Weekly Wisdom

5 Characteristics of Emotional Intelligence

5  Characteristics  Emotional Intelligence The balance and depth of emotions is critical to leading ...

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7 Ways to Make Your Home a Haven for Youth

Five years ago, the American Psychological Association (APA) published the results of an intensive  ...

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Helping Men Reach Optimal Mental Health

One of the more common tropes in television and movies is that of the man lost on a country road, st...

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Nine Things Not to Say to Someone Who Is Grieving

Death is often referred to as life’s great equalizer.  And, it’s true, we all die eventually.  But t...

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12 Ways to Boost Emotional Intelligence

Very often in life, we look at a person who has made it through a difficult time—the death of a love...

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Ten Tools for Getting Through the Dog Days of Summer—or Life

This week marks the beginning of that stretch of year often referred to as the Dog Days of Summer. I...

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Identifying and Healing Negative Family Patterns

The late American screenwriter Frank Howard Clark once said, “Habit is something you can do without ...

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Facing Addiction Head On

Addiction is a tough word—one that no one wants associated with themselves or with a loved one. In r...

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How to Embrace Success

After a whirlwind of travel, and with another week of flights and workshops ahead of me, I settled i...

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4 Ways to Use Essential Oils to Help Heal Your Gut

Recently on my  Emotions Mentor podcast , I spoke with functional medicine practitioner  Melissa Esg...

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Mindfulness Meditation and Essential Oils

Healing from  anger , frustration,  anxiety , stress,  exhaustion , or any other emotional ailment t...

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6 Tips for Changing the Way You Think about Yourself

Learning to feel comfortable in your own skin, to truly love who you are, takes a lot of work. But, ...

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Releasing Trapped Emotions

“She died of a broken heart.”  “He’s carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.”  “Butterfli...

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6 Essential Oil Recipes to Help Balance Hormones

, From the time a pre-teen girl starts puberty to the time she reaches her 40s and 50s, the hormones...

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How to Understand PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, affects millions of Americans each year—men, women, and chi...

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7 Sensory Tools for Better Mental Health

Sight. Smell. Hearing. Touch. Taste. Our primary senses do much more than enable us to see, smell, h...

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6 Ways to Build Resilience

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”  I love this thought fro...

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Emotions and Physical Health

A  growing   body  of research over the past few decades has demonstrated a clear link between emoti...

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5 Traits—and Essential Oil Tips—for Developing a Winning Mindset

Winning takes talent, hard work, some inspiration, and often a little luck. But there is one other e...

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Hope and Healing in Adoption

The moment of adoption is a joyous occasion for parents who have prepared their hearts and homes to ...

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