Mental Health Training

How many times have you started something with the best of intentions only to fizzle out before you ever got the idea fully off the ground? Frustrating. This feels especially bad when you quit after making significant inroads into the project. You wouldn’t think you’d leave something hanging like that, but you do. Why? We tend to be bad at reaching our goals. Not because we can’t make a decent goa...

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) says "social isolation and loneliness have a detrimental effect on your health and well-being".  Some consider loneliness a primary emotion, on a par with fear and anger. For millions of years, survival relied on being part of a gathering; being isolated from your community was dangerous.  But now, a fear of loneliness can keep us in a toxic relation...

5 Steps to Defeat Perfectionism Once and For All We all have moments where we fall into perfectionism. For some of us, this might happen kind of often. For others, it's reserved for those special occasions where we have a project where we can't rest until we get it right While occasional super-attention-to-detail is okay, it’s when we make perfectionism a way of life that it becomes a problem. Tho...

3 Visualizations for a Calmer, Happier You Calm down. Seriously. We all have things that leave us on edge. Sometimes it’s an event or a person (like a visit from your mother-in-law). Sometimes we’re more anxious due to more significant issues, leaving us unsure of our safety and well-being, like when a severe illness is going around. Whatever the case, anxiety is adept at derailing our lives and k...

9 Steps for Creating Powerful Affirmations Using positive affirmations every day is a powerful way of switching up your mindset and setting you on the path to success. More and more people, from sports stars to entrepreneurs, are using affirmations to change their mindsets to concentrate on achieving their goals and creating the life they really want. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to creat...

Learning to Trust Your Emotions We are all born with a certain amount of intuition. From a very young age, the problem is that we are often told to ignore our emotions or that our feelings are just wrong. Much like force-feeding an infant can cause the child to ignore their natural hunger control mechanism, it is the same with emotions. The more we have been taught to push down our feelings, the m...

Why You Need to Let That Anger Go    Many of us have been taught that anger is a bad thing. Your parents, teachers, and other authority figures reminded you to reign in your outbursts. You have probably shared that with your kids or others. Yes, there are times when getting angry helps you. It might spur you on to change. However, holding onto anger can affect you, your relationships, and your hea...

Are you one hundred per cent satisfied with your life? Do you feel your life is fulfilling and full of meaning? Or are there things you gripe about and think you can’t change? If you feel like you spend your life trying to be happy but never quite getting there, instead of shrugging your shoulders, why not decide to change, right now. Here are four of the most common things people don’t do, that k...

How to Let Go of Past Grudges  Who hasn’t been hurt by someone? Your spouse cheated on you. Your best friend from high school stole your boyfriend. Maybe you have a co-worker stealing your ideas or a boss who bullies you. Worse, you might have experienced trauma from physical, mental, or other forms of abuse. As time passes, some wounds don’t heal, and when that happens, you may be carrying a grud...

Fear-Based Motivation Fear can be an effective catalyst for motivation. For example, if your boss tells you to get your project done on time or you will lose your job, you can be sure you’re going to do everything in your power to get that project done. You may resent your boss for doing this, but you are probably going to do as he or she wishes unless you are looking to get fired. Another situati...

 Do you ever wake up in the morning, and the last thing you want to do is get out of bed? How about the mornings when you wake up, hop out of bed ready to take on the world? What's the difference between those two scenarios? Motivation. Motivation compels us to set objectives and, more importantly - forces us towards them. If you want to know how to tap into the power of motivation, then listen to...

Fake it 'Til You Make It Right now, I want to talk about the notion of faking it 'til you make it, which is kind of a common term if you read a lot of self-improvement books. The idea is that if you act a certain way, even if you don't feel that way if you act that way long enough you can create the feeling. You can create this new result. Which can work when used properly, but I think it's misund...

6 Tips for Making Friends as an Adult Who are your friends? A recent survey has determined you might not have a lot of close relationships in your life. In fact, the number of people who claim to have more than three solid friendships in their lives is only 37% or one-third of the population. Even more discouraging is the idea that fully 27% of adults say they have no close relationships at all. M...

