Illuminating Hope: Understanding and Supporting PTSD
June is PTSD Awareness Month, a time dedicated to spreading awareness, understanding, and support for those affected by Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This condition is often associated with veterans because of what they saw and experienced while they served our country. But, It can affect anyone who has experienced a traumatic event or witnessed a traumatic event.
Negative Self-Talk and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Self-Thoughts to Reduce Anxiety
Navigating Mental Illness in Marriage: Tips for Building Resilience Together
Marriage is often seen as a journey filled with love, companionship, and shared dreams. However, the reality is that every relationship faces its own set of challenges, and for some couples, navigating the complexities of mental illness can add an extra layer of difficulty.
Toxic Mirror
Social media is particularly harmful to body image because the content encourages unrealistic and narrowly defined beauty standards, and it suggests that achieving the perfect appearance is key to self-worth.
If you feel exhausted from striving to achieve an ideal body type that’s simply unattainable, or if you feel ashamed because you have a particular body type, there are some things you can do!
Here are a few ways to eliminate the toxicity in your social media use and start building a positive body image.
Stop Making This Big Mistake When You Feel Strong Emotions…and Do This Instead.
Taking responsibility of our emotions empowers us and gives us control over our lives. Recognizing this responsibility frees us to discover more about ourselves and heal from old wounds by seeing where our triggers come from. We see choices we can make in relationships and frees us to express ourselves.
Your Thoughts Matter
My thoughts were very negative. This type of anxiety comes through the cortex pathway of the brain to the amygdala.
The cortex is where we have thoughts, imagine, think logically and make plans.
How and Why our Brain Causes Anxiety
Although the amygdala is small, it has a huge responsibility in our survival. It’s there to cause the alarm to help protect us, and it’s the source of many of our emotional reactions - both positive and negative. It automatically activates the fight, flight or freeze response. We can’t control when the amygdala is activated. However, once we are aware it is, we can work to calm it down and get ourselves under control.
Is it Fear or Anxiety?
Knowing the difference between fear and anxiety helps us take the necessary action to overcome it, recover and move forward. Here are some tips to help.
Getting Back to Normal - 7 Tips to Feel Less Stressed Today
It’s tough getting back to a normal routine. Here are some tips to help feel invigorated.