What Is a Mindfulness Anchor?
Mindfulness is the practice of grounding yourself in the here and now, observing your body and your environment without evaluation or judgment. The goal is to simply be aware of your sensations, your feelings, and your thoughts. Mindfulness can be used to calm yourself down from an anxiety spiral or panic attack, or to push […]
Including Self-Care In Your Daily Routine
It can be hard to take time for yourself, especially when that means setting boundaries and saying no to people you love. But without regularly practicing self-care, you will quickly become burned out and your mental health will suffer. Remember that it isn’t selfish to practice self-care. In fact, most of the time, it’s necessary. […]
Balancing Your Hormones Through Healthy Eating
Your hormones are your body’s busiest chemical messengers. The level and balance of your hormones sends signals to the rest of your body, resulting in serious impacts to both physical and mental health. It’s no secret that hormones can have a great impact on your mood. Anxiety, for instance, can be caused by an imbalance […]
How Your Diet Impacts Your Mental Health
We make a lot of separations between mental health, emotional health, spiritual health, and physical health. This makes the different aspects of your health sound as though they are compartmentalized, but that’s not true. Your health is interconnected, which means your physical health and your mental health often go hand-in-hand. One example of this is […]
How Effective Is Meditation and How To Start Using It
You may have heard friends, family members, coworkers, or even celebrities talk about the ways meditation has changed their lives. Today, there are podcasts, apps, and YouTube videos that can all guide you through meditation as a way of being mindful and grounded in the present. But how effective is meditation? While meditation is not a replacement […]
How to Stop Procrastinating and Conquer your To-Do List
We all do it- watch as the big deadline approaches, our anxiety rising but our bodies not jumping to action. Then, an hour before it’s due, panic takes hold, and you finish your assignment in a caffeine-induced haze. Procrastinating is a widespread problem, with about 20% of adults being chronic procrastinators (source). It’s worse for […]
The Importance of Mindset
Over the last few years, self-care has become a trending topic and almost everyone has had something to say about it. Popular ways we are told to practice self-care are by incorporating mindfulness, giving our bodies exercise, and taking time to do the things that make us happy. These are all great activities to do […]
6 Easy Steps to Cultivate Self-Love and Protect Yourself from Body Dysmorphia
It’s officially spring, which means warmer days are just around the corner. As beautiful as spring is, for many people it also comes with invisible baggage. Tank tops and crop tops are back in fashion, along with shorts and 6-pack abs that if we’re being honest with ourselves are completely unrealistic. Spring is here. Which […]
Getting Started With Mindfulness
Mindfulness has enjoyed a tremendous surge in popularity in the past decade, both in the popular press and in the psychotherapy literature. The practice has moved from a largely obscure Buddhist concept founded about 2,600 years ago to a mainstream practice available at any time on your smartphone. Today, mindfulness can be defined as guided or […]
