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Mental Health

Mental health is essential to our overall well-being. Ideas and discussion of modern mental health practices and strategies for a healthy relationships and mindset.

Building Empathy to Improve Your Health, Happiness, and Relationships

January 23, 2023 by Sam
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Empathy is a factor in humankind’s kindest and most altruistic actions, as well as its darkest and cruelest misdeeds. It can be the difference between a life of warmth and joy and one of cynicism …

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5 Healthy Ways to Manage and Overcome Fear

October 31, 2022 by Sam
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Why is it that we teach children how to overcome fear from an early age yet spend much of our adult lives struggling to cope with our own? Of course, a healthy person will naturally …

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Categories Learning and Growth, Mental Health

17 Strategies for Managing Stress When You Are Burning Out at Work

October 20, 2022August 3, 2022 by Amanda Kay
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There is no question that our jobs are a significant source of stress in our lives. Even the best jobs can be frustrating, overwhelming, and sometimes dangerous. Although we can’t avoid stress in our lives …

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Categories Career, Mental Health

Emotional Labor: 4 Tips for Sharing the Mental Load

October 20, 2022July 1, 2022 by Sam
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Have you ever felt, much like Jennifer Aniston’s character in The Breakup, that you didn’t just want your partner to do the dishes; you wanted them to want to do the dishes? If so, you …

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WFH Burnout: 6 Mental Health Tips for Remote Workers

December 27, 2022October 6, 2021 by Sam
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There are many for whom the global shift toward remote work in the last few years has been the gift of a lifetime. A minimal commute, more time with family, and a lower-pressure work environment …

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Feeding the Feed: Rebuilding What We Consume Online

October 20, 2022September 22, 2021 by Sam
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I am a millennial, a homebody, and (let’s be honest) a bit of a nerd. I spend a lot of time at my computer, and I consume a lot of content online. Despite what some …

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Why You Really Should Judge People

December 5, 2022August 27, 2021 by Sam
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One of my great joys as a self-help writer is to take a classic life advice cliche and pick a fight with it. These ideas have meaning and value, and there’s usually a good reason …

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“There’s Always a Bench” – On Rituals

October 20, 2022July 23, 2021 by Sam
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My wife and I have this little saying: “There’s always a bench.” When we find ourselves in a new place, or in the middle of a particularly impactful moment, we like to point out to …

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5 Things Great Listeners Actually Do

October 20, 2022June 23, 2021 by Sam
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It’s no secret that good listening is one of the most valuable (and underdeveloped) tools in human relationships. Of course, we all know it’s inappropriate to suck up all the air in the room and …

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Toxic Positivity: How Shallow Optimism Causes Deep Harm

October 20, 2022December 31, 2020 by Sam
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What comes to mind when you think of optimism or positive thinking? Most likely, your mind doesn’t leap toward terms like toxicity, gaslighting, or invalidation. That’s probably for the best, but there is an overlap …

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Categories Mental Health, Positive Thinking
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