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4 Tips For Handling Anxiety

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Millions of people suffer from anxiety every day.  When life starts to pile up on you, you may begin to feel the effects physically.  It’s not uncommon to feel your heart racing, your palms getting clammy, and you may even feel dizzy.  This doesn’t have to be your life.  

By identifying your triggers and learning how to calm your mind, you can reduce your symptoms and regain inner peace.  Here are some of the best ways to handle your anxiety and take control of your life again. 

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Originally posted on July 9, 2019 @ 8:13 pm

3 Ways Unhappy Relationships Are Bad For Your Health

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When you’re in a happy, healthy relationship, you can see its positive impact in almost every area of your life. In the same sense, unhealthy relationships can have the same type of negative affect on your life, especially your health. So if you’ve noticed that your health is falling by the wayside and you’re stuck in an unhealthy relationship, be it a marriage or a friendship, here are three ways this toxic relationship could be causing you to have poor health.

Increased Stress Levels

An unhealthy relationship can be very detrimental to both your physical and mental health. One way this is evident is in the stress that this relationship can cause and how that stress can be made manifest in your physical body. According to Amanda MacMullin, a contributor to Health.com, you can have stress in your relationship over things like financial problems, parenting disagreements, emotional abuse, or even just small arguments about normal things in life. When these things cause you stress, it can impact your health through giving you anxiety, stomach issues, and overall discontent and lack of well-being. [Read more…]

Originally posted on June 1, 2018 @ 3:44 pm