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10 Coping strategies for stress and anxiety!

We all battle from stress and anxiety through our hectic lives of balancing work, social life, responsibilities, and home life. A little bit of stress can actually catapult us into action, and motivate us to achieve a lot with our careers, or personal motivations, etc.  However, too much worrying and stressing can negatively affect us…

Feeling numb, apathetic, or bored?

Lately, I’ve been coming across many individuals who feel that the spark of life has diminished and all that’s left behind is the tiny bit of smoke from the flame that once burned so fierce.  If you find yourself relating to the lyrics recited by The Edge in U2′s hit 90′s song “Numb”, you may…

Do you have subway/public transporation rage?

We’ve all heard of road rage, and at times, although it’s hard to admit, we’ve all fallen culprit to having it.  So what is this ‘subway rage’ that I’m writing about? Well, have you ever found yourself muttering under your breath or feel your blood pressure rise as people refuse to utilize the space within…

Relationship advice from Dr. Seuss and the like???

With all of the relationship dating help and advice books out there, one can often become overwhelmed with where to go and what to look for when looking for answers on the mysteries of the dating world.  Why not keep it simple?  Can we actually revert back to our childhood for the answers to one…

Heart filled love, prayer, and a plea out to UT’ers

The University of Texas at Austin, my home for 4 years of my undergraduate career, suffered a terrible tragedy yesterday, which I’m sure you have heard or read about in the news.  A gunman opened fired and then killed himself in the PCL library on campus.  The incident sent the campus into a tailspin of…

Are you impulsive?

People respond to social situations, dilemmas, and life events very differently from each other.  Some people may take a situation, analyze all the possible outcomes very carefully before deciding to act, while others jump right into the thick of any situation and see where the roller-coaster takes them!  There is no right or wrong way…

Me vs. Me: Confronting our Inner Critic

How often do we as people live through our daily lives completing our tasks that we must complete all the while having our minds constantly criticize our every move?  We often hear the phrase “you are your biggest critic,” but do we really understand what that means??  Even for myself, there are so many goals…