Category: Emotions

45 Life Lessons Written by a “90-Year-Old” Woman That’ll Put Everything Into Perspective:
Regina Brett knows a thing or two about handling life’s many curveballs. The author wrote down 50 life lessons the night before her 45th birthday after being diagnosed with breast cancer and turned them into a bestselling book, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons For Life’s Little Detours. In the decade si …

5 uplifting activities to help improve your mental health while you’re social distancing, according to a psychotherapist:
Weeks into social-distancing and isolation, your mental health might be taking a toll. Try these 5 uplifting activities to improve your mental health.

How to Cultivate Resilience During the Pandemic:
Living in the pandemic means not knowing what the next day will bring, and not knowing how or when it will all end, and whether or not our loved ones will make it through safely. Getting through the pandemic requires cultivating resilience, which is the ability to mentally and emotionally cope with a crisis.

4 Steps To Practicing Self-Love Through Facing Your Emotions:
Practicing self-love is one of the most difficult things to do, but it’s something you need to learn for the sake of your mental health. Here are 4

How to Mitigate the Potentially Damaging Psychological Consequences of Being an Entrepreneur:
How to spot signs of emotional and psychological damage and prevent burnout from happening.

How To Stay Sane In Uncertain Times:
What should we do in the middle of this crisis? We need to accept what we can control, and accept what we can not control. What can we control? This post includes a list of things that will help keep us grounded as the world feels like it is spinning more and more out of control.

In these uncertain times, validation is the best way to support loved ones:
Words of validation were found to be much more effective than efforts to change an individual’s mind regarding a situation or discredit their feelings.

How To Manage Depression And Anxiety In Frightening Times:
Depression and anxiety can increase in crisis times like these, but there are doable, practical steps you can take today to support your overall health and well-being.

10 Virtual Therapy and Mental Health Apps to Cope With Coronavirus Stress:
You can take care of your mind, even if you can’t leave the house.

What is self-care? Understanding how to look after yourself mentally, physically and socially:
Now is the time to really embrace self-care, but do you truly understand what it means?

Be Happy: Top 10 Toxic Things To Remove From Your Life:
You are what you eat. Everyone knows the wisdom behind the old adage: put good things into your body and your health with flourish. Fill up with junk and your body will break down. The same logic that applies to your nutrition also applies to your mental health. If you have toxic influences and bad habits, you are not going to be happy. We made a list of toxic things that are dragging down your happiness. Harmful friendships Humans mimic the actions of each other and pick up each other’s habits.

Self-compassion is the simple approach to happiness we could all benefit from:
Because being kind to yourself has a bigger impact than you might think.

How your perception is your reality, according to psychologists:
Past experiences greatly influence how you see the world.

A psychologist’s advice on how to care for your mental health in a pandemic:
Keep calm, wash you hands, and have a (rational) plan.

How emotional regulation can make you happier everyday – the therapist’s guide:
Everyone is talking about emotional regulation as the new therapy. Here’s a guide to help you learn this life-changing idea

Writing Out Your Worries Really Works Wonders
As much as people often love to talk about their feelings, it might be more productive to skip the conversations and write about your worries instead, according to research done at Michigan State University (MSU).

How to make hypersensitivity your strongest skill at work
When you’re conscientious and driven, it’s natural to think deeply about situations. However, for many people—especially highly sensitive people, or HSPs—contemplation can quickly trend toward overthinking, and just as quickly, turn into paralyzing anxiety and stress that blocks your productivity and creativity.

How to identify (and handle) your emotional triggers before they cause real harm
Your loved ones likely just want to help.

Self-sabotage: there’s a psychological reason why we get in the way of our own success
There’s an innate reason why we sometimes become our own worst enemy.

Soft Skills Deliver Hard Bottom-Line Results For Companies Like Lexus, UPIC Health And Google
To deliver better business performance and the best customer experiences forget about the hard numbers and focus on the softer side of business to keep employees happy — by building connectivity and trust with empathy. This post is the seventh in a series exploring H.A.P.P.I.N.E.S.S. in business

This 60 Second Habit Has Helped Put Me In a Better, More Productive Mood Each Morning
This 60 Second Habit Has Helped Put Me In a Better, More Productive Mood Each Morning