Your self-care needs to be as much a priority as taking care of others. All of the excuses you make and overscheduling you do may prevent you from listening internally to the demands your body and mind are making.

Rituals can be a great thing to adapt to the new year. Highly successful people create patterns of behavior to incorporate into their everyday life. As you develop healthy habits, you are one step closer to following your dreams.

It could be challenging to have a positive outlook in the new year. Still, it is important to remember that every year brings the opportunity for positivity.

The key to moving on is to remember that you are not forgiving that person for their benefit. You are forgiving them for yours. If you're finding it difficult to forgive, it's important to ask yourself why.

Shame is a painful, damaging attack on who you are. It affects your life choices. You should get help, but may mistakenly feel that you don’t “deserve” it.

If you suffer from shame-based thinking, you have a very negative view of yourself and your value as a person. How can you identify shame-based thinking?

It’s common knowledge that staying physically active is important for your health. But did you know that exercise can be helpful if you are struggling with mental health issues too?  Research shows that exercise can play an important, role in mental health, that is still yet to be fully understood.  Also, you don’t need to exercise that much in order to get the healthy benefits.

Have you ever confused shame and guilt? Has there ever been a time in your life where you felt “bad” and used those words interchangeably? Shame and guilt are commonly used terms in our vocabulary, but do we truly understand their meaning?

It turns out, shame and guilt have very different meanings leading to very different outcomes.