow develops in everyone from childhood. It encompasses thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that we do not accept. The reason is because they are incompatible with the social norms and the “should be” of [...]
Building Daily Routine For Optimal Mental Health
Building daily routine is a pillar of good health. It's no secret that our mental health can have a big impact on our overall well-being. When we're feeling good mentally, we're more likely to be [...]
The 5 Stages of Burnout
Intro If you constantly feel emotionally and physically exhausted and have had no time to recoup, you may be suffering from burnout. Do you know the 5 stages of burnout? As many people experience, burnout [...]
The Relation Between Imposter Syndrome and Perfectionism
Are you someone who likes to do everything by yourself? Do you find yourself micromanaging all the time? Has anyone told you that you cannot delegate tasks to others? If all this sounds like you, [...]
What To Expect From Mental Health Counseling
What should someone expect from mental health counseling? A question I get quite often as a mental health professional. There are many types of counselors out there, but this article will focus on licensed professional [...]
Leave Burnout Behind: 6 Ways You Can Reignite Your Life
Do you want to leave burnout behind? Know what it is first. Burnout is a state of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion that results from overextending oneself physically, mentally, or emotionally. It is characterized by [...]
How To Combat Self-Hatred?
Do you think you are suffering from self-hatred? Are you always doubting yourself? If yes, then you have come to the right place to overcome this issue! One of the most common things people face [...]
10 Signs of Low Self-esteem in a Woman and What to Do to Boost It
Women are much stronger than men. Low self-esteem is a common problem that many women face on a daily basis. This can be due to a number of factors, including society's expectations, personal experiences, and [...]
How Does Stress Affect Our Everyday Life?
In our daily life, we find ourselves overloaded with demands derived from different stressful situations: labor and economic problems, exams, arguments with our partner or family, inflation, a decrease in salary, lack of work, etc., [...]
10 Reasons Why You Feel “Not Good Enough”
Why would you not know that you are good enough? Feeling "not good enough" is more common than you would think. As a new mental health professional, I was surprised to find out that more [...]
Stress Effects On Your Body
Stress is an inevitable part of life; however, the effects of stress on physical and mental health are enormous. Stress affects every area of your life. Digestive problems, the immune system, reproductive systems, sleep, brain, [...]
15 Easy Stress Management Techniques You Can Practice Today
Effective holistic stress management techniques are oxygen to a healthy body and mind. Stress can be described as mental or emotional pressure. Our body responds to any change, whether physical or emotional. Stress causes a [...]
8 Warning Signs You Might Be Experiencing Chronic Stress
The symptoms of chronic stress are so subtle that we overlook them. It's important to recognize them, though, because only then will you know when the time is right for you to take a break [...]
Money Makes You Happy – is a Myth
Money makes you happy - is a myth. In my initial paperwork for counseling and coaching new clients, almost 80% of the people list the following as one of their goals: “I just want [...]
How to break toxic emotional patterns
Intro Do you often wonder why the same things keep happening to you over and over and over again? That’s because toxic emotional patterns keep you from being emotionally resilient. An example may be [...]
8 Signs of Unhealthy Pride
Intro How can being prideful hurt you and your emotional resiliency? Unhealthy pride can. It can also keep you away from your goal of living each day to the fullest. This can be a [...]
7 C’s of Emotional Resiliency
Intro Emotional resiliency takes time and effort. You just don’t wake up emotionally resilient one day. It is a skill that is mindfully acquired and practiced often so you can get good at it. [...]
Conquering Overthinking, Self-Criticism, And Negative Self-talk in 4 easy steps
Intro In this article, we are focusing on pivoting and building emotional resiliency. Being able to emotionally pivot from difficult situations plays a very important role in a happy and fulfilling life. Things that [...]
How to work with repressed emotions for pivoting
Intro When we talk about becoming emotionally resilient, repressed emotions are an uninvited guest. This article will outline the repressed emotions that hinder your ability to pivot. We all have repressed emotions that we [...]