HEAL featuring Joan Borysenko.
00:43 min
CLEAR ALL
“If you really loved me...” “After all I’ve done for you...” “How can you be so selfish...
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.
How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y.
If you’ve suffered from sleep problems, hyperreactivity, persistent grief, or inescapable worry about the future―especially triggered by the nonstop news cycle―then you’re probably dealing with emotional inflammation. The good news is: there’s something you can do about it.
Even before the pandemic brought on a crushing wave of stress, anxiety, isolation, life change, and financial struggle, there was already a growing mental health crisis. Due to a culture that encourages perfection, hustle, and fictional life/work balance, many are burning out.
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More than forty simple breathing exercises to help you transform your physical and mental health and improve performance and emotional well-being. We take between seventeen to twenty-nine thousand breaths per day.
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When Oxford published Emotion and Adaptation, the landmark 1991 book on the psychology of emotion by internationally acclaimed stress and coping expert Richard Lazarus, Contemporary Psychology welcomed it as "a brightly shining star in the galaxy of such volumes.
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Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.