25 Jan Quick Tips on How to Keep Your New Years’ Resolutions
Making New Years' resolutions is easy: just pick an aspect of yourself you'd like to improve and convince yourself you'll do the work to improve it. Easy! Keeping those resolutions ...
07 Dec How to Battle Holiday Stress, Part 1: Use Mindfulness to Achieve Calm
How to Battle Holiday Stress a PHMP Online Knowledgebase Mini-Series Welcome to Part 1 of 3 in our conveniently-timed How to Battle Holiday Stress...
07 Sep The 10 Most Common Defense Mechanisms
Defense mechanisms are behaviors people use to separate themselves from unpleasant events, actions, or thoughts. It's a psychological trick we use all the time as a way to put distance between ourselves and threats or unwanted feelings, such as guilt or shame. The idea of defense mechanisms...
27 Jul Panic vs. Anxiety
You might hear people talking about panic attacks and anxiety attacks like they're the same thing—but they're not. Panic and anxiety attacks are different conditions. It's helpful to separate the two and examine them individually. What are panic attacks? Panic attacks come on suddenly and involve intense and...
15 Jun Anxiety Disorders: Signs and Symptoms
Many people experience anxiety at some point in their lives. In fact, anxiety is a very normal response to stressful life events like moving, changing jobs or having financial troubles. However, when symptoms of anxiety become larger than the events that triggered them and begin to interfere...
12 Jan 7 Coping Strategies for Emotional Times
When faced with a challenge, you likely have a handful of go-to strategies to help you deal with it, even if your approach varies slightly from problem to problem. You might, for example, be a problem solver. When navigating a challenge or stressful event — a...
08 Sep Is Self-Care Selfish?
Self-care is a commonly-heard phrase nowadays: it's a label attached to skin care products, fizzy bath bombs, yoga poses, organic foods, and more. But self-care is more than a commercialized sales buzzword. Self-care started as a way to physically take care of yourself. It then evolved...
28 Jul The Benefits of Meditation
Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. And as more people discover the benefits of meditation, so does its popularity rise. You can use meditation to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it...
26 May “Quarantine Fatigue” is Real. Here’s What You Can Do.
It's been more than 2 months since self-isolation and shuttered businesses became the norm in the United States due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While there's talk of gradual re-openings in some areas, we still could be more than a year away from life returning to normal. As...
30 Oct 16 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress and Anxiety
Stress and anxiety are common experiences for most people. In fact, 70% of adults in the US say they feel stress or anxiety daily. Here are 16 simple ways to relieve stress and anxiety. 1. Exercise Exercise is one of the most important things you can do to combat stress. It...
24 Oct Stress Effects and Remedies
There’s no doubt, today’s world is stressful! Many stressors, while not actually CAUSING high blood pressure, do drive hormones in our body which cause an increase in our blood pressure. One in three American adults have high blood pressure (hypertension), and just as many battle...
15 Apr Take Time For Yourself
There’s no doubt, today’s world is stressful! Many stressors, while not actually CAUSING high blood pressure, do drive hormones in our body which cause increase in our blood pressure. One in three American adults have high blood pressure (hypertension), and just as many battle emotional...