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Resilience is the ability to return to the healthy version of yourself after experiencing stress or other emotional difficulties. This ability requires being strong, yet flexible. Tough, yet loving. Build up your resilience by witnessing your experiences. Begin by recognizing the major events in your life and your daily experiences while allowing yourself to feel […]

Helping others can be an act of caring and even virtue. There can be times, however, when helping others is actually harmful. Everyone needs to learn from their own mistakes in order to grow. When we help others in order to spare them from a growth experience, we begin fostering an environment that stunts their […]

When did you last set goals for yourself? As children, visualizing our future is a natural and fun exercise. As kids, we visualize ourselves as firemen, teachers, artists, dancers, doctors. As adults with agency, we can set goals for not just our professions, we can plan vacations, take up hobbies, change our living environments, and […]

The streets you drive to work, the way you take your coffee (or tea), where you sit for dinner. Much of our everyday lives consist of patterns. These patterns are adaptations that save us time and quickly bring about results that enrich our lives. Unfortunately, when we repeatedly engage in behaviors designed to protect us […]

Have you ever worked hard to “get your way”? Making sure you get what you want no matter what can often come at a high cost. When getting what we want involves pretending to be someone you’re not, or manipulating others or events, the payment comes from your internal sense of self. Too many of […]

Sometimes emotions that are uncomfortable to feel, such as anger, fear, and grief-serve a great purpose in our lives. Is there any benefit, however, to feeling anxiety? A sudden wash of anxiety may alert us that swift action might be necessary to avoid impending danger. This is a healthy example of how anxiety works to […]

Just seeing the word ‘Rejection’ can elicit a strong emotional response. To some, rejection is often seen as a negative experience. Something that happened to us. That made us feel unwanted or cast aside. Have you ever considered how Rejection is also a power that we can use to improve our own mental, physical, and […]

Happiness is a brief moment of joy. Maybe someone paid you a compliment, or you reached a long-held goal.  There are so many things in life that can bring us happiness. Unfortunately, because it is based on external events, happiness is fleeting. Contentment, on the other hand, is an internal state. And one we should […]