How to Do 4-7-8 Breathing: Benefits, Instructions, and Tips
Learn how to do 4-7-8 breathing with an animated breathing guide, step-by-step instructions, practical tips, and research. Discover how regular practice may improve your breathing pattern, reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and build stress resilience.
How to Silence Your Inner Critic and Stop Negative Self-Talk
Your inner critic can hold you back and wear you down. This post walks you through how to spot negative self-talk, where it comes from, and how to change it. With practical steps, real-life examples, and tools for lasting mindset shifts, you’ll learn how to rewrite the messages you say to yourself and replace criticism with encouragement.
- Ann Silvers
- Tags: anxiety emotional intelligence happiness stress
Stop Procrastination Now! Causes, Fixes & Motivational Quotes
Procrastination isn’t just about putting things off — it’s often tangled up with anxiety, fear, and habits that hold you back. This post explores what causes procrastination, how it affects your well-being, and practical ways to break the cycle. You’ll also find motivational quotes (including a few funny ones) to help you shift from stuck to moving forward.
The Right-Wrong Trap: How Black-and-White Thinking Skews Decisions
Black-and-white thinking—also called polarized, all-or-nothing, or dichotomous thinking—is a cognitive distortion that oversimplifies your options and messes with your decision-making.
This post explains how the right-wrong trap can lead to stress, fear, and indecision, and offers tips and worksheets to help you shift toward more realistic, flexible thinking.
- Ann Silvers
- Tags: anxiety Cognitive Behavorial Therapy emotional intelligence stress
Vitamin D: the Anti-Anxiety Vitamin
This is a guest post by Dr. Jessica Corbeille, ND.
Most people agree—they feel happier on a sunny day than a gloomy day.
Why is this?
Is it perhaps this vitamin D that makes us happy? If so, what else can Vitamin D do for you?
