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How to be kinder to yourself

How to be kinder to yourself

by | Aug 18, 2022 | Health-Wellness-Sex

Learn to identify self-criticism If you’re like many people, your self-criticism has become a deeply ingrained habit – it’s so automatic, you might not even realise you’re doing it.Yet recognising that you’ve fallen into self-criticism is the crucial first step in saving yourself from it and practising more self-compassion. As the psychiatrist Daniel Siegel puts it: ‘Name it to tame it.’ This step involves asking yourself questions that can help you understand your self-critical tendencies, rather than a

Source: How to be kinder to yourself | Psyche Guides

How to empower a teen with ADHD

How to empower a teen with ADHD

by | Jul 24, 2022 | Health-Wellness-Sex

The only thing that helps me focus is if I’m genuinely interested in what I’m doing.’ Sitting across my desk was Celia, a first-year undergraduate diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), who had attended my university’s ADHD summer camp when she was in middle school. As we caught up on the past five years of her life, she described how she’d felt unmotivated throughout her high-school years. Celia recalled her parents’ attempts to coax her interest in conventional subjects, such as mathematics and literature, without success. Looking down at her shoes, she described feeling left out and demoralized during her final year of high school when each of her friends had celebrated acceptances to rigorous universities.

There’s no doubt that adolescence can be incredibly challenging for girls and boys like Celia who have ADHD but, with sufficient support, they can thrive – as you’ll see when I return to Celia’s story later in this Guide.

Source: How to empower a teen with ADHD

How to set yourself free with ritual

How to set yourself free with ritual

by | Jun 20, 2022 | Health-Wellness-Sex

When I first read Confucius, I was disappointed. He seemed like

a stick-in-the-mud, obsessed with enforcing the status quo. ‘As for music,’ he grumped to his disciples, ‘listen only to Shao and Wu. Prohibit the tunes of Zheng.’

This was the great sage of ancient China, who wandered the country lecturing disciples and rulers on how to live? Maybe his approach worked 2,500 years ago. But for me, in the 21st century? I preferred living freely like the iconoclastic Daoist sages who mocked Confucius.

Source: How to set yourself free with ritual | Psyche Guides

Keep the Spark Alive in Your Marriage

by | Oct 1, 2021 | Health-Wellness-Sex

Staying up late scrolling social media to avoid intimacy with your partner or, worse, pretending to be asleep, isn’t good for your marriage. But if you find yourself avoiding sex, you’re not alone: Approximately one woman in 10 experiences a decrease in her sex drive at some point in her life.

“That dip can happen for a number of reasons, including the natural progression of your relationship over time,” says Chris Kraft, Ph.D., director of clinical services at the Sex and Gender Clinic in the department of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medicine. “But you shouldn’t give up on having a great sex life once you’re married. Intimacy is key to having a healthy, functional and overall happy relationship.”

Source: Keep the Spark Alive in Your Marriage | Johns Hopkins Medicine

How can I help my student manage stress?

by | Apr 3, 2019 | Education, Health-Wellness-Sex, Mentoring

We adults all experience it, hate it, and deal with it. Over the years we’ve learned ways of handling stress that work best for us. (It’s the reason some of us devour pounds of chocolate…)

Our college students are different, though. They’ve been shielded somewhat from the stress of what we call “real life.” Growing up, yes, they experienced the stress of trying to make good grades, succeed at extracurricular activities, and fit in with different groups of people. However, they had their parents around back then. When they took on too much, we helped them prioritize and streamline their commitments. When they were over tired, we made them go to bed. When they didn’t feel well, we kept them home from school and made them soup and Jello. We were back-up alarm clock and day planner. That was our job as parents.

Source: University Parent
My Comment:  This site has been a great source over the years.  So thankful for it.

Investigated: Anxiety-inducing fitness test purports to tell you how long you’ll live.

by | Mar 24, 2019 | Fitness, Health-Wellness-Sex

sitting outdoors

It seems a simple enough challenge: Sit down on the floor and get back up without the help of your hands or knees. Try it, though, and you might discover it’s not as easy as it sounds.

This “sitting-rising” exercise was designed to predict mortality in middle-aged and older people. The test was devised by a team led by Claudio Gil Araújo, a Brazilian physician and researcher in exercise and sports medicine, and published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention in 2012. It resurfaces periodically in media outlets or online, causing widespread alarm regarding mortality among the many people (of all ages) who can’t seem to get themselves off the ground. We decided to find out whether that worry is warranted.

Source:  WAPO

My Comments:
This is a pretty interesting test.  I am able to do it now, but I am not really sure what that really means.  And I certainly don’t have the flexibility to get up like the female in the video.