Articles to Support Your Health and Well-being
Mental health is health. To help with day-to-day stress and challenges, we’re offering 10 tips to boost yours.
Managing your money so it goes further is critical right now to hold on to more of your cash and income. One way you can do that is by becoming more frugal.
How to Relive Stress Now and in the Future By Elizabeth Scott, PhD Elizabeth Scott, MS
Not feeling particularly cheery this time of year? You’re not alone.
Learn four ways to use food to thrive!
It’s no secret the holidays can be draining, both emotionally and financially. You can set with friends and family now to set yourself up for financial success.
Everyone feels stressed from time to time. But what is it?
There are a number of emotion regulation strategies that people can master to build their coping skills
What can we do when we find ourselves engaging with others in a negative way?
So in case you need to hear this, it’s definitely not wrong to be frugal this holiday season.
How to Manage Holiday Stress
Techniques and tools to help you understand, manage and overcome your anxiety, worry & stress.
Beat workplace stress by reaching out.
How can physical activity help me sleep?
Types of Boundaries
Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Let it out slowly. Feel better?
Struggling with a new move? Here are some things to consider when coping.
Anxiety Series – Article 3
How to manage and change your emotions effectively with meditation.
Festivals and your Mental Health
The pain is excruciating. Piercing. Throbbing. Persistent. And that’s just the physical part of it. Your emotions are just as intense.
While a growing number of ads for nutritional supplements claiming to boost immune system functioning may tempt you, resist the urge.
Between health concerns, financial strain and social distancing, we are all under stress with the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Disruption to routine of any kinds makes it harder to stick to healthy habits, and all the more so in the case of the coronavirus outbreak.
As the days grow shorter, and temperatures drop, it's natural to crave heartier, comfort foods during the colder months.
Who would have thought that coloured markers and a bit of paper can help manage stress?
What are the symptoms of depression in men and women? Helping identify the symptoms is a positive step towards awareness and well-being
Sleep Series - Article 3
Make it your goal to move in some way every day. Improve balance and coordination, aid weight loss and improve sleep habits and self-esteem
You can stop worrying about what's wrong in your life if you start thinking about what's right!
Rethink the way you approach your to-do list
It’s probably not hard for you to notice when a particular event is stressing you out but do you know when stress is starting to take its toll?
A mastery over stress using your mind can unleash your potential and maximize both mental and physical capacity.
First and foremost, a frugal life will allow you to build more financial freedom into your life by accelerating how quickly you achieve your financial goals.
Tips for a Healthier Lifestyle
How to tackle hypothetical worries
Healthy Boundaries during Holiday Seasons
In the short term, stress can be advantageous, but when activated too often or too long, your primitive fight or flight stress response not only changes your brain but also damages many of the other organs and cells throughout your body.
With awareness, motivation, desire for change, and repetitive practice, we can alter our thoughts and emotions.
Kick-Start Your Life
Healthy Boundaries during Holiday Season
Do you sometimes have trouble saying "no"? Don't worry - you're not alone!
Do you feel overwhelmed by juggling your work and personal life? You're not alone.
When it comes to talking to a loved one about mental health, it can be very uncomfortable because as a society we are still living with a lot of stigmas and there isn’t enough information out there to help us know how to start such a conversation. Fortunately, there's a proven way to start that conversation.
Sleep is an integral part of recovering from a heartbreak. The most important part is to establish a regular routine that will reinforce rest and relaxation.
When feeling distressed or upset, we sometimes let our emotions and feelings determine our behaviour. In other words, we let our feelings dictate or determine our behaviour.
Check out these quick tips and start living a healthier, calmer, and happier, life immediately.
Try this breathing technique that is designed to help you relax and release tension.
Despite the fact that each of us may experience tension slightly differently, anyone can learn to release that tension.
A good technique to relax your entire body is to alternately tense and relax each of the major muscle groups in your body, as you breathe deeply and fully.
Despite the fact that each of us may experience tension slightly differently, anyone can learn to release that tension. All it takes is knowing how to relax, practicing relaxation techniques, and choosing a technique that works best for you.
Managing emotions is a skill that can be learned and used to confront the most challenging feelings.
How to incorporate mindfulness activities into your daily life.
Use this meditation to work with difficult emotions, such as fear or body sensations, such as pain.
How much should you set aside for each area?
Are you extremely afraid of being judged by others? Are you very self-conscious in everyday social situations? Do you avoid meeting new people?
Key benefits of physical activity for mental health:
February is Heart Month, so it’s a great time to reflect on self-care for your heart.
It seems like it's become harder and harder to date. How on earth do we make sense of the messy online dating scene?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition caused by witnessing or experiencing actual or threatened death, serious injury or violence. Being affected by these types of events is normal; however, if the thoughts or memories of these events start to seriously affect a person long after the event, they could be experiencing PTSD.
How do you know you need to set a boundary during the holidays?
Take Control of your worries
Bring meditation into your life in a few simple steps.
Improving your sleep is crucial for overall health and work productivity.
Stop letting anxiety inhibit the enjoyable parts of life.
Panic attacks are quite common. Ever wonder why our bodies are reacting in such a way? Let's break it down.
Anxiety Series – Article 7
The transition to motherhood can be challenging and full of unanticipated new realities. Here are the things I didn't plan for.
Everything we experience in life passes through one filter - our mind.
Anxiety Series – Article 2
Everyone copes with grief differently, and some people are able to remain resilient, with little to no impact on psychological functioning.
Never tried a massage? You may be missing out on more benefits than you realized.
Do you use the terms worry and anxiety interchangeably?
Anxiety Series – Article 6
According to psychologists, be aware of the signs so that you can catch them early.
Time management has proven effective as a tool for productivity. Those who excel at time management perform well and have an improved sense of well-being.
Anxiety is more than having sweaty palms and butterflies in your stomach.
Improve your parasympathetic tone and help your body deal with stress better.
Anxiety Series – Article 5
Sleep Series - Article 4
There can be a variety of causes of stress. Read about them here.
Sleep Series - Article 1
Agoraphobia can sometimes develop if a person has a panic attack in a specific situation or environment. They begin to worry so much about having another panic attack that they feel the symptoms of a panic attack returning when they're in a similar situation or environment.
Anxiety Series – Article 1
At the most basic level, stress is our body’s response to pressures from a situation or life event.
Anxiety Series – Article 4
Do you sometimes have sudden attacks of anxiety and overwhelming fear that last for several minutes? Maybe your heart pounds, you sweat, and you feel like you can’t breathe or think. If so, you may have a type of anxiety disorder called panic disorder.
Do you constantly have disturbing uncontrollable thoughts? Do you feel the urge to repeat the same behaviors or rituals over and over? Are these thoughts and behaviors making it hard for you to do things you enjoy?
People with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) feel extremely worried or feel nervous about these and other things—even when there is little or no reason to worry about them. The good news is that GAD is treatable.
Sleep Series - Article 2
A successful preparation starts with a healthier and happier you. Buckle-up and ring-in the New Year with Top 5 Dietitian Approved Tips.
