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 […]
Are You An Emotional Sponge?
Do you seem to take on other people’s emotions and then have trouble managing them? In this video I answer a viewer question and discuss two reason you can be an emotional sponge: I also discuss 5 ways to stop being an emotional sponge. If you have trouble recognizing your emotions, you can use emotions […]
Overcome Your Nightmares
How To Overcome Your Nightmares – Rescript Them Anyone can have nightmares for any reason. But some things that can cause nightmares are anxiety, depression, medications, pain and even eating too soon before you go to bed. Nightmares are common in people who have had a traumatic experience. In these cases, the nightmares tend to […]
How Some Medications And Alcohol Hurt Your Sleep
Unfortunately, there are many medications that can interfere with your ability to sleep. It may be that your insomnia is nothing more than an unwanted side effect from a medication that you’re taking to help you with a separate problem. But because there are so many factors that affect sleep, it’s important to rule […]
Relax Your Body and Mind with Proper Breath
Stress limits us in so many ways. It throws our bodies into fight-or-flight mode, raising our heart rates and escalating our emotions. It prevents us from making rational decisions and responding to the people we love (or have to work with) calmly and in the manner we ourselves want to be spoken to. And, frankly, […]