Ten Saboteurs that Prevent Your Happiness and Success
Self-sabotage involves a negative mindset that may reduce your motivation, hinder your chances for success and happiness, and prevent you from reaching your potentials in all aspects of life. Negative beliefs about your abilities, intelligence, and traits can lead to low self-esteem and impair your mental health. Self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors stem from our childhood […]
Read more...The Benefits of Journaling for Self-Discovery
Many of us used to practice journaling as teenagers, using our journals and diaries as an outlet and a place to store our deepest thoughts, feelings, and secrets. Studies show various therapeutic benefits of journaling, so there is an excellent reason to reintroduce this practice into your life. The Benefits of Journaling to Achieve Self-Discovery […]
Read more...30 Powerful Affirmations for Self-Growth
Affirmations can be a powerful tool to boost self-esteem, improve mood, overcome negative thoughts that trigger anxiety, and promote self-growth. They can help you cope with stress by increasing your resilience. But what are affirmations, and what makes them so powerful? Affirmations are positive statements about yourself that promote self-acceptance and self-love. Studies show that […]
Read more...7 Ways to Stop Overthinking Everything in Your Life
How often do you catch yourself dwelling on your past or chewing over your problems and dilemmas? Many of us spend most of our waking hours thinking, analyzing, and worrying about issues at work, health concerns, or relationship problems. When we spend too much time thinking about upsetting topics, we often end up stressed out, […]
Read more...Why Setting Boundaries Is Important For Your Health
Setting healthy and clear boundaries in your life is essential for self-care and well-being. Boundaries involve clear borders between other people and us or space between us and our day-to-day experiences. They help establish our identity, differentiate our individuality, and help us indicate what we will and will not hold ourselves accountable for. Boundaries we […]
Read more...How to Communicate with an Avoidant Partner: 10 Proven Techniques
Avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) is a behavior pattern that revolves around feelings of inadequacy and social inhibition. Persons with avoidant personality disorder are timid, sensitive to rejection and criticism, and prone to social anxiety disorder. In relationships, avoidant individuals may be emotionally distanced and withdrawn, creating communication problems and causing their partners to feel unloved, […]
Read more...Five Powerful Ways to Recover from Breakup Trauma
Breakups are an integral part of life. Almost everyone was dumped by someone they were still in love with or broke up with someone who was still in love with them. But the fact that breakups are commonplace in human relationships doesn’t make them any less painful. We tangle our dreams, feelings, goals, plans, and […]
Read more...What Causes Anxiety Disorder & How Can We Improve It?
Anxiety is usually described as a feeling of generalized discomfort and uneasiness. It occurs as our emotional, cognitive, and physical response to supposed threats that may or may not happen in real life. It is normal to experience feelings of worry, fear, and apprehension now and then. In stressful situations, anxiety occurs as a natural […]
Read more...Why Smart, Successful Women Fall for Toxic Men
How many times have you seen an intelligent, beautiful, and accomplished woman married or in a relationship with a man who doesn’t treat her well? Maybe you are that woman? Although it can be beyond belief to their family and close friends (and even to the women themselves), it is not unusual that intelligent, successful […]
Read more...5 Different Types of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders involve complex psychological conditions that cause an unhealthy attitude to food and harmful eating habits. Eating disorders usually start with focusing too much on food, body weight, and body shape. They can involve: Eating too little (anorexia nervosa) Overeating (bulimia nervosa) Losing control of eating (binge eating) Compulsive exercising (exercise bulimia) Other eating […]
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