How To Challenge Automatic Negative Thoughts

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The last blog post covered cognitive distortions and how these can hold you back. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to challenge these automatic negative beliefs. Have you ever thought about how much time you spend replaying negative events in the past, focusing on parts of your life that you don’t like or worrying […]

Don’t Let Your Negative Beliefs Limit You And Hurt Your Self Esteem

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The National Science Foundation estimates that humans have approximately 60,000 thoughts per day. Most of those thoughts occur automatically. You don’t think about them. But, they involve judging and narrating the world around you. Not only do you think about the world around you, but you also think about yourselfoften. Depending on what kind of thoughts you […]

5 Ways to Practice Self-Care This Holiday Season

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It’s beginning to feel a lot like … a super stressful and demanding holiday season. It’s that time of year. Even though it seems to start earlier and earlier each year, the real holiday stress takes hold right around Thanksgiving and doesn’t ease up until the New Year. With this frenzy comes the very familiar […]

Trending: Mental Health and Self-Awareness

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There’s a lot of buzz about mental health as of late: influencers are sharing their personal struggles to normalize mental health, the news is highlighting the recent suicides of celebrities, and there are more and more apps to help with mindfulness and even provide virtual therapy services. But it’s not just a trend. Anyone who […]

DISCOVER HOW TO FIX BACK TO SCHOOL ANXIETY

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When I was a kid there were three words that I dreaded to hear every August… back to school.  They were the bane of my existence. It was the anthem that signaled the end of freedom, the end of vacation, then end of my summer. Every advertisement was framed in this artificial excitement for going […]