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Assessing Your Comfort Zone… Do You Need A Change or Do You Need To Change?

Assessing Your Comfort Zone… Do You Need A Change or Do You Need To Change?

Many people experience anxiety at the thought of trying something new outside their comfort zone, so we often stay in a place a lot longer than we should. Let’s discuss how you might know if it’s time to change your status quo and why it’s so dang hard to make those determinations and act on them. What is a comfort zone? When you’ve been in a place like a job...
How To Get Over a Crush & Move On With Mindfulness

How To Get Over a Crush & Move On With Mindfulness

Just like the stories in our social feeds, some things are just meant to be temporary. They say relationships are either a reason, a season, or a lifetime – so if it’s not a lifetime, find the reason or season to grow from it and move on. Here are a few tips on how to get over a crush and grow from the insights that relationship provided you…   You can start by...
What To Do When Your Partner Has Depression

What To Do When Your Partner Has Depression

Relationships are already complex, and loving someone with depression can make them that much harder.   The first step for dealing with a partner who may be experiencing depression is to recognize what it might manifest as… Depression can affect sleep and energy levels, appetite, and mood. You may find your significant other sleeping too much or eating too much or...
Reconnect In Your Relationship Using Effective Communication

Reconnect In Your Relationship Using Effective Communication

The resentment you’ve been carrying is about to boil over! As your hands submerge in the dishwater, your chest fills with hot anger, and your face flushes. How many times this week will it all fall to you? You do so much every day – getting through work, trudging through errands and chores, ensuring everyone around you is safe, secure, and relatively happy...
Ways to Identify, Manage, & Express Your Anger

Ways to Identify, Manage, & Express Your Anger

Have you ever forgotten to turn on your blinker when changing lanes? Then you glance at the driver you moved in front of, and you see they are flying off the handle… completely enraged with hand gestures and horns, etc. Well, this is not really about your blinker. Anger is a completely natural emotion to have and express if and when needed, however, sometimes we...