December can bring a wave of emotional triggers — from family pressures and financial stress to grief, loneliness, and the winter blues. This article explores why the holidays can feel overwhelming and offers compassionate, practical strategies to support your mental health during the season.
Read MoreDuring these uncertain times, we do need ideas for coping, but we also need to identify our uncomfortable feelings and possibly even allow those feelings to inform how we move forward. If that sounds a little daunting, it’s because it is a huge responsibility both to ourselves and to the world around us.
Read MoreSomehow we have absorbed the idea that being tough on ourselves, including putdowns and insults, is the best way to motivate ourselves to make change, evolve and grow. We have internalized the idea that being nice or kind is letting ourselves off the hook and if we do that we won’t move forward in life.
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