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4 Ways to Deal With Anxiety As a POC

4 Ways to Deal With Anxiety As a POC

BIPOC carry additional risk factors compared to the average white American impacting onset of anxiety. Top that with certain stigmas that are carried as well; it can be hard to navigate and feel very lonely. Learning how to manage anxiety when it occurs is key to getting through it. Here are some ways to start.

Diet Recovery: 4 Ways to Know You're On The Path

Diet Recovery: 4 Ways to Know You're On The Path

Diet recovery is not easy, but it is possible. It takes serious guts, for it can seem much safer to stay with what is familiar, rather than stepping into the unknown. Perhaps trusting your body to make the right choices feels impossible! How will you know? What if you can't stop eating dreaded foods, etc.?

Healing Complex PTSD in Women: Post Traumatic Growth

Healing Complex PTSD in Women: Post Traumatic Growth

Studies show that women are consistently more likely to meet criteria for complex PTSD. Additionally, experts find that women experience more severe symptoms than men. This is true even when men experienced the same traumatic events. Why? Scientists find that women think and process trauma differently and more acutely.

Choosing a PTSD Psychotherapist: Your 5 Step Guide to “Professional Help”

Choosing a PTSD Psychotherapist: Your 5 Step Guide to “Professional Help”

For PTSD sufferers, therapy is an excellent first step. You need a supportive person, expertly trained and dedicated to seeing you through effective treatment and lasting recovery. Where trauma seemed to have robbed you of so much, you now have the opportunity to seek out a relationship with a PTSD psychotherapist that is both trustworthy and therapeutic.

Choosing an Eating Disorder Psychotherapist: 5 Tips to Getting the Help You Need to Heal

Choosing an Eating Disorder Psychotherapist: 5 Tips to Getting the Help You Need to Heal

An eating disorder psychotherapist requires understanding and effective treatment. While psychotherapy can be challenging, it is a worthwhile part of your healing. Thus, an eating disorder psychotherapist helps aid therapy sessions and various types of help that improve your self-awareness and coping skills.

4 Things I Have Learned About Intuitive Eating

4 Things I Have Learned About Intuitive Eating

Intuitive eating finally clicked one day for me. You might be interested in letting go and having your body figure out its natural weight. It is possible that you are okay the way you are and can start living life now? Doesn’t this sound so freeing, yet so frightening at the same time? Of course, this is extremely common in our society.

Treating PTSD With Mindfulness: 4 Reasons Why It is Successful.

Treating PTSD With Mindfulness: 4 Reasons Why It is Successful.

Treating PTSD with mindfulness has a lot to offer you if you commit to it. Science has proven it and other PTSD sufferers swear by it. Maybe now is the time to pursue a way to live life less overwhelmed. More at peace with your symptoms and less at war with your current world and the people in it.

5 Tips for Healing PTSD: It is Possible.

5 Tips for Healing PTSD: It is Possible.

Healing PTSD is possible yet you may feel: That your future is out of your control and healing might be impossible? That it's hard to even picture the future existing, much less imagine what it will be like? Many people with PTSD allow past trauma to create their future life.

PTSD nightmares: 5 Tips to Help You Cope and Heal

PTSD nightmares: 5 Tips to Help You Cope and Heal

Are you having PTSD nightmares? The toll PTSD nightmares puts on an already taxed mind is intense. Often times, they create deeper problems or push the sufferer toward unhealthy coping. Without proper rest, PTSD can start to overwhelm and further strain you during the waking hours.

Recognizing the Need for Binge Eating Disorder Treatment

Recognizing the Need for Binge Eating Disorder Treatment

Do you need binge eating disorder treatment? Binge eating can be a dangerous solution to emotional pain. Research on the causes of BED is ongoing, but there is strong evidence to indicate that most people who habitually binge eat do so in order to ease depression and need binge eating disorder treatment.

Recognizing PTSD Signs and Symptoms

Recognizing PTSD Signs and Symptoms

If the danger is gone, maybe long gone, but the shock and alarm persist, you may be dealing with some of these PTSD signs and symptoms. When “fight or flight“ is a way of life, post- traumatic stress may be a factor. PTSD persists in your mind. It lingers in your body. It upsets your relationships.

Identifying The 5 Most Common Signs of Emotional Eating

Identifying The 5 Most Common Signs of Emotional Eating

Many people have engaged in emotional eating at some point or another. It is built into our framework as humans that food equals comfort. For a short period of time, emotional eating can cause a sense of release. Many are not sure what the signs of emotional eating are. But, you may wonder if your habits are healthy, or if you are acting on compulsions that might be doing you harm.