FAMILY
These posts look at family -- parenting, marriage, parents, the entire bit!
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Improve Your Self-Awareness, Boost Your Wellness
Your greatest asset is your health, yet it’s something that we often ignore until it becomes a problem. Your wellness is an area of life where prevention is the best answer. To prevent serious health issues from causing problems you need self-awareness. By being self-aware you can boost your wellness. Whether it is through monitoring your mental health and keeping track of your physicality. It’s important to know how you feel at various times so that you can act quickly when an issue does arise. You might have the best of intentions, eating a healthy diet and regularly exercising, yet your mental health could be working to undermine that. In…
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Take Back Your Power: Stop Letting Life Control You
My life would be so much better if I just had more money, the perfect job, the perfect relationship. Does this sound familiar? Everyone has been in a situation where they have put their power and their happiness in the hands of someone else or place their control on an external situation to provide happiness. Some people chase relationship after relationship, believing that it holds the key to their life’s happiness. While others hold on to the belief that earning a certain salary will bring them joy. These are common thoughts, but when you think like that, you’re giving your power away. You’re giving that power to an external factor,…
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5 Uncommon Ways to Reduce Stress
You probably know that meditation is a great stress-reliever. You also realize that after you exercise, you feel great. This feeling of personal accomplishment is actually triggered by a release of hormones that fight stress and make you feel good about yourself. Additionally, the power of taking frequent breaks throughout your day is a commonly known stress-reliever as well. So, what happens if you try all of these and other well known stress busters, and you are still feeling anxious, and stressed out? Perhaps you should try some proven, little-known techniques for reducing the amount of stress in your life. Take the following lesser-known steps for stress-relief and you will…
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5 Self-Care Routine Ideas to Help Your Self-Discovery Journey
There’s many things which can help you on your self-discovery journey, and self-care is one of them. Let’s face it, it’s easy to forget to take care of yourself on a day-to-day basis; especially when you’ve got a family to look after. However, if you don’t take the time to look after yourself, you’re going to feel stressed, tired, burnt out and generally unhappy. If you’re struggling to make a change, here you’ll discover 5 self-care routine ideas to help your self-discovery journey. 1. Take a time-out for at least 5 minutes each day It may not sound like much but taking even just 5 minutes each day that’s just…
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We’re in this Together – Social Activity Prevents Mental Decline
Isolation is the root cause of a lot of things including depression, early death, and diseases that affect the mind. Mental decline is related to isolation and an under-stimulation of the mind, body, and spirit. Being social prevents mental decline and reduces incidences of depression and loneliness. Isolation and Mental Decline Studies show that people who feel disenfranchised and isolated tend to decline emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. This includes the onset and development of mental decline. Living alone without enough human connection and interaction can magnify feelings of loneliness. It can also make people unwilling or unable to keep active or engaged. This puts them at great risk for a…
