What are coping skills? Coping skills are the thoughts and behaviors you engage in that help you manage distressing situations. They can be divided into emotion-focused and problem-focused. Emotion focused coping skills help you feel better, but they don’t change your situation. They help you manage your reaction to the situation. Problem focused skills are […]
How To Rig Your Body Temperature For Deep Sleep
Deep sleep is one of four stages of sleep and is what you need to wake up feeling rested. It also helps with your memory and promotes cellular growth and repair. It’s like putting your body in maintenance mode. You can help your body maximize your deep sleep potential by manipulating your body temperature. You […]
Your Gut and Your Mood
Your intestines has about 39 trillion microorganisms in it. And yes I said trillion. We call this collection of organisms the microbiome and it consists of mostly bacteria, but also viruses and fungi. Collectively it weighs about 3 pounds which is about the same weight as your brain. We feed these organisms and they produce […]
Prepare Yourself for the Day with a Relaxed Morning Routine
Mornings don’t have a great rap, and no wonder. We’re usually so busy dragging ourselves out of bed, feeding the kids and getting them ready, looking for our presentation folder, and trying to do something about the hair we didn’t have time to style, it feels like we can’t find a spare second to cultivate […]
Anxiety Help
Help for anxiety can come through medication and non-medication options. Medication The mainstay of medication treatment for anxiety disorders is the serotonin-enhancing antidepressants like the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (Prozac, Lexapro, Zoloft) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (Cymbalta and Effexor). Even though these medications are anti-depressants, we also use them to treat anxiety disorders like Generalized […]
The Connection Between Anxiety and Stomach Problems
There’s a bidirectional relationship between gastrointestinal disorders and anxiety. This relationship is thought to be controlled by a gut-brain connection. Research studies have concluded that there is signaling between the gut and the brain that affects the way we think and behave. So what does this mean? It means that having a disorder like GERD […]