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How to Stop Worrying
Are you plagued by constant worries and anxious thoughts? These tips can help calm your worried mind and ease anxiety.

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10 min read


Conflict Resolution Skills
Whatever the cause of disagreements and disputes, by learning these skills, you can keep your personal and professional relationships strong

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8 min read


Smartphone Addiction
When you spend more time on social media or playing games than you do interacting with real people, or you can’t stop yourself from repeated

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12 min read


Laughter is the Best Medicine
Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humor lightens your burdens....

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10 min read


Eight Ways to Bring Mindfulness into Your Family
Research has found that having a sense of mindfulness, or the ability to be present and think before reacting, can provide children......

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4 min read


Managing the Seemingly Inevitable Holiday Season Stress
While this season is meant to bring feelings of love and cheer, it’s also the harbinger of holiday stress for many. In fact, according to...

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5 min read


The Gut-Brain Axis: The Missing Link in Mental Health
Have you ever wondered why so many expressions like “butterflies in my stomach” or “I have a gut feeling” involve our stomachs and brains?

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6 min read


The Importance of ADHD Awareness
Undiagnosed, untreated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can wreak havoc on your life, and it can also impact your loved ones.

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4 min read


When You Should Take a Mental Health Day
Everyone has to deal with varying levels of stress. This can be particularly difficult to manage if you also have symptoms of depression...

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5 min read


8 Signs There Is a Toxic Person in Your Life
We all do our best to avoid toxic people, but sometimes they worm their way into our lives without us noticing it. We ignore or choose....

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4 min read


What Is Dysphoria?
While euphoria is used to describe a state of extreme happiness, dysphoria is the opposite-it’s a profound sense of unease or dissatisfactio

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The Difference Between Compulsive and Impulsive Shopping
Hitting the shops, looking for a bargain and buying things that are aesthetically pleasing may be considered a benign retail therapy

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3 min read


How to Tell If You Are Addicted to Work
As we are all affected by the shifting economy, many of us are working harder than ever before and feeling overworked as a result.

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3 min read


10 Strategies to Boost Your Cognitive Health and Fight Brain Aging
Many older people are surprised to learn that there are common risk factors between heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

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4 min read


How to Help Your Kid Handle Scary News
Frightening events happen in the world every day, and grappling with them is hard for all of us. Dawn Huebner, Ph.D.,

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What Kids Learn from Your Marriage
By Jenna McCarthy Those little eyes and ears are picking up everything. Do you like what you and your husband are teaching? ...

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Healthy Eating helps keep your Brain Sharp
What you put in your stomach now affects your brain later – including your ability to think, remember and process information.

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Simple Tricks to Exercise Your Brain
Your brain's fitness depends on how much it is used. Every time you do something new or different, you create new neural pathways.

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Anger Management: Is your temper hijacking your life?
Anger is a normal, healthy emotion, neither good nor bad. Like any emotion, it conveys a message, telling you that a situation is upsetting,

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11 min read


Addiction, Physical Dependence, and Tolerance to Pain Medication
There is a difference between addiction, physical dependence, and tolerance to pain medication. It is imperative that each of us understand

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4 min read
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