Author: Amanda Smith, LCSW
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Top Ways To Solve Conflict
As a therapist, I’ve helped a lot of people solve conflict within their personal and/or professional relationships. I’ve found that there is often a direct correlation between interpersonal conflict and intrapersonal distress. Taking care of your mental health depends heavily on fostering and maintaining healthy relationships. And since conflict is an inevitable part of most…
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Emotional Self Care Ideas
Taking good care of your emotional health is one of the best things you can do for yourself. There are countless areas of research focused on the overall health benefits of attending the matters of the mind. In the United States, and many other countries, there is a well established energy put towards improving our…
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How to Change Your Self Care
Your Self Care Is Affected By How You Think, Feel, and Act Practicing good self care is easiest when you have healthy thoughts, feelings, and actions. Think about it. When you are flooded with negative thoughts, it creates negative emotions and you often end up losing any and all motivation. This happens all of the…
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Master Self Care In 5 Simple Steps
Mastering self-care is all about knowing yourself and what you need. The more we learn and understand about ourselves the more we can start to develop a self-care plan that gets results. Try following these steps to work to learn more about yourself and become an expert in your own self-care.
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Self Care Tips From A Therapist
Licensed therapist here with some self care tips and tricks for your everyday life. In my practice, I see lots of people who want to build and enhance their self care. I love going through this journey with them and I, myself, have learned a few things along the way. Focus On Your Own Self…
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Practicing Mindfulness: What I’ve Learned
So I have a confession. I am not as well versed in the practice of mindfulness as some other therapists. I identify most with cognitive approaches to therapy, so early on in my career I didn’t really give it a chance. To be completely honest, I never bought into it because I never fully dove…
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Essential Self Care Tips and Tricks
I bet you think that I’m going to tell you exactly how to practice self care. Well, I am. But this is not your typical trendy list of prescriptive self care tasks. The way I look at it, true and essential self care comes from a way of thinking more than a list of doing.…
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Positive Self Talk Works
Did you know that we talk to ourselves all of the time? Sometimes we aren’t even aware of the thoughts that we are telling ourselves throughout the day. The way that we think about ourselves, and the way that our inner voice interacts with us, can really affect the way that we handle things in…
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Self Care Confession
Sorry to burst your self care bubble, but just because I know a lot about self care doesn’t mean I always take the best care of myself. I talk about this stuff for a living. Yet I still catch myself ignoring my self care needs from time to time. Self Care Confession: turns out therapists…
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Today’s Joyful Things
One of my very favorite things to do is to ask people to look around and find three things that bring them joy. Without further ado, here is a list of today’s joyful things brought to you by my fabulous groupinar friends: The Joyful Things Colouring! Hot tea. Rain on the windows. singing. Smelling flowers.…