Berating yourself doesn’t have to be part of daily life. These experts will tell you how to practice self-kindness and stop chipping away at your self-esteem.
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Berating yourself doesn’t have to be part of daily life. These experts will tell you how to practice self-kindness and stop chipping away at your self-esteem.
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After my mental health took a nosedive I deleted years’ worth of data and missed targets – and the guilt that goes with them, says author Laura Kay
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Acknowledge emotional barriers; align self-care with emotional needs; consider micro-breaks; and find a self-care buddy.
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Hearing him say that, it suddenly clicked for me too: Exercise can be an act not of vanity, but of psychological self-care. Many wars are being waged against women—against our bodies, our rights, our sizes, our images of ourselves, and who is and isn’t allowed to claim this identity. For a long time, I felt that by rejecting movement, I was rejecting an idealized and impossible body image, that I was learning “self-acceptance.” But really I was just sabotaging my own mental health.
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Getting dumped right before a solo overland journey from Barcelona to Beijing derailed my bid to rebrand myself as a woman of the world
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Everyone who sings – from young students to passionate amateurs – should be taking care of their voice.
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Spending Christmas by yourself can be hard but research shows there are things that should help.
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Content Fitness professionals show up like champions to help clients improve their holistic health, but they often neglect their own wellness.
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Solitude doesn’t have to feel lonely. It can be restoring and refreshing with a little practice.
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Our fears about what other people think of us are overblown and rarely worth fretting over.
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Your internal monologue shapes mental wellbeing, says psychologist Ethan Kross. He has the tools to improve your mind’s backchat
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The pandemic taught us that when you take care of yourself, you’re also taking care of your family, friends and community. The 7-Day Well Challenge will show you how to focus on self-care in 2021.
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Whatever form it takes — projection, self-encouragement, humor — it’s a way of hearing our own voice, helping us discern what’s going on inside our head.
It's ok to talk to yourself. Self-talk
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It’s often said that happiness is a choice: You can either choose to be happy or choose to be sad, stressed, or anxious.
But simply choosing happiness doesn’t always make it so. Many times, you can’t simply force a smile and make believe that everything is coming up roses.
Thankfully, there are much more effective ways, based squarely on research-proven Positive Psychology strategies and concrete techniques that can help you deal effectively with life’s challenges and attain long-term happiness.
That’s why the health experts at Harvard Medical School have created the all-new Positive Psychology Course — the exclusive interactive resource that helps you apply the same tools that are widely used by mental health professionals to help treat a variety of condition, from stress, anxiety and anger to coping with grief and loss.
Step-by-step, Harvard’s Positive Psychology Course will give you strategies to build happier, more positive lifestyle