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Get Rid of Negative Habits and Live a Positive Life
Emotions happen and they come over and over again. Changing your emotions can be hard and in order to do this, you have to be able to change your behaviors. Some people will respond to their emotions negatively and if you are easily aggravated or negative then you will always expect things to go wrong in your life. You may be someone that is bitter by all of the things that have happened and so you automatically respond negatively when life gets hard. How do you become happy? How long do you have to pretend to be happy to actually feel it? Being positive can help you to change your…
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Learn to Let Go of Stress and Live a Happier Life
When you live a life of stress, it can cause you all kinds of mental and physical problems. The best thing that you can do in your life is to release your stress. This can be hard, but you have to learn to do that. Nature Go out in nature and spend time. Doing this can take away your stress. Walk barefoot in the grass, have a picnic, or even just go for a sim. Exercise Take time each day to exercise your body. When you do this, it can take away your stress and make you healthier. This advice is easy, but you can also make a list of…
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10 Ways to Deal with Bullying
Bullying is a huge problem today. While it was something limited to the schoolyard in decades past, bullying has found new avenues to exhibit itself in modern society. It could be a co-worker or a boss, or someone online. It could even be a family member. There is no reason to allow this behavior to cripple you. It may be hard to learn to stand up for yourself but failing to do so will have you pegged as a target your entire life. Here are 10 ways to end and recover from bullying: Tell someone. The most important thing you can do to end bullying is to tell someone. This…
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Positive Parenting Can Change Your Life
Just because you are good at some things in your life does not mean that you are a great parent. Most people that are parents are good at certain things such as being a manager, working at their job or a variety of skills. We all know that there are rules, and we have things that we are able to work through in life and this is all great if you want to be a positive parent. When something is simple, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is going to be easy. Things are hard in life right now and with the new living and the pandemic, living life can…
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7 Impactful Mood Boosters
To get through this storm we call life, we must cultivate a resilient mindset. It is important to work in ways that lift yourself and others upward. We must find the safe harbors, where we can rest and recharge. To help you improve your inner strength and resolve we have compiled a list of seven ways you can improve your mood today. Hit pause: You don’t have to react to every little thing. Understand what stress is yours to carry and what you leave by the side of the road. Release things that drag you down: Do you find yourself shopping for things you never use, or saving items from…
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7 Ways to Replace Toxic Positivity with Value Words
Many people try to help friends and family when they face something unpleasant. It could be a job loss, a death, or just a daily crisis. While they intend to offer hope and promise, sometimes their words just add to the pain. This is what is called toxic positivity. Toxic positivity is defined as the overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state that results in the denial, minimization, and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience. Examples of Toxic Positivity There are examples of this behavior all around. Some easy examples are those who ignore, downplay or dismiss emotions after a traumatic event. Another sign of it is to pretend everything…
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Single Parenting 101
There are around a quarter of the homes in the United States that are single mother homes and there are other families that have single fathers. This number has been rising steadily over the years with divorce and with death. Single parenting is something that has become very common in life, but it doesn’t mean that being a single parent has gotten easy. If you are a single parent or if you have been single parenting for quite some time, you know that it can be challenging and it can be hard to have a balance in your life, your job and spending the quality time with your children that…
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Tips for Single Parents
If you are recently divorced or you have recently stepped into the role of a single parent, what are some things that you need to remember? Being single probably is not your plan and you probably never thought that you would be raising your kids alone when you expected to be with your partner forever. Every parent is different, and they parent differently. But three are some things that are important for all single parents to know. Be Easy on You Do not beat yourself up about things. The house will get cleaned and things will be cooked, and you will get your job done. If things do not always…
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Are You Emotionally Available?
Have you ever been with someone that was with you but in their emotions, they were far from you? Is there a way to change someone that is emotionally unavailable or to even change yourself? How can you meet someone that will be emotionally available to you? No one deserves to be with someone that is not available to them. When you are available in your emotions, you try harder and you desire to have a better life and a better future. If you want to be emotionally available to someone that you love, you have to make sure that you are giving yourself the emotional availability that you need.…
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Ruining Your Love Life Without Realizing It
Life is not meant to be hurried through or rushed and it also doesn’t mean that you should give up on things that you have never accomplished in your life. Life is meant to be loved and enjoyed and there are moments where you should learn to have fun and to enjoy your life. What You are Doing When you were in middle school, you would want boys to notice you and you would do things to get their attention like smile at the boys or dressing to please them. Even if you don’t know what you are doing, you want people to notice you and this is an age…