How to Help Loved Ones Understand Your Chronic Illness & Limits

How to Help Loved Ones Understand Your Chronic Illness & Limits

Living with a chronic illness can be difficult and sometimes lonely when others don’t understand the limits you have. The people in your life who care about you deserve to know how they can help and support you. Additionally, having that support can boost your spirits...
Tips for Work – Life Balance when Working From Home During COVID

Tips for Work – Life Balance when Working From Home During COVID

At first, working from home may have seemed like a really good thing. Not having to face COVID-19 daily while earning your paycheck from the couch wasn’t so bad in the scheme of things. In fact, you might’ve found you accomplished much more without commutes, coffee...
4 Ways Mindfulness Helps Self-Compassion

4 Ways Mindfulness Helps Self-Compassion

More and more, mindfulness is being shown to offer incredible benefits for both physical and emotional health, including greater self-compassion. Mindfulness encompasses several main ideas and goals. These include increasing our awareness of the present moment and...
Limiting our Experience of Suffering

Limiting our Experience of Suffering

No one wants to experience pain or suffering.  Just as we are hard wired to physically recoil from a hot stove, we are hard wired to want to avoid emotional pain and heartache. Yet, sometimes we find ourselves stuck “marinating” in the misery or making our pain more...
Facing Relationship Challenges as a Team During Trying Times

Facing Relationship Challenges as a Team During Trying Times

Life will always have a certain amount of trials and challenges to face, and 2020 has given us more than our fair share it seems. Instead of turning on one another, though, how can couples face the challenging issues as a team… and win? Have you tried taking an...