Cultivating Mindfulness to Help Reduce Anxiety
Anxiety can be exhausting and impacts on your emotional and [...]
7 Ways to Support your Partner Who is Suffering from Anxiety
When your partner is suffering from anxiety it can have an impact on you and your relationship. Living with someone who suffers from anxiety can be challenging and the process takes time and patience.
5 Tips to Improve Resiliency and Endure Anxiety
Resilience means being able to adapt to life’s stressors, misfortunes and challenges. Some people don’t respond well to stress and feel overwhelmed turning to alcohol, substance abuse and other unhealthy coping mechanisms. When you are resilient you are able to access your inner strength that helps you recover from a setback or adversity in your life.
Six Common Thinking Errors and How to Manage Them
Thinking errors are irrational patterns of thinking that impair judgment and cause you to feel stressed and anxious. To break this unhealthy cycle, you need to learn how to identify your thinking errors and challenge them with logical and rational self talk. Our self-talk guides us on our perspective on life and the way we interact with others.
ABC Model: Useful Strategies for Managing Anxiety
One of the best ways of understanding stress and preventing anxiety is to look at a model of emotional distress elaborated by psychologist Albert Ellis. He calls his model the ABC model, and it’s as simple as it sounds:
An Effective Exercise to Manage and Control Anxiety
Learning how to relax your body and using the power of self talk can be a helpful part of working through anxiety symptoms. It’s important to tune into your body and mind and regularly practice exercises to help you learn to relax and stay in control of your anxiety.
8 Things Only People With Anxiety Understand
The HuffPost article 8 Things Only People With Anxiety Understand [...]
9 Tips to Overcome Challenges during the Holidays
The holiday season can be a time of joy and togetherness but it can also be a time of stress, conflict and family tension. If you want to avoid conflicts in your relationship, here are 9 tips to overcome challenges during the holidays.
I Can’t Stop Obsessing
This week Amanda asked about how she can stop obsessing about her ex-boyfriend, who she found out was cheating on her. She realizes that she needs to move on but can’t as she is constantly thinking about him and the woman he cheated on her with. She expressed rage towards them particularly, because he left her for the other woman. She requested help with trying to get rid of these obsessive thoughts.