“Stay Home, Stay Safe” During COVID-19 and Mental Sanity
Being introverted, you would think this new “Stay safe, stay home” life would be a super easy adjustment for me!
Being introverted, you would think this new “Stay safe, stay home” life would be a super easy adjustment for me!
…become a vicious cycle since our anxiety about sleeping can keep us up even longer.
As many as half of all seniors will suffer through a period of anxiety or depression in the years following retirement. If you or a senior loved or…
While aromatherapy can be used for many things, most people don’t know just how healing they really can be!
In fact, with 18 percent of the population affected by anxiety, it’s clear that anxiety is having an impact on the day-to-day lives and overall well-being of average people.
It’s scary stuff, and yet so many put their mental health on the line every day to stay longer at the office, finish that project and earn that promotion. Work is often to blame for the worst stresses of modern life, and when you throw social pressure into the mix, it makes for a nasty recipe.
Whenever I speak to my friends who don’t have kids yet, they relate to my stories about my kids by sharing stories of when they were a kid. We start to talk about fond childhood memories and I find that one type of memory always sticks out. That is the time we spent with one parent and had their full…
Remember the Wizard of Oz? It is one of my son’s favourite movies. You know when Dorothy is trying to figure herself out and she gets so stressed out that she dreams of Oz? Yeah, that’s my life in a nutshell right now. I’ve been so stressed that I am in survival mode. I just go from one obligation to…
This year has been a lot. That’s the best way I can describe it- just a lot going on. It has been more frantic and busy and emotional than other years so, of course, my anxiety and depression have been higher than other years. Fortunately, I don’t rely on meds as I did in my teens and my early twenties,…
The title of this blog post is a bit of a misdirection. It is more of a public promise to myself to do just that. Currently, I rarely make time for myself. My husband calls me a “slave driver to myself”. When I did the Discovery Dyet this year (more on that later- in a word, fantastic) I found that I…