How To Fix Your Sleep Schedule: 6 Steps to Reset Your Sleep
In the age of technology, constant notifications, and around-the-clock stress, it has become increasingly difficult to achieve a healthy night's rest. While some of us struggle with going to bed at an appropriate time, others find it hard to wake up on-time and feeling energized. Insufficient sleep and sleep problems have officially become a public health epidemic. And, while there might be many factors at play, we have the power to improve our sleep schedules and reap the benefits of a restful slumber. In this article, we share some scientifically-backed tips and steps you can take in order to achieve a sleep schedule that leaves you feeling fulfilled and rested.
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Messy Perfectionists: Can Perfectionists Be Disorganized? Have you ever watched the popular sitcom Friends? This American comedy series follows the lives of six friends in New York City as they battle the daily struggles young adults typically face. One of the friends, Monica Geller, is supposed to be the perfectionist of the group. She is portrayed as someone who is obsessed with having everything clean and organized. However, during one fateful episode, one of her friends uncovers Monica's shameful secret: a hidden closet where Monica stores old things in utter chaos. How is it that the most perfectionistic, 'type A' character in recent television has a small room so disorganized that she is compelled to hide it in shame? Can perfectionists be messy? The answer is yes. Perfectionists can sometimes be messy, and they are wired to be messy. But, why? Let's find out.
How To Practice Self-Acceptance & Why Is It So Hard Accepting yourself for who you are is one of the keys to inner peace. Self-acceptance allows us to treat ourselves as we were our best friend. It helps us foster a healthy and sustainable relationship with our inner selves. Sadly though, fostering self-acceptance is sometimes easier said than done. That is why today we discuss how to practice self-acceptance and some common reasons why it can sometimes be so hard.
What is Self-Abandonment? 5 Examples and How To Stop It Are you the type of person who is always trying to make other people happy, even at the cost of your own happiness, needs, and feelings? Are you somebody who says "yes", even though you really want to say "no"? Or, are you a person that does things that you actually do not agree with? Or, perhaps you find yourself going along with other people's desires? If that is the case, then you probably fit in what we call self-abandonment. This is a very new term that we are nowadays seeing often in social media and in the psychology world; but it indeed is a real and very helpful concept. It encompasses a behaviour that has been observed by a lot of psychologists in their therapy rooms. And, most importantly, it is a set of traits that largely affects our mental health and our relationships. So, in this article, we will discuss what self-abandonment is, some common signs, and how to stop abandoning yourself.
What To Do When You Feel Triggered: 3 Helpful Strategies We all get triggered. There is no one that has never been triggered by something that they have heard, seen, or felt. But, what do we exactly mean by 'getting triggered'? And, how can we better cope with our triggers and emotional reactions? In this article, we will explain the psychology behind triggers and share some strategies you can use when you feel triggered.
What is Complex Trauma? Symptoms, Examples & How To Heal Do you tend to sabotage yourself every step of the way? For example, you might know what the right decision is, or what to do in order to improve your life, but you still don't do it. Or, do you tend to dissociate from your experiences and feel as if your body is not really yours. Or, maybe you have some memory problems—times where you forget everything that happened and there are blank spaces in your mind. If any of these resonate with you, it might be that you are struggling with complex trauma. But, before you self-diagnose, let's explore what complex trauma really is, what its symptoms are, and how to heal from it.
Why Are People Rude and Unkind & Why It Isn't About You I bet that you have wondered many times in your life "why is this person so rude?" Perhaps you have also asked yourself why can't people be kind to each other all the time? We would all benefit from a kinder and more caring world, right? So, why is it that some people choose to be mean and rude towards their fellow human beings? Is it something they are born with? Are people born self-centred or are they just a product of their experience? Let's find out!
5 Self-Care Tips For Expats: Taking Care of Yourself Abroad Living abroad can be life-changing and offer fantastic memories that could last a lifetime. However, the life of an expat can be challenging. Starting from before the move, all the way until settling in, an expat is met with several challenges and demands. With such challenges and demands comes effort, time and energy in order to cope with and meet these challenges head on.
What we can say for sure is that if we don’t take care of ourselves during this time, the stress will overcome our resilience and could harm us in the long term. Therefore, we need some tips and tricks under our belt in order to support ourselves better. How To Express Anger in a Healthy Way: 6 Helpful Tips We all get angry. Some people more than others, but we all get angry from time to time. While anger is a ubiquitous and completely normal emotion, some of us struggle with regulating it and expressing it in a healthy manner. Some might suppress or repress it. While others might express it in an unhealthy way (for example, with aggression). If left unchecked, unmanaged anger can lead us to live unfulfilling lives. That is why today we want to share with you what anger is, why it is not so bad after all, and how to express it in a healthy way.
What is Religious Trauma? 9 Examples and Ways To Overcome When we think of religion, we think of it as a source of strength in hard times and a sense of direction throughout life’s challenges. Most religions are paired with a sense of belonging and support for one another. Sometimes, however, religious ideologies can be used as a weapon that can cause trauma to some. In this article we will discuss what religious trauma is and how to cope with it.
How To Build Self-Kindness: 4 Best Exercises and Tips You know that little voice in your head? The one that tells you that you are not doing good enough and won’t amount to anything. The one that tells you that you are the only one who doesn’t know what they are doing? Basically, that little voice that tells you that you are just not good enough and a failure. I have got a voice like that too. I like to call it my inner critic.
Most, if not all of us, are more unkind to ourselves than those around us. Can you imagine saying things like “you are not good enough” to those around you? If we did, I doubt we would have anyone be okay with such statements, let alone stick around. So why is it that we are so harsh with ourselves? And, how can we become our very own friends? Let's find out! What is Emotional Flooding? 4 Ways to Cope and Stop It Have you ever been in a situation where it felt like your emotions sat in the driver’s seat and took hold of the wheel? That all your sense of reasoning ended up in the back seat? We have all been there at some point in our lives. We have all experienced this out-of-control feeling of not being able to set those feelings aside and letting it consume us.
