Never underestimate the power of a smile. It’s a simple, cost-free, and accessible tool that has the potential to transform your mood and the world around you.
5-4-3-2-1 Technique for Anxiety is a simple method for calming your mind, interrupting your thought patterns, and providing instant relief.
If you’re concerned about feeling down this winter, you can go into the season with a game plan to get through it with a smile.
As the clocks go back on Sunday, thousands of local people will be dreading the effect the darker nights will have on their mood and overall wellbeing. Reduced exposure to sunlight results in them feeling depressed and lethargic – and in extreme cases can severely affect everything from their work performance to their relationships with others.
Plenty of people experience a hint of the winter blues as harsh weather keeps us shut up indoors, but seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a more serious form of depression. Fortunately, there are effective forms of treatment.
Digital Minimalism is the effort to gain back control over your attention span and spend more time on the things that matter. Give Digital Minimalism a go with these ideas and notice how much more productive and happier you become.
Stress is the most common culprit for mood swings. Lifestyle choices massively impact the internal chemistry your body is running on.
Although mood swings are common, we aren’t always sure why they happen and how to control them exactly. Sometimes the intensity of our current emotions doesn’t have an explanation, and we find ourselves questioning everything that surrounds us. By understanding your feelings better you can steps towards establishing control over them.
If you are feeling the winter blues why not try a little escape with a free “virtual” holiday and find your happy place. Escape is key to our mental self-care, and it can be good to seek a happy escape when things are blue – that feeling of “I just need to get away”.
Depression is a real illness with real symptoms – it hijacks the mind and body, and it can affect individuals in many different ways, physically and emotionally.