By Bella Reilly For bereaved partners, adult children, and close friends trying to keep daily life moving after a death, the emotional challenges of grief can arrive in sharp, unpredictable waves. Coping with loss often means carrying shock, guilt, anger, numbness, or longing while the world … [Read more...] about Finding Calm Through Mindfulness When Facing Grief and Loss
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Your Home Is Either Helping You Heal or Slowly Draining You. Here’s How to Fix That
By Holli Richardson You probably don't think about it much, but your home is doing something to you every single day. The flickering bulb you keep meaning to replace, the bathroom with zero airflow, the living room that somehow always feels chaotic even after you clean it. All of that … [Read more...] about Your Home Is Either Helping You Heal or Slowly Draining You. Here’s How to Fix That
How Parental Anxiety Shapes a Child’s World
By Amber Speck www.writeaboutrecovery.com You do not always see it coming. It starts with a child hesitating at the classroom door or fidgeting through a playdate that used to feel easy. Parents, often so focused on smoothing the road ahead, sometimes miss the way their own unease spills into the … [Read more...] about How Parental Anxiety Shapes a Child’s World
Discover Interoception, your Powerful Sixth Sense
When asked “How many senses do you have?,” you’d probably answer: smell, taste, sight, touch, and sound. And you would be right… to sense our external environment. But, we also have interoception to sense internal phenomena like experiencing hunger, pain, fever, heart palpitations, stomach … [Read more...] about Discover Interoception, your Powerful Sixth Sense
Wellbeing: The Real Key to Happiness
The pursuit of happiness is part of the human condition. We're constantly buying things in the hopes that they will make us happy. Or we're pursuing new experiences in the hope that they will make us happy. But the joy we get from them is often short-lived. To understand why happiness seems so … [Read more...] about Wellbeing: The Real Key to Happiness
The Parasympathetic Nervous System: Your Stairway to Heaven
Our nervous system is overwhelmed by experiences and thoughts from an increasingly hectic environment. At work, we’re expected to do more with less resources – and often less pay. At home, we don’t get any reprieve, modern technology has invaded our sanctuaries with smart devices everywhere. It’s no … [Read more...] about The Parasympathetic Nervous System: Your Stairway to Heaven
