#Self Help Guides

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How Journaling Creates a Strong Mindset for Long-Term Weight loss

When the first blooms of spring appear, it's a sure indicator that bathing suit season is just around the corner. While it's impossible to avoid the need to work out and eat a healthy diet, long-term weight loss begins in your mind. According to experts, having the appropriate attitude can help you think and believe in healthy practices. When it comes to losing weight and striving to become healthier, we often concentrate on our activities and routines, such as what we consume and how we mo...

Feb 19, 2022

Challenges

Bouncing Back from Career Burnout: A 21 Day Journaling Guide

Most people express stress at their job from time to time. The stress that a job and career put on someone can be particularly challenging. When the stress is exacerbated and moves into burnout, there can be lasting physical and emotional effects. Although burnout is not considered a medical or mental health diagnosis, it can lead to further mental and physical health difficulties.

Feb 14, 2022

Challenges

12 Steps to Changing the Dynamics or Breaking Free of a Co-Dependent Relationship

Relationships are the heart of human connection and one of the most important pieces to someone’s wellbeing and overall quality of life. Relationships can come in all types of forms, situations, lengths of time, and more. Research suggests that when someone is involved in a healthy relationship, it can have positive effects on their mental health, stress levels, anxiety, depression, and well-being. On the other hand, if you are involved in an unhealthy relationship, it can have detrimental ...

Jan 31, 2022

Self Help Guides

The Mental Health Debate of Nature vs. Nurture

Known as one of the biggest debates in the history of science, the conflict between nature versus nurture has led to some significant conversations around the relative contributions of environment and genes. This type of debate has shaped many fields of science including biology, chemistry, and psychology. At its most basic, nature refers to how biology, genes, and hereditary influences shape someone and their behavior. On the other hand, nurture refers to the ways in which environment (e.g...

Jan 29, 2022

Self Help Guides

Why do Coaching & Counseling Careers Cause Burnout?

If you're a life coach, counselor, or someone from the mammoth industry of mental health and its services, you will probably relate to this article more than anything. This industry has risen from ground zero over the past fifty years, all the while encompassing broader terms, job descriptions, and labor or workforce. Unlike traditional therapy, you can consider counseling or coaching to be its younger, livelier, more enthusiastic sibling that wears glitter. Not to say that we should not ta...

Nov 8, 2021

Featured

Every Therapist's Guide to Social Media Advertising and Building their Personal Brand

The days of being a therapist have changed for good. Using technology and telehealth is considered the norm in the therapy office, and clients expect to have them as options. In an increasingly digital world, many therapists are considering using social media for a variety of reasons. And if you aren’t thinking of using social media, you likely have a colleague or friend who is encouraging you to use it.

Oct 20, 2021

Anxiety

Bible Study on Peace and Anxiety | Find Calm in God

Find true peace by turning to God's Word—gain spiritual insight and courage to face anxiety with renewed faith.

Sep 18, 2021

Christianity

Scripture Journaling Prompts to Deepen Your Faith

Find powerful scripture journaling prompts to guide your reflection, strengthen your relationship with God, and grow your spiritual practice daily.

Aug 21, 2021

Self Help Guides

Five-Minute Gratitude Journal

Some days, you say “thank you” a dozen or more times. Someone brings you coffee, so you say, “thank you.” Someone else grabs lunch, so you say “thanks” once again. These small acts of kindness continue throughout the day, so you say “thank you” repeatedly.

Aug 5, 2021

Mental Health

Starting a Christian Counseling Practice Made Easy

Starting your own Christian counseling practice may seem daunting. There are so many things to consider like what type of credentials you need, what services you want to provide, where you will practice, and not to mention all the logistics of starting your own business. However, starting your own Christian counseling practice can be a rewarding and exciting endeavor. This guide will help walk you through some of the decisions you will need to make as well as some of the practical steps nee...

Jun 19, 2021

Coping and Recovery

What is Stockholm Syndrome and How Do I Cope?

Technically speaking, Stockholm Syndrome refers to a particular emotional, physical, and psychological experience that people go through in hostage situations. In popular culture, we refer to anyone who seems overly compliant and sympathetic with an abuser as a person with Stockholm Syndrome. In the era of #MeToo, examples of powerful women being abused by even more powerful men has opened our eyes to the reality that Stockholm Syndrome as we popularly refer to it can happen to anyone, not ...

May 14, 2021

Self Help Guides

An Introvert’s Guide to Surviving the Extroverted World

Almost one-half of the population is introverted meaning that most people are trying to survive in an extroverted world. If you are reading this article, you may be an introvert, or you may be wondering if you are an introvert. There is no denying that the world we live in was built for those who thrive in large social gatherings. Because of this, some people can feel shame or embarrassment over being an introvert. That’s in part because there are many incorrect assumptions about what it me...

Apr 24, 2021

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