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The Top 10 Mood Tracking Apps We Love
While carrying your pen and notebook around is good for a healthy state of mind, it is not the only way to keep track of your mood. Besides, you might not always remember to update your journal, causing you to leave out important details about your mood. Luckily, several mood tracking apps will help you deal with such problems efficiently. Here are the top 10 mood tracking apps we [...]
7 Ways to Cope with Stressful Family Gatherings During the Holidays
The holiday season brings people together. During this time, family gatherings are common. Family get-togethers have been commonplace surrounding the holidays for a long time. Essentially, family members from far and wide come together to be merry, share experiences, and enjoy each other's company. However, it can be quite overwhelming to family members with different personalities. Past family drama does not make things easier either. In the worst case, [...]
8 Ways You Can Avoid Shame and Live a Healthier Life
Shame is a feeling of humiliation or embarrassment resulting from a conscious knowledge or perception of wrongdoing. A cause of shame could be as simple as failure to meet societal expectations or as complex as childhood trauma. If left unchecked, shame can make you feel unaccepted or defeated in life. Given that shame is a derivative of specific actions, many people prefer keeping what they are ashamed of hidden. [...]
The Lifestyle Benefits of Sleep
As day-light savings inevitably descends for the fall season, we can give consideration to understanding the benefits of sleep. As with many other circumstances that we value, we miss it when we do not have it! In the modern 24-hour society, insufficient sleep has global public health implications. According to the latest reflections from the National Institutes of Health, about 40% of Americans experience problems and 70 million have [...]
How To Journal for Anxiety Related Disorders
Anxiety is far much more common than is actually reported by mainstream media. While depression is reported more and given the attention, anxiety and related conditions rarely come into the limelight of discussion. Anxiety and anxiety related disorders are a group of disorders which are characterized by autonomic hyperactivity in the face of certain situations. General anxiety disorder is much more common and affects a large percentage of the population.Anxiety [...]
How Friendships Change Throughout Teen Years
The process of growth involves changes in what we like, who we like and what we find interesting. Along with these are changes in who we consider friends. This is a normal part of growth for both adults and especially for teens. Friendships evolve for many reasons. Teenage years are the years we find ourselves and what we like. We make life-altering decisions such as where to go to [...]