Lion's Roar

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Watch your thoughts; they become habits.Watch your habits; they become stories.Watch your stories; they become excuses.Watch your excuses; they become relapses.Watch your relapses; they become dis-eases.Watch your dis-eases; they become vicious cycle

NPR

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Trying to reduce anxiety and stress in 2018? If the idea of meditation makes you want to toss your coffee cup across the room, ABC News anchor Dan Harris offers some advice in his new book.

Lion's Roar

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DAN HARRIS SITS UP STRAIGHT on a beige love seat in his thirteenth-floor office, his hands resting on his lap in the cosmic mudra. It’s a posture that might seem, to some, at odds with his job at ABC News. His slightly graying, impeccably trimmed hai

ELLE Australia

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I love the word self-care. It covers all manner of sins, doesn’t it? Cancelling Friday-night plans at the last minute to stay in. Eating peanut butter straight from the jar. Face masks. Bubble baths. Adding to cart with gleeful abandon. In many ways,

Psychologies

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1 Although it’s not as simple as ‘just turn it off’ or ‘don’t look’, try to be conscious of the platforms you use, how often you use them and what activities or content you engage with online. 2 Try to stay mindful when you use digital media, and r

POPSUGAR

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Whether you follow entertainment, sports, or politics, every headline right now is about one thing and one thing only: the coronavirus. COVID-19 has sickened thousands across the globe, and for those of us who are fortunate enough to be healthy, it h

Chat It's Fate

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Ask Archangel Gabriel to free your spirit Surround yourself with crystal clear light Hear the clear note of truth Dear Michelle, I used to suffer from severe anxiety, but after three years of counselling, I’m much better. However, I can’t relax in

Men's Fitness UK

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“One of the biggest things I learned to work on – which massively improved the broken relationship I had with my body – was to talk to myself in a nicer way. When I stopped asking myself questions like, what’s wrong with me? Why aren’t I as lean as h

Psychologies

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When I was 17, I passed my driving test and got my first speeding ticket a month later. I haven’t got better with age. Just before I started my slow journey, I was thrown out of a speed awareness class for not switching off my phone. Selling my car a

Men's Health Australia

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A regular cold-water shock supports the immune system and triggers endorphins for a feeling of wellbeing. As well as engaging muscles, rock-climbing and bouldering can significantly reduce anxiety by focusing your mind. According to the British Trust

Woman's Day

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Alec Baldwin has fled to Vermont with wife Hilaria and their six kids after the accidental on-set fatal shooting of camerawoman Halyna Hutchins as friends and family worry for his mental wellbeing. One insider tells Woman’s Day Hilaria, 37, fears her

You South Africa

3 min read

Q I’m in a very bad place in my life at the moment. I used to be good at my job and earned a good salary and my husband is a creative and innovative designer who made a lot of money, so we could put our children through university. Two years ago I ha

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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Alec Baldwin has fled to Vermont with wife Hilaria and their six kids after the accidental on-set fatal shooting of camerawoman Halyna Hutchins as friends and family worry for his mental wellbeing. One insider tells Woman’s Day Hilaria, 37, fears her

JOY Magazine

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Susan Botha, a 40-year-old widow from Paarl, lives in a two-bedroom shack with her five children. The shack is in her mother’s garden and consists of one bedroom and a kitchen. Unemployed, with social grants as a source of income, Susan was constantl

Oxygen

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one chilly Canadian night, 27-year-old Tara Cosgrove Pompetti was brutally attacked by her ex-boyfriend. He stabbed her 18 times, puncturing a lung and kidney. She spent three months recovering in a medically induced coma, but even though her physica

The Atlantic

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Editor’s Note: Every Monday, Lori Gottlieb answers questions from readers about their problems, big and small. Have a question? Email her at dear.therapist@theatlantic.com. Dear Therapist, I’m torn between my extended family and my husband. We have

Woman & Home

1 min read

‘It’s understandable that people are incredibly stressed right now,’ says hypnotherapist and author Paul McKenna. ‘But perhaps the most powerful tool is also the simplest – making a daily list of all the things that we appreciate. The benefits includ

The Knot Michigan Weddings Magazine

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A wedding is a loaded event—financially, emotionally and even spiritually—so it’s no wonder there can be a lot of anxiety surrounding both the actual celebration and the idea of marriage itself. There are certainly red flags you should pay attention

Palm Beach Illustrated

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Briah Duncan and her husband, Adly, started Delray Beach–based Selphf as a way to merge self-care and self-love into a harmonious skin care company. They had relatives suffering from skin issues, but also shared a background as mental health therapis

Woman NZ

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Do you ever go to your GP and just feel personally attacked? I went recently to have a chat about going back on antidepressants. I managed to come off them earlier this year, but with lockdowns, a tonne of anxiety, a pretty significant death in the f

TIME

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COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, the field that Naomi Watts’ character Jean Holloway practices on the new Netflix drama Gypsy, is meant to put into place new patterns of thought and behavior in order to break old cycles. No surprise she can’t heal herse

Psychologies

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While there’s no doubt smartphones make it easier to find a partner, mobile phone technology is wreaking havoc on our relationships, say psychotherapists. Experts have concluded that ‘technoference’ – the typical interruptions caused by smartphones t

Horse & Hound

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“WHEN we have a training issue, or our horses are not feeling 100%, we’ll spot the signs and take action, ask for help,” says Sylvia Bruce. “It’s important to apply this to ourselves and our mental health.” Sylvia advises riders to learn their own pe

Psychologies

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My doctor, You helped me understand my mental health problems and worked with me to overcome my traumas and past. I have now learned to live with my trust issues and anxiety. They might never fully go away, but you reminded me that maybe they should

WellBeing

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Let’s talk of what’s good in the world. It’s easy to forget what’s going well when there’s so much focus on what’s going wrong. The news cycle seems to turns on crime and environmental disasters and economic crises and autocrats. When you ask someone

The Knot Ohio Weddings Magazine

3 min read

A wedding is a loaded event—financially, emotionally and even spiritually—so it’s no wonder there can be a lot of anxiety surrounding both the actual celebration and the idea of marriage itself. There are certainly red flags you should pay attention

Cosmopolitan South Africa

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Three women on the moment they found love in a kinda hopeless place. ‘I went to a new gynae after several methods of hormonal birth control made me depressed. Every other doctor dismissed it or said to go off BC, but when I told my new doc about my m

You South Africa

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Many people have climbed Cape Town’s iconic landmark but there’s probably only one who can lay claim to having summited Table Mountain more than 20 times in two days. That’s the equivalent of almost twice the height of Everest. Endurance athlete Jami

Woman

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My mother’s favourite saying was ‘There’s a place for everything, and everything in its place’. It was the mantra that she lived and ruled by. She was fastidious about meal times and tidiness, and if things were messy or if something didn’t go to pla

WellBeing

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During my first few months of motherhood I have found myself repeating the phrase “this too shall pass,” over and over. During wakeful nights that sprawl into early mornings, through my aching back and frazzled mind; moments that puncture the otherwi