Do you ever wonder why there are so many struggles with low grade anxiety and stress in recent years? If you go back 50 to 100 years ago, the numbers are completely different. You don’t even have to go that far. This article from Psychology Today says that Gallop found that people in the US […]
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Working parents have the best of both worlds. It is hard. Saying it again for those in the back, it is both great, and hard. For me, the difficulty doesn’t come in rushing home from work, meal planning to make the most of time in the evening, or even in making the most of the
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Stress and subsequently anxiety are on the rise in America. It has been for more than a decade but is now increasing even further throughout the pandemic. Healthcare, money, and the economy have been the most common stressors for years. According to Med Alert Help the stress experienced from the pandemic, particularly by Millennials, eclipses
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Work is often seen as drudgery. How often have you heard people say, it isn’t meant to be fun, it’s work? But if you use work as a way to feel accomplished and confident it suddenly is rewarding. It doesn’t matter if it is life changing complex work or lugging a bucket around. You can
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When I was a kid I thought we were well off. As a real young kid, like 4 and under probably, my dad was able to stay home with us. My mom worked but was always around in the summer. We got to go camping and to visit family. As I got a little older
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I started writing this blog as an outlet but with this glimmer of a dream of what it could build to become. There was a time when I needed all the support and I couldn’t fathom being able to pour into anyone else because my cup had just been dipped into too many times to
What does it mean to have an attitude of gratitude? To live life thankfully and humbly? These catch phrases pop up frequently this time of year on social media, on mugs, and fire place mantels all over the country. But what does it mean? It has to be more than a gratitude practice throughout the
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How often have you heard people tell you, you’re going to miss this, when referring to how you’re currently experience a stage in life? How do you typically react? Does it help you reset your perspective and focus on the positives walking away from that conversation more thankful for the current moment than before? Or
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Recently I find myself in a position of feeling incredibly calm in a time when the world around me seems to be moving a hundred miles a minute. It is not that things are wrong or that something terrible happened there is just a lot happening that leaves us all worn out at the end
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I ran approximately 14 miles. I have never before run that distance and prior to deciding I would, the farthest I’d run was about 7.5. To be honest even that was a while ago; once in the last 5 years I ran 5, and sort of by accident. In fact, I wouldn’t have called myself
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