Putting yourself first can be easier said than done. It isn’t about being selfish and neglecting others in your life. It is about making the right choices to help you be able to do what you need to do. After all, you can’t keep putting everyone and everything else first if you have nothing left […]
Self-improvement
3 Healthy Lifestyle Changes to Consider This Year
There are loads of ways to be healthy. In reality, healthiness comes down to a series of lifestyle choices that you make. You could choose to get up off the couch and go to the gym, or you could choose to carry on binging Netflix for the next fourteen hours.
Say Au Revoir to Anxiety
Although it’s pretty normal to feel anxious from time to time – especially if a big life change is on the horizon – it is not normal to feel anxious all of the time, nor is it normal to feel anxious about relatively normal things like seeing friends or taking the subway.
5 Ways to Ensure You’re Entering 2020 Happy
With 2020 just a few days away, it’s time to start thinking about how you’re going to make it your best year yet. Although there is often a lot of pressure when it comes to having an incredible year, there are lots of lots of ways you can ensure this happens.
Yes, You Can Be Too Positive, and It’s Bad for You
How many times have you heard phrases like “just be positive!’ or “well, just try to see it from a positive angle!” and variations of thereof? Those grate, don’t they?
When Life Gets Stressful, Have Some Fun
Everyone gets stressed; that’s just a fact of life. The problem a lot of people have, though, is that they allow this stress to consume their lives. Instead of taking control of the stress, they let it control them, and then they wonder why they’re so miserable all the time.
Looking Within Yourself: The 5 Keys to Emotional Recovery
In life, we experience various sorts of distress, physical, mental, and emotional. And when we look at emotional stress, from issues like anxiety, obsessions, compulsions, or addiction, the act of recovering from it is a long road. When we look at the act of healing, especially in an emotional sense, we have to understand the […]
A View on Self-Worth and Societal Norms
People struggle with how they view themselves. Is it through the lens of societal expectations? Is it through the lens of personal worth and self-satisfaction?
Alternative Depression Treatments (For Those That Don’t Want to Take Antidepressants)
Depression, whether people admit it or not seems to be commonplace now. Whether it’s due to a lack of Vitamin D or stresses in an individual’s life, it seems that people go to the doctors for depressive symptoms, they are automatically offered antidepressants. And while all this can work wonders for some, for others it […]
10 Ways to Look After Your Mental Health
One of the hardest things to do as an adult is looking after your mental health. Although you will have a lot of things on your mind, your mental health should be your main priority if you want to live a healthy lifestyle. From practising self-care to knowing when to speak to a professional, you […]