A Better You

04/20/2022

"Habits can stick better when they're designed around what someone is truly willing to do, instead of what they would ideally like to do."

Subtle, intermediate-level tips for habit design.

04/19/2022

Dependability, Passive-Aggressive Behavior, Perfectionism, Pervasive Negativity, Playing Victim. Click below for explanations of each.

Narcissism isn't the only relational wrecker.

03/19/2022

😬 Start Building Self-Confidence By:

💪🏽 Challenging Unhealthy Thinking
📚 Build On Existing Successes
💡 Finding Ways To Validate Yourself

Challenge unhealthy thinking, validate yourself, and build on your successes.

03/18/2022

Has Anxiety Ever Stood In Your Way Of An Opportunity? 🙋🏾‍♂️

TL:DR
🎯 Stop Thinking You Shouldn't Feel It
🎯 When You Think What If, Reframe It
🎯 Journaling Your Most Troubling Upsetting, Intrusive Thoughts

Learning to control your anxiety can help you be happier and more successful.

03/17/2022

🍀 Happy St.Patrick's Day 🍀

03/17/2022

🍀 Intense marketing by the alcohol industry has made St. Patrick's Day one of the national celebrations most drenched in alcohol.
🍀 A movement to promote Sober St. Patrick's Day is returning the celebration to its origins, a day of family and community gatherings.

Ways To Celebrate Responsibly
➡️ Attend a parade, even virtually.
➡️ Cook a traditional Irish meal.
➡️ Listen to Irish music.
➡️ Learn an Irish dance.
➡️ Spend time with sober friends.

The Feast of St. Patrick is March 17. It can be about more than getting drunk.

03/16/2022

👇🏾 Does any of these resonate with you?

🚩 Fear of being alone
🚩 Activating An Attachment Wound
🚩 Too Invested
🚩 Partner's Potential Vs Who They Are Today
🚩 Worth = Relationship Status

9. You’re confusing chemistry for compatibility.

03/16/2022

👉🏾 Childhood trauma can affect our adult relationships and our mental and physical health.
👉🏾 Trauma is unresolved when we do not process it either when it occurred or shortly after.
👉🏾 Creating a cohesive narrative includes acknowledging our overreactions, writing down 10 traumas, and feeling the pain of our trauma.

Creating a coherent narrative to heal from trauma.

02/26/2022

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, activist, and author of 13 books in more than 100 foreign editions.

02/26/2022

Episodic memory is "remembrance of things past," such as when, where, and with whom a specific personal experience occurred.

Here's what you can do to slow the process.

Aerobic exercise may improve episodic memory in late adulthood (ages 55 to 68).

02/20/2022

Think it couldn't happen to you?

Here are some red flags 🚩 and how to protect yourself.

The Netflix documentary "The Tinder Swindler" has captivated audiences.

02/17/2022

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

Happy Random Acts Of Kindness Day!

Click the article for a few examples of how you can participate.

Each year on February 17th, National Random Acts of Kindness Day grows in popularity. It is celebrated by individuals, groups and organizations nationwide to encourage acts of kindness.