How to Start to Organize and Declutter Your Home

Did you know that an organized and decluttered home positively effects your mental wellbeing? A cluttered home may contribute to depression, decreased focus, confusion, and tension. I know after I complete a big organization and decluttering project, I feel really good after I’m done.

What’s behind that good feeling of having everything in it’s place? Read more from VeryWell Mind about the relationship between mental health and cleaning here: verywellmind.com/how-mental-health-and-cleaning-are-connected

Now that we know about the benefits of having an organized and decluttered home, let’s look at tips on how to get started.

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May 16, 2021May 17, 2021

What to do to overcome paralyzing anxiety. 4 easy tips.

Like many things, anxiety is a disorder that only people with anxiety can truly understand. This makes it hard for others to empathize with you, because they have not experienced it themselves. It also means a lot of common misconceptions get thrown around.

There are some things that are often said about anxiety that are simply not true. It helps to understand them when you are on the path to improving your own emotional health, or you when you know someone else is struggling with anxiety. Learn 4 easy tips to implement to overcome paralyzing anxiety.

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March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

6 Reasons Why Gardening Can Make You Feel Better and How To Get Started

Regardless of where your mental “un”wellness comes from, you might currently be looking for a way to relieve the symptoms and live a happy, fulfilling life. Learn why gardening can make you feel better!
Gardening is starting to become one of the most popular activities for people with mental “un”wellness. It is good for your mental wellness for several reasons, from getting you outside to catch some vitamin D from the sun’s UV rays, to having something you care for and watch thrive due to your own efforts. Continue reading to learn how gardening might just be the answer to relieving your symptoms.

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February 28, 2021April 4, 2021

How to Live a Happy Life

This past year certainly has been a challenge to living a happy life. Many people are on the edge. Feeling like things will never change. Our lives have been massively disrupted. These changes affect your happiness. Read on to find out what happiness is, what to do to achieve happiness, how being happy affects your health, and what not to do in your quest for happiness. Let’s look at the what and how-to’s of living a happy life.

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January 12, 2020January 16, 2020

Losing a Parent as an Adult Child: 6 Ways to Help Someone in Mourning

Grief

An adult child that loses a parent is bound to experience grief. Grief is defined as a multifaceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grief

Grief is complex. Grief is raw. No two people will experience grief the same. Grief has no duration. There is no end date for grief. I am in the midst of this now. My mom, my rock, passed on January 6^th after a 16-week fight for her life. It is not even a week yet and I know and recognize I have a long road of healing ahead of me. I am forever changed.

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June 3, 2018January 16, 2020

What happens to your brain when you laugh daily?

Daily laughter benefits your brain

You’ve likely heard it more times than you can remember- laughter is the best medicine. This is true in many respects, as laughter can bring about meaningful neurochemical and physiological changes that can benefit the body. In particular, laughter can improve brain health, and help manage many “silent” disorders, not easily observed by medical practitioners, or society as a whole.

Interested in knowing what a little more laughter can do for your health and what happens to your brain when you laugh daily? Then read on below and find out!

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May 27, 2018January 16, 2020

6 Amazing Benefits of Learning to Love Yourself

Love Yourself

No matter how much the hardest among us deny this – we all have a desire to be loved. Often, it’s a romantic love that we crave. We are caught up in our loneliness and it’s normal to have a want for companionship. Romance isn’t everyone’s struggle or want – it may be a familial want or a platonic friendship. For some it may be a combination of all of these.

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May 20, 2018February 5, 2021

5 tips to overcome paralyzing panic attacks

May is Mental Health Awareness month. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 4.7% of adults experience panic disorder at some point in their lives. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/panic-disorder.shtml

This isn’t a high percentage, but having personally experience anxiety and an ER trip in my life, anxiety and panic are not fun to live with. It can be debilitating living with anxiety and panic. Discover 5 tips to overcome paralyzing panic attacks.

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May 13, 2018January 16, 2020

How to Find Peace and Balance by stopping procrastination

Living a Chaotic Life

Many people in our society lead chaotic lives. Is it work/life balance? The inability to manage stress and emotions? Lack of peace within yourself? Turbulent relationships? Procrastination? Unruly kids? Lack of time management? Lack of happiness and joy? Too many things on your plate?

These questions are something to ask yourself if you find your life spiraling out of control.

Life should not be a chaotic situation because we only have one life, which is meant for peace, love, enjoyment, productivity and abundance.

The problem is, we accept the craziness of everyday life without realizing how detrimental it is to our overall health.

The sooner we can understand how valuable a healthy and balanced life is, the sooner we can appreciate it too.

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May 6, 2018February 5, 2021

5 Tips To Increase Your Self-Esteem

Having high self-esteem can be one of the greatest things in the world. However, if you don’t have high self-esteem, you may find that you’re struggling in areas like your social and work life. Here are five tips for you to increase your self-esteem.

Take a Self-Esteem Inventory

For many people self-esteem is an elusive quality. But often self-esteem issues can be narrowed down. Take a self-esteem inventory. Continue reading “5 Tips To Increase Your Self-Esteem”

Category: Emotional/Mind Wellness