self care
For a healthy mind, body, and soul.
I Just Can't, Today.
I don’t care who you are or where you’re from or what you do for a living or how many friends you have…we all have these days. They are real and we all have them. If you want to pretend like you don’t, then that’s fine, but I definitely don’t believe you. These are “the bad days.” Or, at least, that’s what I call mine. If my fiancé asks me what’s wrong and I respond with “just a bad day,” he knows exactly what I mean and exactly how I’m feeling.
By Ashleigh Corriveau8 years ago in Longevity
What Do You Hate about Yourself?
"What do you hate about yourself?" Well, if we're being honest, a lot of thing about me are less than pleasant. I am a complicated creature that loves to simplify my complicated features; I am a man that hates confrontation and a woman that craves conversation. I am an 18-year-old child with a wild imagination that stops when my feet touch the ground; I am a realistic 18-year-old adult that is down to earth and hates when people make impossible interpretations of their own reality.
By Lavon Swygert8 years ago in Longevity
5 Ways to Practice Self-Love
Go ahead. Scroll down until you see numbers and jump right into what you can do for your practice of self-love. I admire your enthusiasm or, at least, your curiosity that compels you to look deeper into another person's perspective on the topic. For those of you that will bother to read this introduction, I expect your practice will be a bit more productive, consistent, and ultimately more successful.
By Micah Cottingham8 years ago in Longevity
Manifesting Autumn Within Ourselves
Autumn is a time of beauty, change, transformation, and recharge. However, amongst all the stress, the shortening days, the growing responsibilities, and the cold weather, it can be very difficult to remember to appreciate all the magic that fall has to offer.
By Deia De Marco8 years ago in Longevity
Various Signals of Stress
Life can be more challenging from time to time, as well as placing too much demand on the mind and body. When this occurs, the human system may react to this through stress which is its natural reaction to a demand or threat of all kind. It is significant to note that not all stress in dangerous. In fact, in some scenarios, it may react to stimuli and maximize output as far as it is within a person essential zone. However, if stress starts to overpower the system, it can be harmful to a person’s cognitive, physical and emotional health.
By Ezeifekwuaba. Tochukwu.8 years ago in Longevity
I'm Starting to Find My Self-Love and I Want You to As Well
Self love is something I've struggled with my whole life. I’m loud and opinionated, but the real problem lies in my weight. I’ve never been a skinny person, not since I gained over 100 lbs in the third grade when I hit puberty (a loaded sentence, I know). My perfect mother raised me saying things like “Are you sure you really want to eat tonight?” to her 8 year old daughter about to eat her dinner and whispering to me behind closed bedroom doors: “You know, there are places where you can get help Elizabeth, to fix your… problem.” Now, I’m not going to just sit here and blame my mother and complain about her and rehash every awful thing that ever happened to me and talk about how awful it was, but I won’t say she didn’t have a part in it either. My mother damaged me, the kids at school damaged me, and I suppose that I did, in fact, damage myself as well somewhere along the way. Most of this is the aftermath of myself.
By Liz Shannon8 years ago in Longevity
Natural Alternatives to Toothpaste
Your smile is a huge factor that doctors (and even scientists) use to figure out how healthy you are. Good oral health will allow you to sidestep thousands in medical bills and dental care bills, so yes, you do need to keep care of your teeth.
By Rowan Marley8 years ago in Longevity
Why You Should Not Ignore Your Pain — Fix It
Emotional battles are the core of women's experiences and existence. Trauma, heartbreak, childhood wounds, physiological ailments, failures in friendships, forced situations, failed communications, peer violent language, mental instability, abusive relationships — are just a small list of the afflictions everyday that creep its way into the innocence and gentleness of our origins. Just this past weekend a close family member of mine was in an atrocious accident. The outlook looked so bleak but this person is living, recovering, and healing today. Life is truly an emotional roller coaster with strong, beautiful highs and deep pits of hideous lows. This battle is real and it should not be pushed down, it should be let out and endured.
By SAYHERNAME Morgan Sankofa8 years ago in Longevity
Negotiating the Cancer Maze
It's never going to be something that you expect. Old, young, middle age, a tiny child, mother, father, sister, brother, aunty, uncle, grandpa, grandma, neice, nephew, friend... we are all in it together because it's an unfair happenstance of life. The moment you hear the news differs for everybody. We are all unique and how we react to the news can have an insight into how we respond to the treatment psychologically. I personally had the mindset of "Right, just tell me everything I need to do from now to get past this," while trying to choke back a sob at the unexpected nature of being told it's worse than we thought. Over the past nine months of dealing with two lymphomas — Non-Hodgkin's and Hodgkin's — at 23 I have mentally collected tidbits of information, knowledge and advice because that's how I naturally handle challenges, so I would like to share these with others who find themselves in this situation and swimming in what often feels like a bottomless pool.
By Emma Smith8 years ago in Longevity
