Tag: hope
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How can stress and human connection be helpful?
I recently watched a Ted Talk video about stress and human connection. The speaker, Kelly McGonigal, discusses how stress can be beneficial if done correctly. You may be thinking, “how can stress be a good thing?” First off, you are thinking about it wrongly because your mindset does effective your overall health and mentality. …
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Retrain your Anxious Brain
Did you know that you can retrain your anxious brain? Anxiety is triggered by how we think and the environment around us. Anxiety is an emotional response that is similar to fear. A clear and definable threat causes fear. Whereas anxiety happens when an immediate threat is absent (Karle & Pittman, 2015). When we feel…
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Be Your Authentic Self
Being Your Authentic Self “Being your authentic self,” what does this exactly mean? Authentic is when you are genuine to your true self. You do not put on a mask for society so that you can fit in. Instead, you wear those silly headbands that others may think are childish. You put on that…
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Fighting Depression and Anxiety in an Unjust World
By: Brittany Gonzales Depression and Anxiety are Tough I want to state before writing this post that I am in no way an expert on depression and anxiety. My goal in this blog is to help people with depression and anxiety by understanding these illnesses. No matter what someone may say, these are illnesses and…