Managing Your Emotional Triggers

Managing Your Emotional Triggers

Emotional triggers always stir up our own emotional response. Something occurs, you react, and then your brain instantly concocts a reason for your reaction that seems to justify your behavior even if the reason makes no sense. What is an Emotional Trigger? Triggers...

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Training Your Negative Thoughts

Training Your Negative Thoughts

Most of us live with a constant stream of internal statements, criticisms, and commands running through our heads. But we have a choice: We don’t have to let them define us — or our days. When we’re worried or dissatisfied, most of us will do anything not to feel...

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Know Yourself- Practice Self-Awareness

Know Yourself- Practice Self-Awareness

In order to live a successful life and meet your full potential, you will need to develop the ability to be self-aware. But what does self-awareness mean? At its core, being self-aware means that you can understand why you feel the way you do and make decisions that...

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Training Your Self-Discipline Muscle

Training Your Self-Discipline Muscle

Becoming a master of self-discipline is difficult. I mean, even becoming a self-discipline apprentice is hard! In fact, knowing more about self-discipline is an age-old study. Psychologists have delved into people's mental state, upbringing, current circumstances, and...

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Want to Improve Your Self Confidence?

Want to Improve Your Self Confidence?

Self Confidence; very closely connected to your self-esteem is your opinion about yourself and your abilities. It can be high, low, or somewhere in-between. While everyone occasionally has doubts about themselves, low self-esteem can leave you feeling insecure and...

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How to motivate yourself when feeling low?

How to motivate yourself when feeling low?

Motivating yourself is hard. Trying to sustain your drive through a task, a project, or even a career can sometimes feel like pulling yourself out of a swamp by your own hair. We seem to have a natural aversion to the persistent effort that no amount of caffeine or...

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Heal Yourself with Deep Breathing

Heal Yourself with Deep Breathing

Inhale. Exhale. We do this all day, every day without a thought. Ask yourself this- when was the last time you took a deep breath? Probably not as frequently as you think. I would venture to say only a few times a day. But did you know that deep breathing is one of...

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Striking the Balance – Giving Vs. Receiving

Striking the Balance – Giving Vs. Receiving

Every relationship has outflow and inflow. A give and take. Just as in nature, there is a constant circulation of energy coming in and going out. Throughout history, we have always seen the act of giving as strong, brave, and righteous and the act of receiving as...

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Time to Say Your No’s – Set Healthy Boundaries!

Time to Say Your No’s – Set Healthy Boundaries!

Boundaries include physical boundaries, as well as, emotional boundaries. Physical boundaries include your body, personal space, and privacy. Violations include standing too close, inappropriate touching, even looking through your personal files or your phone....

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