Imagine that you decide to start going to the gym, take a break from social media and cut ties with problematic people. You have determination that this time, these changes will stick. Later, maybe after a few hours, days or weeks, you start to feel lazy and cannot muster up the energy to carry o...

You head to work at the same time every day, and the routine to get out the door is more or less memorized. You shower, eat breakfast, get dressed, drive to work, and so on. You barely have to think consciously about doing any of these things because you’ve done them so frequently that your mind ...

To move out of your autopilot mode, you will need to actively practice consciousness and improve your self-awareness. By being aware of your activities, you can become what you want. When you are conscious about what you are doing, your subconscious mind cannot overpower you with its autopilot mo...

The present tests taken for measuring the severity of trauma do not fully capture it. They do not consider the range of emotional and spiritual traumas, which are caused due to consistently denying or repressing the needs of your authentic self. This typically occurs due to being consistently tre...

Stress is an internal condition that threatens your state of physical, emotional, and mental balance. Whenever we encounter a threat, either real or perceived, the brain’s fear center, i.e., the amygdala, lights up. Once activated, this area of the brain then sends messages to the rest of our bod...

When you are in a perpetual state of stress, your adrenal glands release stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline. This will lead to continuous and overactive fight or flight responses, which present physically as a racing heart, dilated pupils, balled fists, etc. These overactive response...

Healing ourselves via our Gut: If our diet isn't healthy we will not be physically and mentally healthy either.

Healing ourselves via sleep: Inadequate sleep is incredibly damaging. When we sleep, our body repairs itself.

Healing ourselves via...