Navigating Love and Loss: Healing the Heart Through Self-Care and Self-Worth
Explore healing from heartache with self-care, self-compassion, and values-based dating. Learn how to navigate love and loss, while building self-worth and embracing self-growth for a fulfilling life.
7 Strategies to Master Emotional Excitability and Enhance Your Life
Emotional excitability refers to a heightened sensitivity and reactivity to emotional experiences. Individuals who experience this often feel emotions—both positive and negative—with great intensity and urgency. While this can fuel creativity, empathy, and connection, it can also create challenges in relationships, daily functioning, and overall mental health. Let’s explore what emotional excitability is, what causes […]
The National Day of Prayer
When we first looked up at the skies and felt alone, when we lose our beloved family member, when our hearts have been broken, and when we are traumatized, when we run out of options, and when we are physically in pain, we can pray in our own way. Spirituality is a personal experience and one which is documented as one of the seven protective factors for a deeply fulfilling life.
So today, pray! Pray with song, with dance, with silence, with poetry. Pray with all the beautiful things that remind you of your divine humanity and how much you mean to others and yourself. Self-love is a form of prayer; you deserve to love yourself and be loved for yourself now.
Faith, Change, Power, and Kwanzaa for Us All.
Discover the profound impact of Kwanzaa on personal growth and cultural understanding. Learn how this holiday tradition promotes mindfulness and self-determination and celebrates the rich diversity of American life.
Cory Booker and the Mindful Path to Leadership
We can’t go back, but we can move forward to be more mindful in the future and do our best to convey our best self daily. As a therapist, I can tell you that repair attempts are part of what we teach; how someone cleans up conflict is a tell-tale sign of their integrity. Hopefully, we will be judged on the sum of our actions and what we do for our community rather than on one speech.