When life gets really busy, it’s easy to forget to take care of yourself. But practicing self-care is crucial to one’s holistic health and can have great benefits for your mental, emotional and physical health. Clinical psychologist Agnes Wainman defines self-care as “something that refuels us, rather than takes from u...
We've all heard this before 'what you eat is what you are'. To help you be the best version of yourself, here are 3 healthy eating tips that are simple and wholesome energy boosters. Has your energy been dipping to low levels for the past few weeks? You might have turned to sugar or caffeine to get that temporary energy reserve, more commonly known as sugar high or caffeine rush. This quick fix might get you through that particular night doing overtime. However, if you keep doing it over and over, this band-aid solution will have an adverse effect on your energy in the long run. What you can do to sustain that energy is to practice mindful eating. As...
Is emotional well-being one of the goals on your list? Ever notice how, when we try to change to make their lives better, the most popular goals we choose are getting more exercise, losing weight, giving up a vice such as smoking and so on? Don’t get me wrong, those are awesome goals. But perhaps one important goal that doesn’t make the popular list is improving your emotional well-being. Yet when you consider how essential mental health is and how depression and anxiety is more prevalent today, doesn’t it make sense to aim for a more positive emotional state? The better we are able to understand our emotions, the greater our capability will be to enjoy life, cope with stress and...
In whatever situation you're in right now, realise that mindset work will help you no matter where you are in life - it's always something that's going to improve your life and help you reach whatever your goals are. The sooner you realise that and the sooner you start to implement mindset work every day, the better off you will be.
The advent of phones and other technologies has given us more excuses than ever to tune-out the world around us and just focus on video, media, and the superficial. This has led to a real disconnect when communicating face-to-face with colleagues, friends, family or the people around us. Fewer people than ever have the communication skills they need to carry out an engaging conversation where both sides feel like they are truly connecting with the other.