Emotional Health Tips

How to Stop Criticizing Yourself

How to Stop Criticizing Yourself

Is your inner critic stopping you from living fully, taking healthy risks, believing in yourself? These ways to stop criticizing yourself are from transformational coach Gini Grey. Her tips range from acknowledging your inner critic to centering within yourself. “Nag, doubt, warn, and judge is what the inner critic does best,” says Grey. “And we [...]

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How Do You Talk to Your Children About Cancer?

How Do You Talk to Your Children About Cancer?

Written by on June 14, 2009 in Emotional Health Tips, Grief & Recovery Tips, Healing with 13 Comments

These tips will help parents tell kids about a cancer diagnosis. Knowing how to talk to your children about cancer may be one of the the most difficult parts of being diagnosed. When my friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, her first thought how she’d tell her family members. These suggestions for talking to kids [...]

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Binge Eating Treatment – How to Stop Overeating

Binge Eating Treatment – How to Stop Overeating

Written by on June 3, 2009 in Emotional Health Tips, Mind & Soul, Psychology Tips with 5 Comments

These binge eating treatment tips will help you learn how to stop overeating, mindless eating, and emotional eating. These “food addiction” tips are from Dr Talia Witkowski, who once struggled with a food addiction. She has a doctorate in psychology; she specialized in eating disorders and addictions in school – while addicted to food. “I was [...]

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Signs of Emotional Problems, Plus 3 Steps to Emotional Freedom

Signs of Emotional Problems, Plus 3 Steps to Emotional Freedom

Not all emotional problems are easy to recognize, especially since different people experience different emotional health issues in different ways! These signs of emotional or mental health issues include three steps to emotional freedom, plus links to Judith Orloff’s books on emotional healing. “Feelings are like waves: we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one [...]

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Overcoming Perfectionism – 5 Ways to Live With Not Being Perfect

Overcoming Perfectionism – 5 Ways to Live With Not Being Perfect

Written by on May 13, 2009 in Emotional Health Tips, Psychology Tips with 22 Comments

Overcoming perfectionism isn’t just about accepting you’ll never be perfect – it’s about EMBRACING your imperfectionisms, flaws, weaknesses! Your warts make you unique and, ironically, more charming. Your imperfections make you lovable.  Perfectionism creates stress and anxiety; self-acceptance leads to happiness and peace. Before the tips, a quip: “I went for years not finishing anything,” [...]

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6 Tips for Managing Stress for Moms

6 Tips for Managing Stress for Moms

These tips on managing stress for moms are from Judith Orloff, MD, psychiatry professor and bestselling author of Emotional Freedom. “It’s not surprising that mothers report higher levels of stress than any other age group,” says Dr Orloff. “Mothers by definition are caretakers. They take care of kids and partners, elderly parents, family pets, shopping and [...]

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5 Tips for Helping a Grieving Friend

5 Tips for Helping a Grieving Friend

If your friend is grieving a death or loss, it can be hard to know what to say. These tips for helping a grieving friend are from the author of a book about surviving grief – Jane Galbraith. She explains why talking about the loved one your friend lost is so important: “Who hasn’t felt like [...]

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7 Important Tools for Personal Growth and Self-Development

7 Important Tools for Personal Growth and Self-Development

If you haven’t found the right tools for personal growth and self-development, then you haven’t read this article! These important tips are from Cynthia Morgan, a LA-based hypnotherapist. “Improving your life requires improving your perceptions,” she says. What are your perceptions of your life? How do your perceptions change your thoughts and actions? That’s how you [...]

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The Best Anti Aging Tips to Help You Feel Good and Look Better

The Best Anti Aging Tips to Help You Feel Good and Look Better

These are the seven best anti aging tips to help you feel good and look better – and they don’t involve Botox, cosmetic plastic surgery, or weight loss! These anti aging tips are from a fantastic book called  70 Ways to Beat 70. I love this book because it includes tips for everything from increasing your sense of [...]

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5 Ways to Balance Your Life

Transformational coach Gini Grey shares five ways to balance your life – which will help you achieve your goals, decrease your stress level, and make you feel calm and happy.  First, a quip about living a balanced life from the author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: “Live a balanced life – learn some [...]

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