3 Truths About Reclaiming Confidence You Need to Know Right Now Not everyone is going to get it right. Sadly, there’s always someone quick to point out when you’re getting it wrong. It’s when you come under fire that you lose confidence quickly. To get past this kind of blow to our confidence, you need to understand these simple truths: Not Everyone Has It Right. Not Even You Haters are going to h...

What Happens When You Surround Yourself with the Wrong People?  If you read enough self-help books, you will notice the recurring theme of surrounding yourself with the right people. You may have even heard your mom tell you to stop running with the wrong crowd. These are helpful suggestions, but what happens when the wrong type of personality surrounds you? How can the kinds of people affect your...

How A Gratitude Mindset Can Help You Reach your Goals When we have a long-term goal we are working towards, it’s easy to be so focused on it that we start to believe we won’t be happy until we reach it. It’s important to have long-term goals, but not at the expense of your daily life. Staying in a place of gratitude for what you already have and what you’ve already achieved in your life can be a h...

How Can I Stop Avoiding My Feelings?  In this day and age, individuals are usually encouraged to suppress their feelings and emotions for several reasons. Your job wants you to remain professional, and kids are taught that expressing emotions makes you weak. But all this avoidance of feelings can cause them to fester and grow into serious issues such as anxiety and depression. This is why it is ti...

Apply These Five Métiers to Make Sure You Stay Motivated  You’re midway through the project, and you’re losing appeal. Motivation is about to go out the window, and you feel helpless to keep it. What can you do to stay motivated so that you can stay on track through the remainder of the project? Try these tips: 1. The first thing you need to do is visualize your success.   Before you go another st...

Does Having Aspirations Matter? As a kid, did you dream about being a police officer, astronaut, or computer game programmer? If so, you had long-term hopes that influenced everything you did, from the television, shows you watched to the classes you took in school. Without those aspirations, you may have felt like you were floundering in the choppy seas called life. Many people go through life wi...

How Aspirations Can Affect Our Relationships When you have dreams, you hope that your loved ones will come alongside you and help you achieve them. This is especially true in a romantic relationship. Sometimes, your aspirations will align, and things will be smooth sailing. Other times, you may feel like you are on opposite ends of the universe with no way to meet in the middle.  It is possible to...

What Are Aspirations?  Do you have hopes and dreams? Do you have the ambition to achieve a life goal in the future? You have aspirations. These big picture life goals give us a sense of purpose and direction as we live out each day. Don’t be mistaken. Having goals and aspirations is not the same thing. Goals are action steps to get you to a final destination, while aspirations tend to be more gene...

Four Ways You Can Use Technology to Stay Connected Whether you've got to work from home indefinitely, or you've got a friend who lives miles away that you are trying to keep in touch with, technology can help you stay connected. However, it can be difficult to use technology to stay connected if you don't know where to start. Keep reading to get some ideas to know the most efficient way to use tec...

Living a happy life is everyone’s goal. Who doesn’t want to feel good about themselves? And yet so many of us live a life of self-doubt, feeling undeserving or incapable, or wishing we were walking another path. However, living a happy life, being a happy person, is a matter of how you perceive yourself and your place in the world. You can “think yourself happy” by taking action, being honest abou...

Everybody worries sometimes. Right now, you’ve probably even got a few worries on your mind. You might be thinking about a relationship or a situation at work, causing you trouble. Maybe you’re worried about your health or whether you’re going to have enough money to pay the bills at the end of the month. Whatever the case, worry happens whether we intend for it to or not. This becomes a problem,...

What Is Idolatry? Idolatry is obsessive and unrealistic worship, devo­tion or love directed at another person, who has then been termed an idol. The obsessed person is the idolater, and invari­ably has a false mental perception of who or what the idol represents. Idolatry is sometimes called idol worship, and the people who worship idols can be called idolaters. The idol may be some­one who the id...