Do you often find yourself in stress-provoking scenarios with no way to control your negative emotions? The Emotional Freedom Technique, commonly known as EFT Tapping, or just “tapping,” is a free, easy-to-learn tool that requires no equipment and can be done anywhere. Tapping can bring awareness to emotions and thought processes. As a result, the body is calmed, and the negative reaction to the stressor is re-learned or rewired.
There is no question that our society has a preoccupation with body shape and size, weight, diet and exercise. Estimates have suggested that nearly half of the population (of all genders/gender identities) demonstrate disordered or problematic relationships with food, body or exercise in some form or another.
Breathing is the most basic and common habit that we all practice every day. But did you know how your breathing can affect whether or not you're feeling tired or anxious and that how you breathe can not only impact your emotions and energy but your overall health?
Through the last 2 years of a global pandemic our society has emerged more divided, more exhausted and most of all emotionally wounded across the world. As we head into the new year, transform that pain into purpose, where we can all find common ground.
Many of you have probably noticed that practicing gratitude has become trendy. While gratitude can emerge spontaneously, we are seeing a recent push to cultivate or deliberately practice gratitude. We hear people say, “Count your blessings,” and we are seeing more and more people use affirmations and have gratitude journals. But does it work? And in what ways can it help? Let’s break this down!
The stress that something was wrong with her brain kept circulating, and eventually got to the point that she decided she was in early-onset stages of dementia….. turns out, she was starting to go through perimenopausal hormonal changes.
How do we define “bullying” when the term seems to be thrown around in so many ways? The definition of bullying is: Unwanted, aggressive behavior involving real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.
My family moved to Monmouth County during the pandemic, and for the first time in a long time at the end of that summer, I started to experience the dreadful pit in the bottom of my stomach- a sadness that I associated with my childhood summers when camp would come to an end.
From the time I had children old enough to sign them up for camps, or after school activities I felt like I was doing a tug of war or balancing act between what my kids were asking me to do/what I felt pressured to do, and what I know I need to do to help them have a balanced schedule… which includes downtime.
Children and adolescents experience and display distress and mental health concerns in different ways than adults. Most adults have a more expansive ability to express themselves through words in stressful or difficult times and situations. Yet, the same general rules of thumb exist when identifying and addressing signs of emotional stress in kids as with adults.
Over the past twenty years there has been a national movement, partially as a result of the tragic campus shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007, to train faculty and administration on college campuses to more effectively identify and engage students and employees who are at-risk for mental health concerns.
I’ve always had health challenges. I vividly remember being called to the nurse’s office in high school because friends noticed that I would be in the bathroom for long periods of time after eating lunch.