Engaging in the art of self-compassion is the practice of honoring yourself through kindness and gratitude for your life and the ripple effect it creates within your life. This gentle and loving awareness begins to create changes in every facet of your life from your …Read More
5 Tips to Improve Your Workplace Environment
Given that most Americans spend the majority of their time in the workplace, it would be helpful if the environment was enjoyable and as a result conducive to our productivity. In fact, many employees would agree that they have stressful jobs and their workplace does …Read More
Secrets for Nurturing and Developing Healthy Relationships
Humans as a species contemplate and pursue happiness. Research has identified healthy relationships as an important part of experiencing a sense of joyful living. Creating and channeling energy toward developing and nurturing healthy relationships is vital to creating a meaningful life. Oftentimes, people do not …Read More
10 Tips to Make Positive Thinking Effortless
Negative thinking results in emotional pain. Negative thoughts drain you of energy and robs you from being in the present moment. The more you engage in negative thinking, the stronger they become. It is similar to adding fuel to the fire. The greater the fire …Read More
Stress Can Contribute to Food Cravings
Stress can play a harmful role in triggering a vicious cycle that creates uncontrollable impulses and an occupation with negative feelings. These negative feelings can become intense and overwhelming that a person struggles with impulse control and may give into the temptation of food cravings …Read More
Enriching Our Lives Through the Practice of Mindfulness
The concept of Mindfulness has become a term of pop culture. The idea of mindfulness is enticing because it entails being in a state of calmness and awareness while the chaos of the world falls before your eyes. Being in a full state of saying …Read More
Pay Close Attention To Your Child’s Mental Health
Mental illness is a broad category of conditions that encompasses various disorders. The most common conditions include anxiety/panic disorders, depression/mood disorders, and attention deficient hyperactivity disorder/attention deficit disorder. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and attention deficit disorder (ADD) symptoms present themselves in childhood and continue …Read More
Multiple Addictions, Relapse and Recovery
Substance abuse and dependence is impacted by many variables. Unfortunately, individuals struggling with addiction encounter numerous issues that may co-exist and compromise recovery. Co-existing addictions/compulsive behaviors such as drugs and alcohol, pathological gambling, sex, food, work, internet and gaming can become chronic and progressive if …Read More
The Key Ingredients to Joyful Living: Acceptance and Surrender
Joyful living or happiness is a concept that individuals desperately desire and sometimes struggle to understand or attain. People convince themselves that once they attain their degree, get their dream job, make their 6 digit income, find their soul-mate, buy their dream home, fit into …Read More
Divorce: And How Common Is It?
Society has long held on to the incorrect belief that half of all first marriages end in divorce. These statistics are based on inaccurate analysis of the marriage and divorce rates per 1,000 people in the United States. A similar incompetent analysis led to the …Read More