The Wellness Diary

Insights, advice, new research, tips and tricks, and new resources to help you with your mental health journey.

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7-Healthy Daily Habits That Can Help You Stay Sober 

Being in recovery can be overwhelming. But recovery can also be a great opportunity to revamp your life and create some healthy habits that will help you stay sober. They’ll also help you live a healthier life, now and in the future. Consider adding these healthy practices to your daily routine to live your best life yet.

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The Five Love Languages: How They Show Up In Relationships

If you haven’t heard of the five love languages you may not realize how much it is affecting your personal relationships. Dr. Gary Chapman, the author of Five Love Languages, designed this book to help others more effectively communicate love. As humans, we long to love and be loved. With that in mind, everyone expresses and receives love differently. The five love languages are the different types of ways we all receive and express love.

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6 Ways to Help Isolated Seniors While Social Distancing

With older adults considered high risk for COVID-19, seniors may want to maintain social distancing. However, even when they can’t be together, families can still support their older loved ones. Here are six ways that you can prevent senior isolation if you’re social distancing.

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How To Identify a Karmic Relationship

If you have ever experienced a bond that feels like a magnetic connection, but with a turbulent twist, you are not alone. Karmic relationships are filled with passion and pain, often at the same time.

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Three Simple Ways to Find Calm and Nourish Resilience

Tame anxious thoughts, strengthen emotional agility and cultivate compassion and connection with mindfulness. Practicing mindfulness is a gesture of kindness toward yourself, your family, and your community. Taking time for intentional rest, learning to build emotional agility, and connecting with your undefended heart are the skills that mindfulness practice teaches us.

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Getting Over A Break Up: Re-vamping Your Space

When relationships end, people can experience a wide range of emotions, like sadness, anger, or even fear. Even when the relationship wasn’t particularly happy, people might still suffer its loss with feelings that could be best described as grief. It’s not uncommon for people who have recently broken up to feel relieved and enthusiastic about their future one day but might feel sad or even hopeless the next.

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An Introduction: Color Therapy and Healing

Color is there everywhere you look, and also everywhere you do not look. You delight in its marvels consciously plus subconsciously. The point has been you see color all the time, but how often do you think about its origins and effects?

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5-Mental Health Myths

We live in a culture that perpetuates pleasant feelings. Everywhere we look, from social media to advertisements, to our friends and family, we only see people who appear to be happy, easy-going and feeling good. We are raised to believe that we should aim to experience as many uplifting, happy emotions as possible and to minimize unpleasant emotions.

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Three Simple Ways to Find Calm and Nourish Resilience

Tame anxious thoughts, strengthen emotional agility and cultivate compassion and connection with mindfulness. Practicing mindfulness is a gesture of kindness toward yourself, your family, and your community. Taking time for intentional rest, learning to build emotional agility, and connecting with your undefended heart are the skills that mindfulness practice teaches us.

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High Functioning Anxiety: How To Live With It

People with high functioning anxiety experience many typical symptoms of anxiety, such as excessive worry and fear, overthinking, and poor sleep. Effective treatment is available for all types of anxiety. This article provides an overview of high functioning anxiety, its symptoms, and the potential treatment options.

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The Power of Hugs And The Fabulous Health Benefits

Are you a hug or a handshake kind of person? If you’re the latter, you might want to reconsider the power a hug can have on your health. We hug others when we’re excited, happy, sad, or even trying to comfort! Hugging is universally comforting and it makes us feel good. It turns out that hugging is proven to make us healthier, hastier, and happier.

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5- Reasons Why Traveling Is Great for Mental Health

Getting out of your home and seeing other places is one of the best ways to meet the world, but also to learn more about yourself as well. Getting away from your everyday environment is great for your stress level and your anxiety, especially if you work hard every single day and need some time off. That’s why traveling might be the best way to boost your mental health, but if you’re still not sure that’s true, here are five reasons that will tell you why that’s the case.

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Should You Move After the Loss of a Loved One?

Although staying in the space shared with a beloved partner is a comfort to some, others can find it too hard. When that’s the case, it may make sense to move out and find a new space where you can get a fresh start. If you’re unsure, there are things you can consider that will help you determine whether you should stay in your home, or find a new space.

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Own It: Up-Level Your Self-Esteem

You will never be someone you are not supposed to be. You may wonder why my life is like this, when in fact, flaws in all, you make your life the best it can be. All the past experiences and memories made have shaped your life. The thought may linger that it is for the better or the worse. But eventually, you make things happen if you want them to.

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Relaxation Techniques: Tips On How To Reduce Stress

Relaxation is not only about peace of mind or about enjoying a hobby. Relaxation is a process that decreases the effects of stress on your mind and body as well. Relaxation techniques can indeed help you cope with everyday stress and even with stress related to various health problems, such as heart diseases, stress and pain.

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Understanding Rape Scripts

There are mainstream preconceived notions that negatively reinforce what defines and constitutes rape, when in reality the victim often knows the perpetrator which creates more issues with trust and feelings of betrayal and confusion. Some may overlook nonconventional rape experiences and be overly dismissive and therefore the victim may not be diagnosed with PTSD or Rape Trauma Syndrome.

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Understanding Cognitive Dysfunction in Mental Illness

Mental illness affects many people, but what most do not realize is that it does not just cause emotional problems – it causes cognitive problems too. The person with mental illness may find it difficult to think clearly, pay attention and remember.

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How To Navigate Difficult Breakups

We have all been there. Whether you are the dumper or the dumpee, ending a relationship is

never easy. With breakups skyrocketing during the pandemic, there are so many unanswered

questions that are looming in our minds. There are endless “what ifs” that can never be

answered.

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