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Anxiety, much like that unexpected phone ring, can disrupt our lives without warning. But what if we could answer that call with confidence? This blog aims to help you do just that. By exploring what anxiety is, recognizing its signs, and employing strategies to manage it, we can learn to navigate our reactions with a newfound sense of calm.

Navigating Conflict in Relationships: Effective Techniques for Managing Disagreements Have you ever been in an argument with your partner that left you frustrated and unsure of how to resolve the disagreement? It’s a common experience that can leave us baffled, angry, and disconnected. For instance, let’s consider John and Emily. They had been together for three years. Although they loved each other, they often found themselves bickering over trivial things. One day, they got into a heated argument about how to divide household chores, and the situation quickly escalated into a full-blown fight. If you can relate to John and …

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Looking for the right therapist can be a daunting task. This blog post provides helpful tips on how to find a therapist who understands and respects you as a person, and can offer the human touch you need to feel seen, heard, and understood. Learn about understanding your therapy needs and goals, different types of therapy, cultural awareness of the therapist, budget, asking for referrals and recommendations, and trusting your instincts to embark on your path to improved mental well-being.

Why do we engage in self-blame? How to replace self blame with self love?  I wouldn’t have failed if I had tried harder.” ” I am such a bad kid for making my parents angry.” “It is all my fault.why didn’t I do something different.” “If I had acted in a different way, we wouldn’t have had this fight Have you ever felt like this or thought of a situation like this? Have you ever blamed yourself for the terrible things that has happened in your life?  Let us dive in deep about what self blame is and why we …

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Dysregulated nervous system is not always a personality disorder. Read to know how they differ.

4 Steps To Improve Your Relationship With Food The first step is to connect with your body. Eating is a way of nourishing your body; giving it back to what it helps us to do and to be. It is about learning to respond to the hunger cues. Why did you stop listening to this? The journey starts from there. Second step is to develop workable self soothing skills by not using food as a distraction. Acknowledging, processing and understanding your emotions prevents you from using food to deal with emotions. Third step is to set boundaries when it comes …

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A mirror to how toxic relation ship affect our mental well being and how self regulation helps in inter personal conflicts.

Conflicts in toxic relationships can be neverending trauma. Free yourself from toxic people and choose to leave such relationships. Prioritise yourself and your self-care above anything. Self-regulation needs a lot of work on yourself.  Self-regulation needs a lot of self-love and self-respect.

Sometimes we get lost in the words used. Sometimes we focus too much on the tone expressed. We missed those crucial non-verbal cues and by noticing them could actually stop yourself from escalating the conflict. Self-regulation happens when there is a balance in your internal and external environment.

I explained how restrained eating leads to emotional eating previously. Today, I am going to explain about using food as a method of self-regulation. Almost everybody has a favourite food to indulge in whenever they feel low. This association of food and emotion was probably enabled in your childhood. It is a common practice by parents to provide cookies, cake or ice cream whenever a child is upset. The intention is good but the consequences are not. Instead of learning to regulate the mood, you might have learnt that indulging in food could make you feel better. They became your …

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The answer is simple, NO. Wishing for a conflict-free relationship is unrealistic. When two different individuals having different personalities and values come together, conflict is inevitable at times. How you handle the conflict matters! The resolution determines the future connectedness of the people involved in the relationship. Dealing with conflict means dealing with the unpleasant emotions of your partner as well as yours. Among those emotions, it is the anger of one or both the parties that usually escalates the conflict. Anger is just an emotion that can be expressed in many different ways. It need not be expressed through …

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Positive psychology fascinated me because of its focus on “good life” and the positive aspects of human experience. We are conditioned to believe that being happy is the best thing that could happen in our life. To achieve this, we all set conditions in life, which when fulfilled would give us happiness, or at least that is what we believe. Over time, we realise that the conditions never cease to exist. We will always want something in our life that would make us happier than our current self. This realisation was a big moment for me. The moment of accomplishment …

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