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Emotional Intelligence
How to Build Emotional Resilience
Emotional resilience has to do with how well you cope with difficult emotions when they arise and how well you handle emotional challenges such as grief, anger, frustration, failure, or other problems. Strong emotional resilience can help you cope with challenging situations without becoming overwhelmed or wanting to give up.
How to Identify Toxic Relationships
Toxic relationships tend to drain your energy, because the patterns of behavior from a toxic person can be confusing, hypocritical, and exhausting. You may not recognize how toxic the relationship has become until you take some time to really think about the patterns that have been established.
EI Series: Are You Using Selective Self Control?
Selective self-control refers to our ability to control ourselves in some circumstances, but not in others. Selective self-control tells you that you can’t control your reactions to certain circumstances, and then you feel helpless about your ability to exert power over your own behavior.
Relationships
Relationship Series: Sexual Compatibility and Your Partnership
Sex can and should be a fun and integral part of your relationship or marriage. It’s also one of the main reasons people break up and it’s a big source of conflict for some couples.
Relationship Series: When Opposites Attract- How to Manage Personality Differences
Personality differences can complicate relationships. Communication and respect for your differences will help you use those personality traits to your advantage and build a stronger partnership along the way.
Relationship Series: How to Stop Past Pain from Damaging Your Relationship
Sometimes the hardest thing to overcome in your relationship is not what’s happening right now, but what happened to you in the past and how that affects you today. Being aware of how your past has impacted you emotionally will help you to have a healthier approach to resolving conflict with your partner and build the relationship you really want.
Holistic Mental Health
5 Things to Ditch When You’re Feeling Depressed
When you are in a depressive state, it can be a challenge to get out of, even when you’re tired of feeling bad all the time. Cutting some things out instead of adding more to your to-do list can be one strategy to combat depression and start to feel better, so that you actually have the energy to take care of yourself. Here are some things that you can safely ditch when you’re feeling depressed so that you have more time and energy to focus on yourself and get to feeling better:
10 Tips to Manage Depression
Depression can feel like an overwhelming sadness that saps the joy out of your life and prevents you from taking even small steps forward. Depression is treatable, though, and there are many ways to manage the symptoms of depression.
How to use the RAINBOW Method for Sensory Distraction to combat Panic and Anxiety
Using sensory distraction is one way of coping during a panic attack, and there are several ways to do this.The RAINBOW method involves the use of your visual senses. You can think of this practice as kind-of like a mantra that you can use during period of overwhelming anxiety to bring your attention back to present moment.
Trauma Recovery
4 Ways That Trauma Affects Memory
Trauma can affect your memory in significant ways that impact trauma recovery. There are 4 different kinds of memory, each associated with different parts of your brain, and each affected slightly differently after trauma.
10 Ways Trauma Affects Your Relationships
Trauma disrupts your sense of safety and changes the way that you view the world. This also includes the effects that trauma has on your relationships with other people, whether romantic or platonic.
How Trauma Affects Your Brain
Traumatic experiences can overwhelm the brain’s ability to cope using normal methods of stress relief, and thus alternative coping methods have to be developed, which can cause disruption in the lives of people trying to recover from trauma.When you have experienced trauma, your brain goes into a state of hyper-arousal, basically because your fight or flight response has been triggered and your brain reacts by trying to prepare you for potential danger.
