Practicing Unsustainable Anxiety – Breaking the Anxiety Cycle
Part of the focus of sustainable living is to create an environment that is able to renew itself. Human beings are wasteful creatures, often using more than they put back and creating materials (chemicals, plastics, etc.) that last forever and hurt both our health and the health of the planet. Sustainable living is both a [...]
Measuring Your Success and Happiness – Listen to Your Complaints
How do we know if we’re successful or happy? It can be hard to determine. Sometimes it takes someone else to give us an undiscovered perspective. And, sometimes it just requires that we use a different measuring stick. Here’s an idea to implement. If you’d like to get insight into your current state of affairs, [...]
Dealing with Anxiety – Posts Revisited
We’re talking about dealing with anxiety for our usual Friday visit to the archives , so it’s all Megan all day. As it turns out, Ms. Murphy is our expert in dealing with anxiety and other emotional challenges that we all face at some point in our life. An approach she recommends for comforting ourselves [...]
Alleviate Anxiety Attacks
Anxiety is a common emotion throughout the world. Everyday issues such as work, attending college, paying bills, and relationships can cause stress and anxiety. Especially when many conflicts begin to build up and the amount of responsibility seems unmanageable. An overwhelming amount of anxiety, or what some people might call a ‘panic attack’, could happen [...]
Comfort Yourself- An Overview of BHALTS
I was in middle school when I began learning how to comfort myself. With the help of a guidance counselor, we came up with an acronym called BHALTS. Firstly, BHALTS stands for: bored, hungry, angry, lonely, tired, and sad. The purpose of BHALTS is to help one pin-point a specific emotion or feeling. Sometimes it’s [...]
Don’t Worry About What You Have No Control Over – But Influence What You Can
Many of us worry about too many things – our jobs, our investments, our health, the environment, and the list goes on and on. Most of it is needless worry and quite useless. I can’t remember anything that was ever created, improved, forestalled or solved simply by worrying about it. To make or fix something, [...]
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