Mental Health – Page 10

The Benefits of Meditation and How to Get Started Today

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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Meditation:

Benefits: reduce stress and anxiety, lower down blood pressure, alleviate headache, improve digestive complaints, improve mood
Types: breathing exercises, gratitude, focus, visualizations, self-compassion, alleviate pain and suffering

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6 Things You Can Do When You Are Feeling Lonely or Depressed

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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What You Can Do When Feeling Lonely or Depressed:

1. Don’t Suppress It. Some people have the notion that since emotions are irrational by nature, they should suppress it. This is not necessarily the best way to deal with heavy emotions. Remember, humans are by nature emotional beings. It’s okay to be sad, to feel frustrated, to grieve, or be disappointed. It is perfectly normal. Avoiding or bottling up those feelings does not allow us to move on from them. Yes, some emotions can be uncomfortable, even painful, but just remember emotions come and go and don’t last forever.

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How to Stop Worrying

Available for Interviews: Roger Hall.

Dr. Roger Hall has a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, is an Executive Coach to entrepreneurs and leaders, and is an in-demand public speaker. He is author of Staying Happy Being Productive: The Big 10 Things Successful People Do and Expedition.

Talking Points from Roger Hall
on Worrying:

Worry is not fear. It is anticipatory fear. It is malignant advance planning

Fear is productive. Fear is self-preserving. When motivational speakers tell you that you want to live beyond fear they’re encouraging you to live in a way that’s likely to get you killed.

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4 Steps to Dealing With Panic Attacks

Available for Interviews: Colleen Cira, PsyD

Dr. Colleen Cira is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in Trauma and anxiety and has worked with hundreds of people who have struggled with panic attacks.

A panic attack occurs when your sympathetic nervous system responds as though you are in danger. A number of reactions can occur: one may feel hot (or alternatively, cold), dizzy, lightheaded, short of breath, rapid heart rate, etc. It can be really scary, especially if you don’t know what’s going on or feel powerless over the feelings. Here are a few things you can do to stop a panic attack in its tracks:

1) Understand what you are experiencing. Recognize it for what it is: simply a panic attack. You are not in danger. You will not pass out (research is clear about this even though it might feel otherwise). You are not ill. It’s just your perfectly healthy, normal nervous system doing what it does best. Once you feel clear that this is actually a panic attack (as opposed to something else you need to worry about), you can just deal with what’s happening. Continue reading “4 Steps to Dealing With Panic Attacks”

Two Fears That Will Hold You Back in 2021

Available for Interviews: Dr. Travis Parry

Travis Parry, PhD, is a speaker, coach, and educator and has a passion for helping others in achieve a healthy work/life balance. Parry is also the author of the #1 bestseller, Achieving Balance: Make Time to Reach Your Business and Personal Goals in an Overworked World.

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Fears That Can Affect One’s Life in a Negative Way:

- What holds people back the most in setting and achieving goals are the fears that they face. Subconsciously they are keeping you from moving forward while consciously they are actually motivating you, and thereby creating a tug of war in your mind that causes a lot of stress.

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Politics Making You Feel Anxious? Here are 4 Nonpartisan Self-Care Tips

Available for interviews: Dr. Colleen Cira

Dr. Colleen Cira is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in Women and Trauma, and has worked with hundreds of people struggling with mental health issues.

There is a lot going on in terms of Psychophysiology when trauma is being felt—or in other words, our brains affect our body and visa versa. This information is imperative when it comes to learning how to calm our bodies and re-regulate our nervous system.

Talking Points from Dr. Cira On Political Anxiety:

Sometimes politics can impact our mental health, especially when the times are highly polarizing or when the stakes seem particularly crucial and the climate chaotic. This can lead us to feel exhausted, confused, and angry.

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6 Steps to Creating Healthier Habits in 2021

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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The 6 Steps to Creating Healthier Habits for 2021:

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” – Benjamin Franklin

If you go around asking people about whether or not they would like to get rid of their bad habits, you’d probably get close to 100% yes. Now ask the same group of people how successful have they been in getting rid of bad habits, and you’re sure to get a much smaller success rate. Why do you think this is the case? Isn’t determination enough to get rid of bad habits or build healthy ones?

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3 Steps to Coping When You Can’t See Family for the Holidays

Available for Interviews: Dr. Colleen Cira:

Dr. Colleen Cira is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in Women and Trauma, and has worked with hundreds of people struggling with mental health issues.

Talking Points from Dr. Cira On Coping Steps
When You Can’t See Your Family for the Holidays

What we’re talking about here is the importance of boundaries. That’s what it means to tell your family that you can’t see them for the Holidays. You are setting a boundary with them. And while it can be normal to feel guilty when you feel like you’re disappointing someone, the degree to which you feel guilt can be helpful data about how comfortable you are setting boundaries. Here are some helpful tips for managing that guilt (and flexing your boundary muscle):

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5 Healthy Tips to Handle Holiday Stress

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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Healthy Tips to Handle Holiday Stress:

The holidays are usually a wonderful time of year to spend with family, eat delicious food, put up bright lights and decorations, and engage in fun and festivities. Normally we might be experiencing the stress of traveling, shopping, cooking, and even spending too much time with family. However, this year comes with a pandemic reality and everyone is affected in some way shape or form. Then, for many the dark, gloomy weather isn’t exactly helpful in getting one into the holiday spirit. If the holiday season isn’t all full of joy, cheer, and laughter this year, you might want to consider these helpful tips to get you through the end of the year and through the winter:

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