Fundamentals are Fundamental

Please use the PLEASE skills to take care of your mental health and reduce your vulnerability to unwanted emotions. Tending to your physical health, maintaining your regular physical check-ups throughout the year, regularly visiting your dentist,…

WhySleep

Want to be healthier physically and mentally? Work on having better sleep hygiene. Take care of yourself so that you can prioritize your sleep to gain all the benefits that sleep has to offer. This link highlights 14 reasons as to why you should…

Vipassana

Guided mindfulness of the day: https://soundcloud.com/tarabrach/vipassana-basic-mindfulness

Stress Management Through Meditation

When we’re more mindful, we can see our stressors more clearly. By practicing mindfulness daily, we can build our resilience toward stress that accumulate throughout our day. http://time.com/4645363/mindfulness-meditation-stress-anxiety-resilience/

Mindfulness 101

A lot of research has been done on mindfulness and data has shown that practicing mindfulness regularly fuels connection with ourselves and surroundings, lower stress levels, greater focus of the mind with reduced brain chatter, and also understanding…

Meditate During Times of Difficulty

Life can be difficult, and mindfulness around difficult times can help us get through them without making the situation feel worse. Accepting unwanted thoughts and emotions can help lead them toward reduced intensity and eventually toward its…

Manipulating for Connection

The word “manipulation” has such a negative connotation tied to it, and in actuality, we all do it. To manipulate is to intentionally aim to influence a person’s thoughts or behaviors; depending on whether the intention is kind or harmful…

Habits for Emotional Wellness

There are many things we do and don’t do in our daily life that both help as well as inhibit self-care. Here’s a list of a few things to incorporate into your to-do list each day to promote improvement in your emotional wellness: Validate…

Fun Facts About Your Body

Did you know that you breathe up to 30,000 times a day? Did you know that 90% of diseases are caused by stress? Did you know that your brain’s neurons connected look like the structure of the universe? Check out this article and learn more…

DBT Skills Group Effectiveness!

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy is not a forever-treatment that one is in for their whole life. When only looking at DBT skills groups, a study showed the effectiveness of DBT skills group on “reducing negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors,…