Instead of mustering up more willpower to resist unhealthy habits, try creating an environment that feeds healthy habits and starves the unhealthy ones.
anxiety
How To Unlock Your Capacity To Change
Do you find yourself wondering if things will never change for you? Have you convinced yourself that change is just not possible for you, and that… …you’re destined to always feel anxious? …you’re doomed to never being able to control your eating? At times, it can feel as if life has sentenced you to run […]
How To Stop Indulging In Overwhelm, Confusion, and Worry
As much as we try to balance our schedules, commitments, and responsibilities, sometimes life’s pressures and demands get to be too much. However, indulging in overwhelm, worry, and confusion is not the answer. There is a better, healthier way.
How To Solve Anxious Indecision
Every day we make decisions. Some decisions are automatic, like reaching for the toothbrush. Others are more thoughtful, such as a gift for a loved one or where to vacation. Some decisions require more time, like accepting a job offer or investing in a home. Yet, for some of us, making any decision, big or […]
How To Tame Triggers
Getting triggered is part of being human. Because our primitive survival brain is programmed to think negative thoughts first in order to keep us safe and secure, no matter the circumstance, we’re going to feel annoyed, frustrated, irritated, angry, and even enraged. Something or someone is going to flip our lid, pop our cork, or […]
What Are You Making It Mean?
As difficult as it might be to accept, everything that makes us feel anxious, angry, guilty, upset, or enraged invites the question: “What am I making it mean?” Whereas it’s up to us to make meaning of the anxiety that we feel, it’s important to realize that meaning-making involves thoughts and beliefs that cause how […]