Helping you adjust your sails to life's challenges!
By: Angela Rozema, this mental health article is also featured in the BANA Be Yourself Magazine, which is a free online and print magazine. Economic downturns and political unrest don’t just shape markets and headlines — they affect our health. This contributes to challenges with things like our bodies, sleep, relationships, increasing our risk for …
Stop Cognitive Distortions in 3 Simple Steps. Cognitive distortions, also known as thought traps, are habitual patterns of thinking. Cognitive distortions often stem from past negative experiences. As a result, these patterns can be deeply ingrained, and can be challenging to break. Therefore it takes time and practice to change them. You can begin to …
A stark warning about the dangers of shame, it’s not the same as guilt! You can think about guilt as the little warning bell going off to let you know that you have violated a moral or value. While shame is the emotion we experience when that violation will lead to damage to our relationships …