Category: Mindfulness
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5 Types of Boundaries For Healthy Social Media Use
One of the most valuable steps you can take to improve your mental health (and the overall quality of life) is to enforce boundaries for healthy social media use. But it can feel so impossible to do successfully or to stick to consistently! Also, is it just me, or does the looming new year make […]
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How to build awareness of your habitual thought patterns
You may be aware by now of the following inconvenience of being a human with a brain: your own thoughts and thought patterns can be at the core of a lot of your suffering and unhappiness in life. That’s not to say that all your habitual thought patterns are bad — that they all consist […]
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What is holistic wellness? Why you should view your wellbeing holistically
I’ve had what could probably be referred to as multiple “phases” in my wellness journey. The competitive athlete. The obsessed gym goer on a strict diet. The try-to-do-it all socially, while still maintaining a certain fitness level. I’ve learned a lot from my parents, coaches, teammates, and other mentors. I’ve also taught myself a lot […]
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How to be more present in life: nine habits to build
The only moment that is truly ours in life is the present moment. I know I don’t need to tell you that. But even though we’re aware of the fragility of life, we don’t always do a good job of actually living with presence . It’s something we could all work on. That’s why I […]
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How Mindfulness Can Greatly Improve Your Life — and how to get started TODAY
Mindfulness has become a bit of a buzz word in the personal development space. And as happens with many buzzwords, that means it runs the risk of being misunderstood or misused. And when that’s the case, you might miss out on a lot of value for how mindfulness can greatly improve your life. What comes […]
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8 highly effective ways to simplify your life
You may not think you need to simplify your life. But let me ask you something. Take a second and think back on your life in recent weeks. Can you think of a time where you overcomplicated things? I know plenty of examples come to mind right away for me. 🤦 Truth is, we are […]
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17 ways to declutter your mind
What comes to mind when you think “declutter your mind”? To me, a cluttered mind is the sensation of a brain so full of thoughts, responsibilities and so on that it can be increasingly difficult to focus on or accomplish much. Sometimes, you can’t effectively regulate your emotions because of it. Making good decisions becomes […]
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Balconies & Basements: The Two Sides To All Strengths
When I first started at my current job, my company had us do an activity to help identify our strengths. While the assessment itself was insightful, what most stuck with my was an analogy used to demonstrate how there can be two vastly different interpretations of the same character trait. The idea is that there […]
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How To Recognize Your Blind Spots
The way that you see the world is not the only version of it that there is. The way that you see yourself is not the only version of you that exists. Often, it’s not the external world that holds us back in life, it’s our internal world — the fact that we can be […]
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The Power of Self Talk: The Way You Talk to Yourself Matters
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. -HENRY FORD There’s a Native American Story called the Two Wolves that best captures the power of self talk. The short version goes like this: A grandfather explained to his young grandson that within every person, there are two wolves in a constant […]