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Is Your Self-Esteem Safe on Social Media?

I know you’ve been there…browsing through your Facebook Feed, staring at everyone else’s picture-perfect life, and feeling more and more like a discarded booger stuck to the bedroom wall of a 7 year-old boy (umm…let’s move on). What about this one: You’re having a shower, and the funniest anecdote enters your mind. You can barely […]

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On Being Imperfect (and other acts of courage)

You might see your imperfections as an unfortunate circumstance of your life – something you should rise beyond, overcome, or try to control. You might even see them as a personal failure, or a reminder that you need to work harder, longer, or better. But being IMPERFECT takes skill. It takes patience, practice and especially courage. Anyone

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6 Simple Mind-Control Techniques Used By Olympic Athletes To Increase Performance

Have you been following the Olympics? Aren’t those athletes awe inspiring? The thing that strikes me the most, aside from the athletes’ outstanding physical strength is their extra-ordinary ability to focus their mind (especially under such stressful conditions). Wouldn’t you love to be able to focus your mind on a task so completely, and effortlessly?

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How Happy Are You? Personality Quiz + Tips

This Personality Quiz is based on the PERMA model for Happiness, created by Dr. Martin Seligman – one of the founders of Positive Psychology. According to the PERMA model, Happiness is made up of 5 parts: Positive Emotions, Engagement/Flow, Positive Relationships, Meaning, and Achievement/Accomplishment. Complete the quiz for Tips on increasing your Happiness. You can

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8 Life Truths As Told By a Psychotherapist

Psychotherapists have a unique window into the ‘behind the scenes’ of life. Here are 8 life-truths that form the foundation of our existence: We are social beings. Relationships are the cornerstone of our existence, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Every learning occurs within the framework of relationship. We get wounded

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A Two-Minute Technique For Changing a Bad Feeling

Feelings are our body’s way of letting us know that there is something going on that we should pay attention to. Especially when the same feeling keeps rearing its emotional head, it may be a good idea to get to the bottom of it. But feelings are also electrical currents passing through our body’s nervous

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A Key To Your Subconscious – 5 minute technique

Imagine that there was something that influenced every move you make, but you had no control over it – Would you want to know more about it? Our subconscious is that part of our mind that is out of our awareness (what we know) but has a huge influence on our opinions, our choices, and our actions.

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Can’t Control Your Emotions? Try the Container Technique

Say you had a major fight with your partner just as you were walking out the door on your way to work. You drive to your office rehearsing all the things you should have said, feeling the anger grow, and expand. Finally, you arrive at work, collapse into your chair and can feel all that energizing,

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