What is Hypervigilance?
Hypervigilance is a symptom that is often found in anxiety disorders and traumatic stress disorders. Hypervigilance is being on high alert, extra aware of their surroundings, high anxiety, fearful, or avoidant of threatening things. Commonly hypervigilance appears after a stressful or traumatic event that threatened the individuals emotional or physical safety. It can look different […]
What are the Different Types of Emotions?
Natural emotions Most people experience a variety of emotions throughout their life. Most of these experienced emotions are in reaction to something; an event, a person, something gross, or something pleasant or comforting. Sometimes these emotions are intense and fleeting, and other times they stick around. When we have an immediate emotional response to something […]
Your Body Does Not Determine Your Worth
Body positivity, body acceptance, Health at Every Size. These are all movements/ideologies that have been gaining traction in recent years. Each of these labels signifies a group of people that want to make a statement. This statement is that everyone in any body deserves to have a positive body image. Beauty is a social construct […]
How to be more mindful
It is highly likely that we have heard the term “mindfulness” thrown around in conversation, on social media or on television. But what exactly is mindfulness? And how exactly can we be mindful in our day-to-day life? Mindfulness is comprised of two things, awareness and acceptance. It is the ability to be present in your […]
Personal Growth
Googling “personal growth” will provide you with a plethora of quick fixes and easy steps to help you grow. Truthfully, there is no quick fix or 3 easy steps to personal growth. It is inherently personal in nature, and often requires a great deal of self-reflection and time to process. However, there are definitely ways […]
Forgiveness of Self and Others
Contrary to popular belief, forgiveness is not a requirement in some scenarios. Forgiveness and acceptance are often linked when discussing the past and have even been traditionally included in twelve step programs. When looking towards the past, it is important to accept what has happened, as it cannot be changed. However, it is not necessary […]
Confidence
Have you ever met someone who just emanated confidence with every fiber of their being? Or the opposite, have you ever met someone who was so full of self-doubt that you could feel it? Maybe you are one of these people, or maybe like the rest of us, you are somewhere in between. If you […]
Grief and Loss
Unfortunately, grief and loss are an inevitable part of life. Whether it is losing a pet, a parent, a job or a relationship, we as humans need to allow ourselves time to grieve. A common theoretical model of grief and loss was first proposed in 1969 by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her book On Death and […]