Trigger warning: the topic of this article may be triggering. Stress eating is when you try and eat all your problems away. It is when you feel tense, stressed, anxious, or emotional and you end up eating more than you can stomach. Relief comes first. Guilt comes after. Stress eating may feel good at first, …
Most of us hate small talk. It makes interactions with people you care about less exciting. Meaningful conversations are an important factor for happiness. They make us feel less alone and more heard. People who spend less time alone and more time talking to others have a much greater sense of personal well-being, suggests the …
Trigger warning: this article mentions suicide and self-harm. For a lot of us, social media is centered around our world. Take, for example, when we are hit with an awkward silence during a conversation, the first thing our hands tend to reach out for is our phone. What was once considered rude has now become …
Validation is the “the recognition of a person’s thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behaviors as valid and understandable.” Invalidation, then, is the dismissal or rejection of a person’s thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behaviors. Invalidation has detrimental consequences that we must raise awareness about. What is Psychological Invalidation? While emotional validation is the basis for emotional safety …
According to the Oxford Dictionary, self-care is defined as “the practice of taking action to preserve or improve one’s own health.” This includes various methods that we tend to discuss quite extensively on Aware. We talk about many methods you can try physically, such as cooking, journaling, exercising, and going to the beach. However, we …
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