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How to Avoid SAT Test Anxiety
According to these government statistics , 30 percent of Americans and 12 percent of Canadians and are affected by test anxiety, and research suggests that if left uncontrolled, it can decrease student performance by at least 10 percent. Here’s a helpful guide to working through test anxiety.
Handpicked Memes For You, Fellow Overthinker
For many people, memes capture the feelings and frustrations we feel inside that we just can’t quite express in words. The following memes have been created by or for all the overthinkers among us to capture all our many, many thoughts in .gif form.
My Metaphor for Overthinking
For the first 39 years of my life, I was terrible to my brain. I would engage in deep, intrusive pondering, telling myself that I was working hard to "figure things out." I never realized that the overthinking I was engaging in was terrible for my brain's environment. And this is my metaphor for overthinking: my brain has an environment, and I am responsible for taking care of it.
Try Yin Yoga If You're Stiff
Yoga had historically never been a great fit for me, as I don’t have the upper body strength to do a vinyasa properly and I’m not coordinated enough to keep up with a fast moving class. I knew I desperately needed a new stretching routine so I started researching other types of yoga, including Yin Yoga.
How to Avoid Emotional Eating
Emotional eating is the tendency to respond to stressful, difficult feelings by eating, even when not experiencing physical hunger. Emotional eating (or emotional hunger) is often a craving for high-calorie or high-carbohydrate foods that have minimal nutritional value.
How to Work Through the Pain of Divorce
Grieving is pain with a purpose. The purpose is healing and strength. When we can finally take the responsibility for our healing and make positive health choices, we are on our way to accepting the divorce.
The One Book That Eases My Anxiety
I actually experienced a more extreme episode recently and I’ve been using the time since to get back to what I call my anchors – the things I do in life which keep me focused and full of happy thoughts and keep the anxiety demons away.
What Are Automatic Negative Thoughts?
Aaron Beck, one of the founders of cognitive therapy, concluded that automatic negative thinking sabotages our best self and lead to a vicious circle of misery. How it feels: We get stuck in the same negative thoughts over and over. Because of our brain’s plasticity, we can create new pathways for our new and changed thoughts to travel.