Posts Tagged ‘Anxiety’
5 Steps to Help You Reduce Test Anxiety and Make It Through Your Finals
Reduce Test Anxiety and Make It Through Your Finals The moment you enter the classroom you feel that dread rising within you. Today is the big test—the finals! You glance around to gauge how everyone else is feeling. Some chat with excitement, some smiling faces, and a few in quiet contemplation. You wonder, “are they…
Read MoreFood, Serotonin, and Depression: Improve Your Diet and Boost Your Mood
Improve Your Diet and Boost Your Mood You’re feeling down, out-of-sorts, and unmotivated. Before you know it, you find yourself binging on chocolates, pastries, and soft drinks. Somehow, stuffing yourself with sweets and starchy carbohydrates chases that dark cloud that’s been hanging over your head away… at least for a time. Why? The Connection Between…
Read MoreYou’re Not Missing Out! – 6 Simple Ways to Get Rid of Your FOMO
6 Simple Ways to Get Rid of Your FOMO OMG, you haven’t checked your social media accounts in the last hour? Do you have any idea what you’re missing out on?Your cousin shared pictures from the awesome party she went to last weekend. Your club buddies posted another episode of the travel log from their…
Read MoreFuture Tripping: The Risk of Obsessing About “What Ifs” and How to Prevent It
The Risk of Obsessing About What Ifs and How to Prevent It Taking a mental journey into the future. Dreaming about your goals. That can actually be stimulating, motivating, inspiring. The problem starts when your dreams become worries and your journey resembles more a psychedelic horror trip than a blissful daydream. You may find your…
Read More10 Simple Ways You can Help Your Child Cope with Anxiety
It’s hard enough for adults to deal with anxiety, how much more so for children. The confusing thoughts, the worries, the discomfort, the roller coaster feelings of panic and helplessness. It can really be frightening – not just for your child, but also for you. Naturally, as parents, you want to protect our child from…
Read MoreDoes Your Child Have Asperger’s? 10 Signs to Look For
“His words were gushing out like a waterfall. I watched him pace back and forth in the room, recounting the statistics he had read in a book about baseball – his great passion. I knew a lot of people didn’t understand him. They often found his behavior annoying and odd. “All his life, he had…
Read MoreOCD in Children: 7 Warning Signs Your Child May Need Help
You are running late as you try to get the kids out of the house and into the car for school drop off. You anxiously wait while your 10 year old has once again neatly emptied his backpack and is checking to make sure his homework is complete and filed in the 3rd pocket of…
Read MoreCBT and Depression: What Makes CBT So Effective?
“I want that report on my desk, today!” Your boss demands, standing in the doorway of his office. “I don’t have time for you’re excuses; just get it done!” He disappears back into the adjacent room. You pause a moment, looking over the paperwork on your desk, then the computer screen. A deep sigh. Will you…
Read MoreActs of Terrorism: How to Talk to Your Children
Smoke rising into the sky from burning towers. Derailed train cars split open by a blast. Special forces lining up outside a building. Covered bodies lying strewn about. Repeated gunshots ringing out. Crowds fleeing in panic. Bodies being carried out of a pile of rubble. Those are the visual images of acts of terrorism. More…
Read MoreOvercoming Anxiety and Worry with Mindfulness
Overcoming Anxiety and Worry with Mindfulness In Pali, the term is sati; in Sanskrit, it’s smrti. British scholar Thomas William Rhys Davids translated this as mindfulness. Sati is literally translated as “memory,” but it’s rarely used alone. It appears constantly in the phrase “mindful and thoughtful” and generally refers to a presence of mind which…
Read More7 Ways To Help Your Child or Teen Cope With The Back To School Blues
7 Ways To Help Your Child or Teen Cope With The Back To School Blues As July comes to a close, summer’s end looms just a few weeks away. For many schools, the fall semester begins in mid- late August which means there are only a few weeks left to enjoy a relaxed schedule, play…
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