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Empowering Yourself to Conquer an Addiction

…, anticipating feeling painful emotions is more overwhelming than actually experiencing them. Ultimately, being with the feelings rather that running from them can reduce your desire to engage in addictions. Expect your critical inner voice to retaliate.When we first resist the addiction and the actions dictated by our critical inner voice, we should expect the voices to get louder. A starved monster tends to kick and scream. Yet, it’s when we per…

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Creating a Path from “I Hate My Life” to Resilience and Self-Realization

…hink “I hate my life.” Whatever we feel is going wrong, be it our job, our relationships, or our social, economic, or even political circumstances, there are ways to cope with hard times and truly feel better. This Webinar with Dr. Lisa Firestone will discuss psychological tools and scientifically backed concepts that can change the very way we see ourselves and our circumstances. Her 90-minute presentation includes the following: An introduction…

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Nature as Medicine

…that comes from witnessing a thing of natural wonder, vastness, or beauty. Experiencing these moments of awe enhances our well-being. In fact, the emotion of awe has been shown to make people feel more empathetic, trusting, generous and humble, which, in turn, improves their relationships. These findings are inspiring to me personally, because they encourage us to not just connect with the world around us but with a part of ourselves that is more…

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What is Killing Our Soldiers?

…uicidal, he or she is in a detached, disassociated state in which they are experiencing severe self-critical thoughts often telling them that they are no good, that they do not matter or that they don’t belong. Soldiers often experience thoughts that they are a failure, weak, and to blame. When they return home, their self-attacks often increase. They frequently feel alienated from and at odds with the rest of society. The long absences and person…

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How to Not Lose Track of What’s Really Important

…s that play out like fairy tales about how our lives should go and how our relationships should look. If we’re not careful, these fantasies can slowly take over, becoming more important to us than our real experience. We spend time crafting a perfect picture rather than enjoying the real-time relating that would make the moment mean something to us on a deeper level. We also possess an inner critic that further fixates on “should’s.” When we’re wo…

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Quiz: How Stressed Are you?

…er, compromising our fullest experience of life. If you notice that you’re experiencing a lot of stress, here are a few things you can do right away to start to feel better: Stand up to your inner critic: Much of our stress arises, not from our experiences alone, but from what we are telling ourselves about our experiences in our minds. In her blog “Silence the Inner Voice That’s Stressing You Out,” psychologist Lisa Firestone states, “Many of us…

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Sleep Deprivation, sleep and mental health, insomnia

Sleep: The Cure for Negativity in People with Anxiety

…or depression. “Staying positive” becomes even more difficult when one is experiencing sleep deprivation in addition to anxiety and depression. In the study, Klumpp measured participants’ automatic ability to “reappraise” certain images, which she says requires “significant mental energy.” Klumpp explains, “In people with depression or anxiety, reappraisal can be even more difficult, because these disorders are characterized by chronic negativity…

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Why Are So Many Parents Limited in Loving Their Children?

…ll cause children to have feelings of being trapped or suffocated by close relationships in later life. As adults, they may experience affection as physical or psychological pain. 8. Due to inadequate or problematic parenting styles, many children develop traits that are unlikeable or intolerable. They may become unruly, defiant, disobedient, obnoxious, demanding, hostile or generally unpleasant. Even though they have been a primary cause of these…

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Psychological First Aid

…ncy Standing Committee (IASC) of the United Nations wrote that most people experiencing acute psychological distress following exposure to stressful events are “best supported without medication” and that “all aid workers, and especially health workers, should be able to provide very basic psychological first aid” (2007, pp. 118-119).   Defining Psychological First Aid   Perhaps the best way to conceptualize PFA is as the psychological health anal…

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It’s Time to Talk about Mental Health

…is to keep mental health on our minds year round. Right now, Americans are experiencing peak levels of stress. The World Health Organization has reported an 18 percent rise in depression in the past decade. In the United States, teen depression in particular has been increasing, as has the teen suicide rate. These are not just numbers from a survey. These are real individuals of all ages struggling; these are our friends, relatives, co-workers…. a…

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