Is anxiety affecting your relationship?
Everyone faces anxiety at times–that nagging feeling that something awful is about to happen. Anxiety is our body’s way of alerting our conscious mind to a potential threat in our path. Our brain initiates a chemical response to things we are perceiving: sight, smell, taste, a familiar situation, or an imagined chain of events. We feel that chemical response in our stomach as the “jitters,” in our chest and neck as a raised heartbeat or a flush, or even in our hands and feet as a cold chill. Our body says, “danger!” We alert and look around us to figure out what has alarmed us.
Read More»A Path Towards Mindful Time-Management
Time-management is challenging on a good day. Add the extra hustle and bustle of the holiday season and it is easy to get overwhelmed. Multiple projects pop up simultaneously, leading to anxiety and frustration around dropping the proverbial ball.
Contrary to popular belief, we now know that focusing on one project at a time rather than trying to multi-task actually leads to more efficiency and accuracy. Articles in Forbes and Time also lay out how the process of trying to multi-task can actually be harmful. Surprised? I sure was.
Read More»A Simple Fix to Help With Connection
- At November 08, 2017
- By Holly Birkeland
- In Bad Habits, Connection
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If you and your partner are complaining that you lack connection, you might be guilty of this:
After a day at work, you come in the door, shout out a “I’m home,” and the dog bounds over to greet you, letting you know with a wildly wagging tail how happy he is to see you. Your voice goes to a sing song-y, “Who’s a good boy”; you’re happy to see the dog too. You see your wife or your husband but all you get is a glance, the phone gets all the attention.
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