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Our bodies aren't designed to feel stressed and anxious all the time. Chronic stress can affect your heart, muscles, nervous system, digestion, and sexual functioning. It's important to learn healthy ways to cope with stress and anxiety when we can't calm down. In addition to the mindful awareness exercises I outlined in a previous blog, the following relaxation exercises can …
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Relax Into the New Year Emotions, even difficult ones like anxiety, are an essential part of life. They are there to help us respond to what is happening in the world and to the people around us. They evolved to protect us, keep us safe, and keep us connected to other human beings. But because the world we live in today is very different from the world our brains evolved to …
Where does the inner critic come from? We are all born needing to be connected and needing to be cared for, loved, and valued. As we grow, this broadens into the need to be part of a group and to be wanted and valued by the group. If these needs are met, we feel safe and content and as though we have a place in the world. If we don't receive adequate care and nurturing from our …
