Mental health
Massiel Bradberry
Beneath The Surface of High Functioning Anxiety

High-Functioning Anxiety is a complex and often misunderstood experience. The iceberg metaphor serves as a visual representation of the layers of emotions and pressures that people with HFA typically navigate beneath the surface. 

Beneath The Surface of High Functioning Anxiety
Self Esteem, Tips
Massiel Bradberry
Your body is not your worth. Body neutrality ...

Most of us have heard of the body positivity movement, and while its intentions are good, unconditionally loving one’s body and appearance can seem unrealistic to a lot of people, especially when we consider that 80% of women and 34% of men reported being dissatisfied with their bodies That’s why we want to share a middle ground with you, body neutrality, a place where liking your body isn’t a prerequisite for feeling good about yourself.

Your body is not your worth. Body neutrality & radical self-acceptance

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How To Cultivate Self-Compassion: Part 4. Positive Comparison

How To Cultivate Self-Compassion: Part 4. Positive Comparison

Welcome to part 4 of our self-compassion journal series! We’ve explored what self-compassion through daily journaling, letter writing, and positive affirmations. Today we’re cultivating self-compassion through positive comparison.

Social comparison is completely natural in the development of humans. It’s normal to compare your productivity, looks, and abilities to other people in order to place yourself in the world. With such easy access now to heavily curated lives online, it can be even harder to avoid falling into a hole of jealousy and negative comparison. But there is a way that we can empower ourselves through comparison too. The trick? Self-compassion of course!

How To Cultivate Self-Compassion: Part 3. You Are Loved (Affirmations)

How To Cultivate Self-Compassion: Part 3. You Are Loved (Affirmations)

It’s true, people love you.

Research shows the more we practice being kind to ourselves, the more we increase and strengthen our self-compassion habit. One way we can practice self-kindness is through one of our favorite mental health tools, positive affirmations. Today we’re talking about rehearsing the internalized voices of all those who have been kind to you through positive affirmations.

How to Cultivate Self-Compassion: Part 2. Letter Writing

How to Cultivate Self-Compassion: Part 2. Letter Writing

Something radical happens when you choose to become your own best friend. We all have insecurities or things we don’t like about ourselves, it’s a part of the human condition. Have you ever noticed how you talk to a friend when they’re struggling? Usually when it comes to other people, especially the people we love, compassion for suffering feels natural. Why is it that when we speak to ourselves we often lose that gentleness, understanding, and compassion?

With inspiration from Dr. Kristin Neff, we created a 4 part series on cultivating self-compassion through writing. Today we’re sharing a 3 step practice on how to be a friend to yourself through letter writing. Grab a pen and paper and follow along!

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How to Stop Overcommitting Because It's Okay to Say "No"

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How to Stop Overcommitting Because It's Okay to Say "No"

We say yes a lot, and if you’re anything like us you might have a habit of saying it when you don’t always mean it. We do this for so many reasons - we don’t want to say no in fear that we won’t be asked to hang out again, we might fear disappointing someone by not agreeing to help, or we might worry about being perceived as lazy or unproductive. Whatever the reason is, by justifying why we constantly need to satisfy others, we in turn our betraying our own self-respect. The thing is, your time is never less worthy than someone else’s. Once we reconnect with our awareness and see how truly valuable our time, space and energy are, we can be better equipped to know where to set our boundaries and how to honor them; and sometimes that means saying “No.”

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A Roadmap to Self-Acceptance

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A Roadmap to Self-Acceptance

Self-acceptance is the act or state of complete acceptance of oneself with the awareness and understanding of one’s own capabilities and limitations. Self-acceptance means embracing not only the “good” or positive parts of ourselves, but embracing the uglier, scarier, more vulnerable parts too.

Learning to truly accept ourselves helps us to develop an understanding that we are separate from our actions. Your mistakes are mistakes, but not a direct representation of who you are, and they absolutely do not define you. Self-acceptance is an important tool in creating an authentic life, strengthening our relationship with ourselves, and ultimately living a more fulfilling life.