Blog categorized as Emotional Wellness

For a lot of people, this last year has been marked with milestones, both good and bad. I encourage you to sit back for a moment and reflect on all you've learned.

“Every thought creates a physical response.” Just like there are rules in the physical world, like gravity and inertia, that define how things interact and behave, there are rules that define how our minds and bodies interact and behave.

September is Self Care Awareness Month, which makes it a great time to begin focusing on taking care of ourselves. We are very good at taking care of other people, and all too often we neglect to include self care in our everyday lives.

When you are trying to let go of those debilitating emotions, imagine yourself moving them to a different place in your mind and watch what happens in the process. Here’s how.

Encouragement works by anchoring a good feeling to doing something. This drive to feel good can be strong enough to motivate us to do more. When we attach the good feeling to accomplishing something, we want to do it again so that we’ll get the good feeling again.