Break old patterns and begin working as a team to learn how to deal with anxiety as a couple. Whether it’s one or both of you dealing with anxiety or depression in marriage, it should be a team effort to regain control. We are here for you. In this post, we will address how anxiety affects relationships and how to deal with anxiety within your marriage. It would be best if you learned how to take this challenge on as a team....
Mindfulness Practice: Keep the Lines Open 1) Begin by sitting silently together for 10-20 minutes, as time allows. 2) Next, take turns telling each other what you’re grateful for, what’s enlivening your heart at present. “This is called gladdening the heart and serves as a good way to open the channel of communication,” Tara says. 3) Next, take turns naming any particular challenges you’re dealing with that are currently causing you stress....
If you’re the kind of person who finds themselves wide awake at 3 a.m. contemplating the shadows on their ceiling, practicing mindfulness may offer the secret to sleeping better. A randomized clinical trial from UCLA found that mindfulness meditation improves sleep quality among older adults with sleep disturbances. The following guided meditation was used in that study to help people fall asleep. May it do the same for you. Try This Guided Meditation to Help You Sleep More Soundly Try This Guided Meditation to Help You Sleep More Soundly...
I want to talk about the concept of self-compassion. Self-compassion is different than self-esteem. There seems to be this epidemic of self-judgment in the world, where people are often self-critical and have a lot of self-hating voices in their heads. Self-compassion is not the build up of self-esteem, because the build up of self-esteem tends to lead people to needing a lot of external validation to feel ok. Instead, self-compassion is the idea that even with all of our flaws, we can still care about ourselves, that we can make mistakes, that we can screw up, that we can have problems, but we’re still fundamentally a good human being....
Tom: Hi, Assaf! Describe THINQon for us in a very logical way. Assaf: Hi Tom. THINQon is a community built for sharing and achieving understanding, about anything that matters to us, from our daily life’s experiences and questions to historical, philosophical, professional and political ones. Informally, people describe it as a place for interesting people to talk about interesting things in a meaningful way. Tom: I can imagine someone saying: Why should people go online to talk meaningfully with interesting people?...
