well-being

Beyond Feeling Grateful: How to Practice Gratitude Through Action

Beyond Feeling Grateful: How to Practice Gratitude Through Action

How Practicing Gratitude Helps Mental Health Practicing gratitude can help relieve stress, anxiety, depression, and angst by prioritizing our focus on what really matters.  It’s so easy to lose track of what’s good in our lives. We’re wired to look at things with a negative perspective. We’re drawn to what’s…

When Caring for Others Becomes Unhealthy

When Caring for Others Becomes Unhealthy

It’s common for people to put everyone else’s needs before their own. We’re raised in a society where the M.O. is being nurturers, caring for others, and putting your own needs aside. And this is especially the case for women. Being selfless is a great quality, but there also has…

12 Tips to Establish and Maintain a Healthy Work-Life Balance

12 Tips to Establish and Maintain a Healthy Work-Life Balance

Most of us have heard that it is important to have a healthy work-life balance – making sure you do what you need to do to get your work done, but still leave enough time (and energy) for your friends, family, and self.  Sometimes finding that balance is easier said…

How to Build Self-Worth

How to Build Self-Worth

What is Self-Worth? Self-worth is how you view your own value as a person. Do you think you’re valuable as a human being? Do you value yourself as a person separate from how much money you make? Do you respect yourself as a person separate from how others view you?…

What To Do When a Conversation Turns Confrontational

What To Do When a Conversation Turns Confrontational

It’s common for discussions to turn into arguments, but when that happens, the conversation is unlikely to be productive. Knowing how to handle confrontation before things get out of hand can help you and the other person, whether that person is a roommate, sibling, friend, or romantic partner, both express…