Anxiety

How to Activate Your Parasympathetic Nervous System | The nervous system is having a moment in the wellness space, and for good reason. Many of us spend a lot of time living in a fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn, or sympathetic state. This causes us to have chronically elevated cortisol levels, keeping us stressed, anxious, and wired. Learning how to activated our PNS, or our 'rest and digest' state, allows us to relax, boosts our metabolism, and helps with weight loss. Click for 10 tips to help!

How to Activate Your Parasympathetic Nervous System (10 Tips)

8 Ways to Recharge Your Social Battery As An Introvert | Did you know that your personality type - introvert, extrovert, ambivert, omnivert, etc. - can impact how you cope with the world around you? Introverts tend to recharge from within while extroverts receive their energy from socialize interactions, and everyone else falls somewhere in between. Click for a list of common signs you're an introvert, signs your social battery is low, and our best tips to help you rest and recharge.

8 Ways to Recharge Your Social Battery As An Introvert

6 Lies Anxiety Tells You | Anxiety distorts our perception of reality, and if you have a tendency to overthink, ruminate, and worry excessively when you're stressed, you're not alone. Anxiety causes us to fixate on thoughts that are simply not true, which makes us feel overwhelmed, stressed, and anxious for no reason. In this post, we share common lies anxiety tells us, with tips to help you notice when this happens so you can unhook yourself from distorted thought patterns and move forward.

6 Lies Anxiety Tells You and How to Overcome Them

How to Help a Friend Going Through a Divorce | If you have a friend or family member going through a separation or a divorce and want to know how to show up for them and offer support and help when they need it most, this post is a great resource. It can be difficult to know what you should and should not say, and if you are friends with both spouses, it can be even trickier. In this post, we offer practical tips to help you offer emotional and physical support without overstepping boundaries.

How to Help a Friend Going Through a Divorce: 9 Tips

6 Surprising Ways Divorce Impacts Your Health (and How to Cope) | It's no secret that divorce is one of the most stressful life events people experience as adults, but did you know it can have negative consequences on your physical health and mental health? While the initial stress, anxiety, anger, and sadness that comes with the breakup of a marriage can be quite obvious, it can manifest in other ways, leading to health challenges you should be aware of. Click for a list plus tips to help.

6 Surprising Ways Divorce Impacts Your Health (and How to Cope)

People Pleasing and Trauma: 7 Tips to Stop Fawning | When your brain senses danger, it goes into fight, flight, or fawn. Many people who have experienced trauma as a child, teen, or even as an adult develop people pleasing behaviors as a coping mechanism and means of survival. If this resonates with you and you want to know how to stop your people pleasing tendencies, this post has tips to help you stop fawning, learn how to say no, maintain healthy boundaries and self-care, and more!

People Pleasing and Trauma: 7 Tips to Stop Fawning

8 Self-Soothing Techniques for Adults | The internet is full of self-soothing strategies for kids, but did you know there are tons of ways to calm yourself as an adult when you're feeling stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed? Whether you've had a stressful day at work or you're healing from a traumatic event, knowing how to self-soothe will calm your nervous system, help you regulate your emotions, and build your emotional resilience so you don't need to rely on unhealthy coping mechanisms.

8 Self-Soothing Techniques for Adults Who Are Stressed and Anxious

How to Challenge Anxious Thoughts and Worries | Whether you have a diagnosed anxiety disorder, struggle with ruminating thoughts, or fall somewhere in the middle, this post is a great resource. We touch on anxiety management techniques such as cognitive defusion, solution-focused thinking, mindfulness and more to help you build your very own anxiety toolkit. Click to learn how to identify and unhook from anxious thought patterns, with tips to bring yourself back to a place of calm ASAP.

How to Challenge Anxious Thoughts and Worries: 9 Tips that Help

How to Overcome Analysis Paralysis | If you struggle with decision making, have a tendency to overthink things, and/or struggle with ruminating thoughts on the regular, this post is for you! We're sharing 7 proven tips & strategies to help you overcome analysis paralysis. Click to learn how to unhook and make decisions quickly so you can feel confident in your personal and professional life, increase your productivity, and crush your goals!

How to Overcome Analysis Paralysis: 7 Tips That Help