Coping With Today’s Challenges
In a world filled with uncertainty, divisive conversations, and information overload, staying grounded can feel overwhelming. This collection offers insights and practical tools to help you manage stress and cultivate a resilient mindset.
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Manage News and Social Media Mindfully • Minimize and Transform Your Stress • Cultivate a Resilient Mindset • Understand and Manage Difficult Emotions • Rediscover Your Empath
Manage News and Social Media Mindfully
How to Lower Your Political Stress Level
A constant barrage of political advertising and infighting can raise your anxiety level. Here’s how to calm down this election season.
What to Do When a Loved One Posts Misinformation
Misinformation is all around us, even in our social circles. Learn how to respond to it without losing your cool.
7 Ways to Spot Misinformation on Social Media
On social media, separating fact from fiction isn’t always easy. Use these tips to help cut through the noise.
When Not to Share on Social Media
Posting about your life on social media is now considered the norm — but there is some information that is best kept offline. Check out these tips on online etiquette.
What to Do When the News Stresses You Out
Experiencing headline anxiety? Protect your mental health with these calming tips.
Minimize and Transform Your Stress
5 Techniques for Managing Stress in the Moment
Try these quick exercises for immediate support during stressful times.
Reset Your Stress Response
Being on high alert for too long can put you into adrenal overdrive. Learn how to shift from fight-or-flight mode into calmer states that help your body recover.
Transform Your Reality With 3 Deep Breaths
Start by breathing in focus, discovery and possibility — then see the world through different eyes.
9 Tips to Minimize and Manage Stress
There are plenty of effective (and mostly pleasant) things you can do to minimize and manage your stress.
Struggling With Stress: Why It’s So Prevalent + What You Can Do
More so than ever, rates of stress are high: Many of us are experiencing it at great intensities and for far too long. Henry Emmons, MD, talks about the impact of stress on the body, including how it influences our wired responses and how it can trigger mental-health issues like depression and anxiety — and shares tangible things we can do in the short- and long-term to support our bodies in and when recovering from times of stress.
Cultivate a Resilient Mindset
The 5 Best Ways to Build Resiliency
Why do some people bounce back from adversity and misfortune? Why do others fall apart? Find out which character strengths make all the difference — and how you can develop them yourself.
Building Mental Resilience: 6 Mind-Body Grounding Exercises
Learn how to reduce your body’s stress response in Part One of this three-part series.
4 Ways to Stay Positive In a Negative World
Tips to keep from feeling defeated by life or scared about the future.
How to Embrace Uncertainty
Ease your concerns about the unknown by learning to get comfortable with the unknowable.
How to Break Free From Fear
A shamanic healer explains how fear drains our vitality — and how we can reclaim more energy.
Speaking Your Truth
Voicing your opinions can be uncomfortable. Here’s how to speak your mind when it counts.
How to Harness Your Personal Power
Explorations on the true nature of personal power: Where it comes from, how it works, and how to wield it well.
How to Cultivate an Open Mindset
Feeling hermetically sealed in your own opinions? Opening your mind to other viewpoints can deepen your personal wisdom and broaden your horizons.
Understand and Manage Difficult Emotions
6 Difficult Emotions and How to Deal With Them
We often resist challenging emotions, like anger and sadness, but embracing and accepting them is a key step toward wholeness.
4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Expressing a Strong Emotion
Practicing healthy emotional expression helps us to acknowledge our emotions without letting them control us. Use these questions to determine the most appropriate way to express your feelings in any situation.
13 Strategies to Deal With Your Emotional Triggers
A psychotherapist offers actionable advice for handling our trigger reactions.
8 Anger Management Strategies
The fire of anger can burn us — but it’s also an important, essential, even creative emotion. Learn to control your anger, before it controls you.
Rediscover Your Empathy
8 Ways to Rediscover Empathy
Our ability to feel compassion for others helps us survive and thrive. Learn how to feel empathy without burning out.
How to Build Empathy and Compassion in Your Community
There’s a big difference between cursory cordiality and true benevolence. Our experts make the case for spreading deep kindness in your community.
How Humans Are Wired for Compassion
Our brains are wired to care for others, even when it may seem like too much to ask.
5 Ways to Love Deeply and Well
Learning to love well might be the most important thing we can do for our health and well-being.
