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Brene Brown Vulnerability Definition and Quotes with Images

Explore Brené Brown’s powerful insights on vulnerability, courage, and worthiness. This post includes her definition of vulnerability, inspiring quotes, and empowering takeaways—plus inspiring quote graphics.

Therapeutic Photography

Taking pics, processing them, and posting them on social media might be more therapeutic than you realize. 

I recently discovered the concept of Therapeutic Photography: the use of photography by an individual or group to improve mental health. I think that you don't have to necessarily set out to use photography as therapy to have the therapeutic benefits, but becoming more aware of how it can help your mind and mood might boost the benefits.

Therapeutic Benefits of Photography

There is a long list of potential mental health gains from taking pics, processing them, and discussing them.

Therapeutic photography can provide opportunities to:

How to Forgive Yourself: Inspiring Quotes and Helpful Tips

Learn how to forgive yourself with a 3-step process for turning guilt, regret, or shame into useful information and forward progress. Inspiring quotes to help shift your mindset about mistakes, and linked tools like worksheets, support and gently guide you toward self-forgiveness. 

How to Relieve Anxiety and Stress with a Nature Pill

How about taking a Nature Pill to relieve your stress? A new study shows that 20 to 30 minutes of being in nature (even just sitting in a nature setting in the middle of a city) reduces stress and anxiety.

Discover what a Nature Pill is, what the study showed, and how you can use a Nature Pill to de-stress.

Why Feeling a Wide Range of Positive Emotions is Good For Your Health

Feeling a wide range of positive emotions may be more important to your health and well-being than the amount of feel-good you have in your life. People with a wide range of positive emotions had less inflammation in a study performed by US universities (including Cornell) and the German Institute for Economic Research.

Click to learn more about the study and how you can expand your positive emotion word vocabulary. 

4-Step Thought Blocking or Thought Stopping Technique

Do you ruminate about awful scenarios? or fixate on angry or anxious negative thoughts?

Fixating on negative thoughts or dwelling on awful scenarios can capitalize on your brainpower, ramp up your anxiety, drain your energy, and distort how you see yourself and the world and people around you. 

Learning the technique of Thought Blocking (AKA Thought Stopping) can help you stop negative, awfulizing, catastrophizing thoughts.