Lifestyle habits can have a strong influence on your amygdala. If you engage in regular aerobic exercise, especially exercise that uses large muscle groups, the positive effects on both your amygdala and your cortex can help improve your mood. Regular aerobic exercise can also improve your brain's neuroplasticity, making both your amygdala and your cortex … Continue reading Exercise, Sleep, and Anxiety: Rewire your brain
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Self-Care Assessment – See Where You’re At
Use this assessment to check-in with yourself to see how you're doing with self-care. Self-care activities are the things that we do to maintain our mental, physical, spiritual, and professional well-being. You’ll find that many of the activities listed below are ones that you already do in your daily routine. In this assessment, you will … Continue reading Self-Care Assessment – See Where You’re At
Amy the Amygdala: A silly way to remember the function of the amygdala and how to calm it
What is the amygdala and what does it do? Anxiety comes from two places in the brain. One is the cortex and the other is the thalamus. We receive information about our environment through our eyes and it goes to the cortex and thalamus. The cortex is usually the part of the brain that people … Continue reading Amy the Amygdala: A silly way to remember the function of the amygdala and how to calm it
Be Your Own Sunshine: Make changes
"You cannot expect to meet new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change." Les Brown Sometimes you have to be your own sunshine. We can't fully control our environment and what's going on around us, but we can change what's going on within us. Ugly weather, pandemic, dealing with grief, loss, depression, … Continue reading Be Your Own Sunshine: Make changes
How I Reshaped My Relationship to My Life-Threatening Encounter with a Cougar
Fastest Known Time, Unsupported, Women's Record We all experience scary events, some are traumatic, terrifying, and shake us to our core. If it was a traumatic event, it literally reshapes both body and brain. A small way to address this reaction is to change your relationship or the way that you think about the traumatic … Continue reading How I Reshaped My Relationship to My Life-Threatening Encounter with a Cougar
Never Lose Hope, Even When Times Feel Hopeless: Seasons change
Never lose hope because things can change. Circumstances and situations change, sometimes in the blink of an eye and sometimes over a few years. I like spending time outdoors, so I think of change as weather patterns and seasons. Using this as a metaphor, we dress appropriately for the daily weather and for each season, … Continue reading Never Lose Hope, Even When Times Feel Hopeless: Seasons change
1% Better Habits and Goals
1% - Think about it If we made a small change in our lives every single day, just 1% better, what would our lives look like? How much improvement would we see? How much closer would we be to our goals? We often don't notice tiny changes or progress until they build up over time. … Continue reading 1% Better Habits and Goals
Ways to Strengthen Runner’s Body Image and Positivity
As runners, we need to make sure that we’re protecting our body image and promoting body positivity. Acknowledge that all of our bodies are different, setting aside judgments, opinions, and expectations of what our body should look like as runners. Know that all of our bodies are incredible and capable of so much. They can … Continue reading Ways to Strengthen Runner’s Body Image and Positivity
Self-Care and Healthy Habits – Things that we need
A short talk about self-care. Self-care is something that seems easy, but it’s actually kind of difficult to do. I feel this topic is discussed over and over again, it's a hot topic, but yet, we all still struggle with it. We all Fail at it from time to time! I can’t think of a … Continue reading Self-Care and Healthy Habits – Things that we need
About Finish Stronger Counseling’s YouTube Channel
The purpose of my YouTube channel is to provide you with information on mental health and tips to help you get through everyday life. Since I'm passionate about running and the outdoors, you may also see that as it relates to mental health. https://youtu.be/Gc67R0__BqY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygw8-n6kcSA https://youtube.com/shorts/Lscebpchwpw?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYe4JgYCkeg https://youtu.be/boybIAg4pKw Related information ABOUT FINISH STRONGER COUNSELING’S FACEBOOK … Continue reading About Finish Stronger Counseling’s YouTube Channel