In today's article, we explore what emotional flooding is, what causes it, and how to stop it from happening. The Real Self-Care Guide for Busy Women: 10 Ways to Practise While self-care is an important practice for everybody, busy women are a group that is especially vulnerable to neglect their own mental and physical wellbeing. Societal expectations of women, hustle culture, and guilt are some of the unique challenges that the modern woman faces and which prevents her from engaging in healthy self-care. Lack of self-care can lead to a host of negative consequences and mental problems. As a result, today we bring the ultimate self-care guide for our busy women that are giving their all.
Burnout vs Depression: What’s The Difference & How To Recover Feel like you can’t take it anymore? Like your life is too much to handle? Is sleeping all you want to do all day? If yes, you might be experiencing something within yourself that isn’t quite right. Most often, this can be a sign of depression or burnout. But how can you tell the difference between the two?
 If you are reading this, there’s a chance that you might be an empath. Even though we all feel a certain level of empathy, an “empath” is someone who connects and identifies intensely and easily with other people and stimuli.
 We all know the feeling of having lost a loved one - be it a parent, a grandparent, a sibling, a partner, a child, or a pet. If you are reading this article because you have recently lost someone, please know that my heart is with you and remember that it is really okay, to not be okay right now.
Fear of Getting Old: What is Gerascophobia & How To Cope Our society is obsessed with youth. It is only necessary to look at the booming, billionare anti-ageing industry to understand the length of our obsession with appearing young. It comes as no surprise that many of us struggle with a deep-seated fear of aging. The fear of getting old is all too common and can fuel our anxiety and disrupt our mental health. That is why we want to share with you what psychology has to say about the fear of aging, and, most improtantly, discuss how to cope with this fear so that we can live more fulfilling and self-compassionate lives.
How Mindfulness Affects Our Brain and Body: 6 Proven Benefits With over 2 billion (!) results coming up on a quick google search, it’s safe to say that mindfulness has officially entered public consciousness. It seems it’s not just a hippie-weed-consuming-kind of thing anymore (was it ever, though?) but a lot of people still seem to believe that its effects and benefits are only for the mind, not the body.
How To Deal with a Perfectionist: 5 Examples and Tips Perfectionists are all around us and their unsolicited advice can wear us down. Think, for example, about those people that keep commenting about which work suits us most, how we should parent our children, how we should dress, or how we should clean our house. Why is it that the perfectionists in our lives can affect our wellbeing? And, how can we manage the perfectionists that surround us? Today we will find out.
What is a Therapy Dog? 10 Ways They Improve Our Wellbeing If you are reading this article, chances are you like animals, correct?
If you not only like animals, and dogs specifically, you might also have a pet yourself or have grown up around pets. If so, you also probably know that pets have some skills that allow them to provide us with an immense amount of support, love, and above all - acceptance. And, if you’re following our content here at Antiloneliness, you might recognize these topics as part of therapy as well. Well, you’re not the only one. How to Practice Mindfulness at Work: 5 Easy Tips The workplaces can be extremely competitive and stress-provoking environments. Long working hours, strict deadlines, difficult conversations with bosses and managers can be hard sometimes. Also, the amount of information you are bombarded with can increase your anxiety levels and can make you feel overwhelmed and disconnected from the present time. The tricky part of this bad habit is that it can easily turn into a vicious cycle. The moment you start feeling anxious, you disconnect from the present time and start focusing on future tasks or past mistakes at the workplace. In the end, it causes more anxiety, provokes stress and might cause burnout. In the long run, it can affect both your mental and physiological health. So, it is important to deal with your stress level adaptively and decrease anxiety. What can you do about this? This is where mindfulness comes in.
The Stress Cycle: How To Manage Stress The Right Way We have all been through stressful periods in our lives. For example, moving to a new country, changing jobs, or breaking up with a partner. We are all acquainted with the feeling of stress and know a couple of things about how to manage it. The problem is that we have come to believe that once we are done with a stressful experience, that’s it; we are done and do not need to do anything else. This can't be farther from the truth so today we will explore what psychologists know about managing stress the right way. We will discuss what the stress cycle is and why is it so important to complete it.
Are Perfectionists Truly Confident? The Perfectionism Paradox When we meet a perfectionist we oftentimes see the image of a perfect person that is confident and has everything figured out. We tend to think that they are very successful, that they have their life together and are under control. Unfortunately, if you delve deeper into the mind of a perfectionist, you will soon realize that this is not true. Today we will uncover the paradox of perfectionism. Whether you are eager to learn more about perfectionism or you are a perfectionist yourself, I hope this article provides you with some valuable insights.
What is People-Pleasing & Why Is It So Difficult To Stop? We all know a people-pleaser. These sorts of people can be very kind, helpful, and all around enjoyable to share time with. However, what lurks below the surface are deeply self-sabotaging tendencies that can harm the mental health of the pleasers. If you are a people-pleaser, chances are that you have tried to change your habits and mindset to no avail. Why is it that it is so difficult to stop people-pleasing? And, how is it that something so seemingly positive as pleasing others can become harmful? Let's find out.
Workaholism 101: Common Symptoms, Causes and Tips When someone asks how can they stop overworking, what they often hear is to 'simply work less or set some boundaries'. Evidently, this can help but it is not as easy and straightforward as it sounds. The truth is that there are some deeper reasons to why it is so difficult to stop being a workaholic. For instance, we might know that stopping working on a project at five is reasonable. But, we might still be compelled to work well into the night. Why is it that some of us seem addicted to work? And, how can we overcome this?
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