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Create Sustainable Habits This January.
January is a time for resolutions, yet many struggle to maintain new habits. This content highlights the importance of setting small, achievable goals rather than overwhelming targets. It outlines a four-step process for habit formation: cue, craving, response, and reward, encouraging incremental progress and environmental awareness to support lasting change.
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Healthy Boundaries for a Stress-Free Christmas
The post discusses the importance of setting healthy boundaries during the emotionally and physically taxing Christmas season. It emphasizes the need to prioritize personal needs, communicate changes, and assert oneself despite potential family backlash. Practicing self-care is highlighted as essential for emotional well-being, allowing individuals to reclaim their worth and happiness.
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Boosting Confidence and Self-Esteem.
Many people struggle with low confidence and self-esteem, often due to an inner critic, past experiences, and a tendency to prioritize others’ needs. Confidence can be developed through practice, while self-esteem relates to self-worth. Setting boundaries and challenging negative beliefs are crucial steps towards improvement. Seeking counseling may provide valuable support.
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Healing from Emotional Triggers: Tips for Self-Discovery
Understanding emotional triggers is essential for self-care and personal growth. These triggers can stem from buried experiences and beliefs, leading to overwhelming emotions and unhelpful behaviors. By identifying and reflecting on these triggers, individuals can uncover their origins and learn to respond with compassion, ultimately fostering healing and healthier relationships.
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Healing from Toxic Parenting: A Guide
Children look to their parents to care for them and nurture their physical and mental well-being. In the eyes of children, the parent can do no wrong. If anything, the child blames themselves for any ruptures within the parent/child relationship. We want to please our parents and to make them proud of us. We internalise…
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How to Set Boundaries with Co-Dependent Parents
The content discusses a client’s struggle with a co-dependent relationship with his mother, who undermines his independence through constant meddling and emotional manipulation. It highlights the detrimental effects of parentification and emphasizes the importance of setting boundaries as a means of self-care and enacting personal autonomy to mitigate feelings of guilt and anxiety.
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Understanding Parentification and Its Adult Impact
Parentification occurs when a child takes on adult responsibilities, impacting their childhood and leading to challenges in adulthood. Trish, a parentified child, faced anxiety and burnout due to her caretaking role. Therapy helped her establish boundaries, foster self-compassion, and recognize that she is not responsible for her mother’s wellbeing, facilitating her healing.
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