Healthy body image is when you feel comfortable with your body. You may or may not always feel positive about your appearance, but you have an overall sense of comfort and more often than not feel good about the way that you look.
Have You Been Holding Back from Achieving Your Goals?
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Debunking Myths About Sexual Assault
Gender Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Mental Health!
How We Feel About Our Body Is So Much More Than How We Look!
Eating Disorders Are Not Always What You Think They Are
Many people think of adolescent girls, gymnasts. or models when they think of eating disorders, and with good reason. Certain industries or developmental periods of life expose people to eating disordered behaviors and/or make people more susceptible to them. However, eating disorders can occur in anyone, in any setting, and during any period of life.
How to Overcome Fear and Move Towards Your Goals!
Have you recently been thinking about making a career change? Perhaps you’ve been thinking about becoming pregnant? Maybe you would like to ask someone out who you have liked for a very long time? Fear can interfere with any life goal regardless of age, situation, and strength of desire for the goal.
How to Be Kind to Yourself When Saying Goodbye to Parental Leave !
You have been home with your new baby for the last few months. Your primary job has been that of caretaker; changing diapers, warming bottles, doing laundry, and so much more. The time has come to return to your previous job and you may wonder how you are supposed to make room for both these positions: parent and professional.
Living Like a Superwoman and Living Well!
Three Ways to Maintain Connection to Your Self While Parenting a Toddler
You told yourself that the sleepless nights that come with being the parent of an infant would be over soon. You reminded yourself that when your infant acquired language there would be less crying and less frustration. Maybe you looked forward to taking your little one to preschool and playdates. When you're a first time parent, and even sometimes when you're and second or a third time parent, you can fantasize about the toddler years in an idealized manner.
Finding the Voice You Did Not Know You Had!
Quite often I hear about disappointments in the workplace, such as not getting an expected promotion, not feeling that one's requests are being taken seriously, and not feeling as if one's ideas are being heard. Oftentimes these disappointments are not due to incompetence but rather to a lack of assertiveness and follow through.
Maintaining Meaningful Dialogue When Overcome By Anger
Mourning and Loss: Seasons of Change, Seasons of Pain and Love
The loss of a loved one is never an easy situation to process. There can be so many emotions present; emotions about the person who's passed, as well as emotions about one's own life. One may find themselves feeling very positively about the person who has passed away or perhaps angry at the person for leaving life, among other feelings
Meditation And Its Many Benefits
Women, STDs, and the Emotional Rollercoaster
Being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) is not just of medical concern. It can also have a tremendous impact on a woman's emotional wellbeing. The various emotions a woman will experience will of course vary depending on the particular individual, and the specific type of STD; however, some common emotions are feelings of self-blame, guilt, anger, despair, depression, shame, a feeling of being misunderstood, and fear. Lets discuss some of these emotions.
Parenthood: Tips for Maintaining Relationship Health During an Exciting but Stressful Time
You are about to become a parent or have recently become one. Naturally you want to experience all of the joys that arrive with parenthood and are expected to do so by society. You may also be experiencing an enormous amount of stress, which comes with the great adjustment to life that parenthood requires.
Tips for Dealing with Stress Eating
Do you stress eat to numb certain feelings that seem unmanageable? Do you use food like a drug to avoid unpleasant emotions, such as anxiety or stress? Are you unfamiliar with healthier ways to cope with stress? Has stress eating been a default coping mechanism throughout your life, beginning in childhood? Perhaps you learned stress eating as a coping mechanism during childhood by watching family members stress eat.
How Do You Find Freedom to Enjoy Physical Activity When Your Body Keeps Holding You Back?
Has your body become a source of frustration due to aging, injury, illness, or pregnancy? Do you find yourself feeling limited in engaging in physical activities that you used to enjoy? People can often feel a sense of loss or even depression when they can no longer use there bodies in the ways that they may have always taken for granted.