April is Stress Awareness Month. This month, consider what your typical reactive behavior to stress might be. For most of us, this means we fall into four categories- flight, fight, freeze, or facade. Stress can affect us in all kinds of ways. Check out these two short videos for a bit more ...
We almost all take work home with us at the end of the day, whether we are actually lugging home files or whether our minds are simply preoccupied with what still needs to be done. It can be tough to distance yourself from work once you head home, leaving most of us feeling tired, overworked ...
Running can be a chance to go over the events of the past days or week and clear your head. Or it can allow your mind to become even more jumbled and stressed. Many people use that time of running to go through their mental filing cabinets. Going over the things that bother them or that prick ...
A video popped up on my “suggested videos” tab on Youtube recently that peaked my interest immediately. It was called “Sleep-Inducing Haircut ASMR” and was posted by the user Gentle Whispering ASMR. “What is ASMR?” I asked myself, and so began my descent down ...
More than 19 million adult Americans suffer from depression. Sadly, about half of those who turn to medication and psychotherapy do not find a solution in the treatment. Moreover, many individuals who do recover often relapse within less than a year. Because of statistics like these, more and ...
So here’s the deal, I have to be transparent and start this by saying, when my kids were young I didn’t swear. Not in front of them or without them. I felt that swearing wasn’t “ladylike” and it meant I lacked intelligence because clearly, if I was intelligent, I could find a more appropriate ...
I absolutely love the holidays, but they always come with at least a couple stressball meltdowns. I might have already had one when my whipped cream wasn’t working out to take to a friend’s Thanksgiving party last week. We all deal with stress every day, but sometimes the holidays ...
The other day my student was absent from school. I teach in a big city. Absence is not, on its own, unusual. Students balance school, jobs, family responsibilities (including caring for younger siblings and translating at appointments with lawyers and medical professionals), and myriad other ...
Having recently finished my Masters degree I’ve been thrown head first into a world of confusion — one that’s 100% my own making may I add. What do I want to do with my life? Do I want to stick with what I studied? What do I really want out of a career? These are just a few of the ...
I recently read an article in The Atlantic by James Hamblin that commented on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s practice of alternate-nostril breathing (nadi shodhana in Sanskrit). I was struck by the author’s obvious dismissiveness of this practice and HRC’s commitment to devoting ...
