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Tag: well-being

How to Make Difficult Choices

Life is filled with many choices.  Some are relatively easy to make like what to where, your favorite color, or what you want to eat for dinner (okay, maybe that last one isn’t so easy).  Some choices, those life changing choices, are more difficult. Choices like what you want to be when your grow up,…
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Overcoming Perfectionism like a Stoic Philosopher

Overcoming Perfectionism like a Stoic Philosopher

Perfectionism is the pursuit of “perfect” where anything less is failure.  It requires constant judgement of oneself or others, and demands nothing less than 100%.  It is living by a set of impossible standards. These standards might be self-imposed based on a belief that that’s what others want, imposed by others onto us, or imposed…
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Caregiving: Practicing Self-Care During Emergency Hospitalizations

Caregiving: Practicing Self-Care During Emergency Hospitalizations

Caring for a loved one with a mental or physical injury or illness is often a thankless job.  Its exhausting, stressful, time consuming, frustrating, and draining. Often it’s not a job one chooses to do, but nevertheless, it needs to be done.  And it’s often done with pride and love. While caregiving for a loved…
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How to Practice Sisu Daily

How to Practice Sisu Daily

Sisu can be understood as a characteristic, a spirit, an attitude, an approach, or a philosophy of life.  What these descriptions all have in common is that they are enduring, consistent, and most of all, take daily practice to grow, manage, and develop over time.  Sisu doesn’t develop out of grand accomplishments.  It takes daily…
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How does therapy work

How Does Counseling Work?

Recently someone asked me, “How does counseling work?”  It wasn’t until that question that I realized therapy is a rather mysterious experience.  Sometimes it honestly seems like magic happens because its difficult to pinpoint what exactly creates lasting change and growth in therapy. The short, mechanical answer to the question, “How does therapy work?” is…
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The Finnish Way by Katja Pantzar

BOOK REVIEW: The Finnish Way by Katja Pantzar

Pages:  225 Ideal Reader:  Someone looking for a holistic practical approach to better mental health and overall well-being. Ideal Issues Addressed: Personal Growth Mild Anxiety & Depression Disconnecion from Nature Alternative coping strategies for mental health concerns to combine with therapy. Summary: This book provides a practical “guide” or suggestions to creating and having a…
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How to Increase Well-Being by Changing the Way You Speak

The way we speak is often a reflection of how we view the world, ourselves, and others.  Words are used to shape our perceptions in order to understand people, their motives, and their intentions.  Words are used to communicate and to think. However, some of these words that are commonly used are a danger to…
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