How To Deal With Negative Emotions In a Healthy Way

See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge ~ Eckhart Tolle

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How To Use Writing To Heal: 5 Stages To Writing and Healing Your Grief

Looking for ways to overcome grief? Writing can be an effective tool in healing.There are five stages to writing and healing. These stages can lead to story transformation…

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How To Use the STOP Technique To Cope With Strong Emotions That Arise Suddenly

Meditation and journaling are ideal for calm moments of reflection. However, what do you do in heated moments? Sometimes, strong emotions arise suddenly and we don’t know how to handle them. We can get swept up in our emotions and react and behave inappropriately. Or we may deny our emotions entirely; try to suppress an emotion we fear, such as anger; or mislabel our feelings…

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15+ Proven Tips and Powerful Exercises on How To Love Yourself When You Don’t Know How To Be Loved

“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” ~ Stacey Charter

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10 Effective Anxiety Management Techniques To Cope With Your Difficult Family and Thrive in Any Family Situation

Here are ten anxiety-management techniques that are well worth trying. Please practice all of these to discern which ones work best for you:…

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How To Dissolve Your Fears Through Acceptance [Step-by-Step Exercises + Action Steps To Overcome Your Fears During Pregnancy]

Fear can be a catalyst for growth only when it is acknowledged and accepted, then shown the door. When it becomes a festering guest it begins swallowing up your reserves of health, happiness, and sanity, sticking you in a “what-if” paralysis. The oftentimes-false illusions that give birth to fear (e.g., a misconception that your body doesn’t know how to build and birth a baby) are frequently left unchecked in the vulnerable heart, mind, and body of the pregnant mama…

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50+ Experts Share Powerful Tips, Techniques & Rituals To Practice Self-Love

“Accept yourself. Love yourself as you are. Your finest work, your best movements, your joy, peace, and healing comes when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self-love. Roll in it. Bask in it as you would sunshine.” ~ Melodie Beattie

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25 Experts Share Amazingly Effective Strategies on How To Love Your Body Just the Way It Is

“It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.” ~ Pema Chodron

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10+ Eye-Opening and Inspiring Strategies To Silence Your Inner Critic

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll

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How To Forgive Your Partner Even When He/She Is Not Sorry [Shifting Mindsets + Insightful Exercises]

“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat……Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established…” ~ William Paul Young

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