It is incredibly difficult to practice self-care, adopt healthy habits or build strong and healthy relationships with others if you don’t know how to love yourself properly or what it takes to love yourself. And what it takes to love yourself is a pretty wide array of qualities and skills such as self-awareness, kindness, courage, faith, humility, and a certain…
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Build a positive, appreciative and respectful relationship with your body and yourself.
9 Steps to pull yourself out of a downward spiral
Feeling overwhelmed again? How do you get yourself out of a downward spiral and pull yourself back up? The problem when you finally regain “control” over your life (after recovering from depression, for example), is that it is no guarantee that you won’t have to do it all again. Or that you won’t feel overwhelmed again, later down the road.…
How can you love your body when you hate your looks?
Full disclosure: I don’t hate my looks. Well, not anymore. But I used to. I was so skinny I thought I looked perpetually sick. It was nearly impossible to find clothes that fit me properly so I often looked ridiculous. On top of that, my hair had become a hot mess and so, for the last 4-5 years of my…
How do you deal with extreme sadness alone? 7 unique strategies that actually work
Did you know you can deal with sadness alone? After almost two decades of allowing myself to be crushed by my sadness and overwhelmingly painful emotions, the pain had become so unbearable, I could not go on like this anymore. Even though I was alone and had virtually no emotional support, I had to find ways to overcome my sadness…
19 powerful affirmations for the depressed and insecure millennial
The quality of your thoughts will determine the quality of your life. Unfortunately, when you are deep into depression, you probably don’t even realize how much 1) your thoughts are 1 000 % crappy, and 2) how much it affects your mood, relationships, finances… your whole life! Fortunately, and contrary to what most people think, you can change your thoughts,…