5 Ways the Outdoors Can Benefit Your Mental Health
Have you ever felt the need to step outside and get some fresh air during a stressful experience? Research has shown time and time again that spending time outside is great for both our physical and mental health.
If your mental health, in particular, has been struggling lately, you would likely benefit from spending less time in front of a screen and more time enjoying all that Mother Nature has to offer. Even just short bursts of time outside several times a week can greatly improve mood and energy levels.
Discover five ways the outdoors can benefit your mental health.
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Battling Depression? – 5 Morning Habits to Supercharge Your Day
Depression is a nasty condition that can infiltrate your entire life.
Not only that, feelings frequently accompanying depression can start as soon as you open your eyes. Haunting you until your head hits the pillow later that night, depression can rue the day.
The good news is that you do have influence over how your day plays out—whether you’re battling depression or not.
As you may know, your morning routine largely impacts the rest of your day, setting the tone. So here are five morning habits to start today. Embracing these changes can help you to ward off depression and supercharge your day.
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The Gut-Brain Connection: How Your Diet Can Improve Your Depression
At times, it may seem that your gut-brain connection is limited to pestering you with cravings.
Or perhaps you only sense a link between the two when it’s nearly mealtime.
Unsurprisingly, most people don’t realize the impacting relationship the gut and brain have on each other. In terms of depression, for example, various environmental factors like diet, stress, and smoking can influence it.
To understand how you can improve your depression, it’s important to first wrap your head around your gut-brain connection.
Here’s the scoop.
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What is Strength-Based Therapy and How Can It Help with Depression?
Mental health theories are focused on deficiencies and dysfunctions. Sometimes mental health practice is also mostly about client’s problems and weaknesses. In other words, it’s all about what’s wrong with you.
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5 Things People with Depression Would Like You to Know
Do you know anyone who suffers from depression?
If you do, then you also know that having to explain themselves, and their mood-related behaviors, can add a huge extra burden on people with depression.
Particularly since the same preconceptions come up again and again.
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Self-Love: Why Is It So Difficult to Love Yourself First?
Some say that you can't love others unless you love yourself first. But for many of us, loving our self is difficult. We have an enemy living in our head.
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Impact of Heat on Depression
With the sun shining brightly and the average daytime temperature soaring, it can be tough to find relief. Summer heat is fantastic – if you’re a desert ant. For the rest of us, intense hot weather can be unbearable, wreaking havoc on both physical and emotional health.
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Tips to Beat the Summer Blues-Avoid Depression and Stress
With winter a distant memory, the approaching summer should be a breath of fresh air – a relaxing time to enjoy family fun and outdoor activities. But juggling the kids, schedule changes, social events and work while enduring hot, humid temperatures isn’t always fun, and you’re not alone if you’re experiencing a bout of the summer time blues.
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Tips to Avoid the Blues If You Are Alone During the Holidays
The holidays are traditionally all about sharing, giving and spending time together with friends and loved ones – activities that are difficult to do solo
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