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June 26, 2025
Is your Body Clock Out of Whack?
Do you wake up feeling tired and groggy even though you’ve had a full night’s sleep? Your internal body clock / circadian rhythm might not be working properly. The circadian rhythm regulates your level of sleepiness or wakefulness throughout the day. When it’s working properly, you should wake up feeling energized and ready to conquer the world! An out-of-whack body clock doesn’t just make you tired. It also disrupts your brain’s wave patterns, hormone production, and cell regulation. This disruption has been linked to depression, obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Thankfully, it is possible to reset your circadian rhythm as long as you can figure out what is throwing it off. Do you have a regular sleep schedule? Do you go to bed and get up at around the same time every day? An erratic sleep schedule throws off your body clock. If you want to wake up feeling refreshed, you need to pick a bedtime and a wake-up time. Don’t just go to bed whenever you feel like it. Having a fixed bedtime also helps you wind down. You might not always go to bed on time, but the realization that it’s “past your bedtime” helps you to relax and get ready for bed. Do you wind down before bed? How do you prepare for bed? If you work or watch TV up until the minute you fall asleep, your brain doesn’t get a chance to wind down. To sleep better, you need to find a way to let…
Top 10 Ways To Better Understand What Makes You Dissatisfied With Life
How satisfied are you with your life? Maybe you’re more satisfied with certain areas of your life than others, but feeling dissatisfied with life is a common experience for many people. Sometimes it’s glaringly apparent why you’re dissatisfied with life. But sometimes, it’s hard to put a finger on it. In those cases, by exploring…
Learn MoreHow To Become More Decisive
Sometimes we put off making big decisions. Why? Why do we waffle back and forth and procrastinate on life-changing decisions, potentially losing out on opportunities, resulting in our lives being directed and shaped by other people’s choices and agendas? It’s easy to get stuck in a cycle of indecision and second-guessing when facing big decisions. …
Learn MoreHow To Overcome Self-Defeating Habits & Be Happy
Self-defeating habits are thoughts and behaviors that keep us from unlocking our best life. They keep us stuck and frustrated and eventually flood our lives with regret. It’s tricky. After all, we might not even know we’re doing them because we do them automatically without thinking. We feel the effects because they affect our dreams,…
Learn MoreHow To Know If You’re Happy Or Not
What is happiness? The dictionary says it’s “A state of well-being and contentment.” That’s a good start, but how can you know if you’re happy? What does happiness look like? Although happiness is in the mind of the “beholder,” you’re probably happy when the following things are true about your life: Happiness is more than…
Learn MoreWhat is an Emotional Support Animal & Do You Need One?
An animal can be a good source of comfort and a much-needed physical presence during distressing times. They promote emotional stability by providing companionship and helping remove the focus from everyday challenges. An emotional support animal can be a dog, cat, or even, as shown on Eyewitness News, a pig if it comforts its owner….
Learn More5 Ways To Build Your Child’s Self-Worth
What good parent doesn’t want their kids to be happy and successful? But how do we do that, exactly? We compliment and affirm, support them, tell them to chase their dreams, and teach them to live for something bigger than themselves. What else can we do? According to experts, we should teach them how to be…
Learn MoreHow Simplifying Your Life Makes You Happier
Does modern life’s fast pace and complexity ever feel like too much? Do you ever wish things would slow down long enough for you to jump off the hamster wheel and rest a minute? Maybe it’s time to simplify your life. Maybe it’s time to say, “Enough!” and regain control. Maybe…it’s time to realize that…
Learn MoreHow To End Self-Destructive Behavior
There’s no way of sugar-coating it. To unlock your best life – to be successful and happy – you must learn how to eliminate self-destructive behaviors and replace them with healthy ones. Shame Shame can make eliminating self-destructive behaviors challenging. It’s easy to sink into shame when we mess up. Instead of realizing that we…
Learn MoreThe Top Five Bad Habits You Need To Replace
Want to change your life? Change your habits. To rephrase a popular statement, the habits that got you here won’t get you where you want to go. You change your life when you change your habits. But it isn’t about “breaking” bad habits; it’s about replacing them with good ones. But what if you’re mostly…
Learn MoreHow To Lead A More Fulfilling Life
They tell us: “You deserve to be happy.” They even say that pursuing happiness is our God-given right. But is happiness what we want, or is our soul searching for something deeper? The thing about happiness is that it comes and goes. You can be happy one minute, and the next, you’re down in the…
Learn MoreLife After Divorce: Landing On Your Feet
Divorce is the end of a relationship and the dreams that go along with it. In a divorce, someone leaves, and someone is left. The finality of it all can throw a person into grieving and mourning, even if they want out of the marriage. Knowing the end has come – that it is all…
Learn MoreHow To Use Self-Monitoring To Be Mentally Tough
We need mental toughness today now more than ever, not just to survive but to flourish. Self-monitoring is a kind of self-awareness that develops mental toughness and resilience. What is mental toughness? According to Mental Toughness Inc., “Mental toughness is the ability to resist, manage and overcome doubts, worries, concerns and circumstances that prevent you from…
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