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How to use anxiety to improve your life

Mindset admin September 5, 2019September 5, 2019 3 comments

Disclaimer: This post is talking about the type of anxiety that all humans get. If you have an anxiety disorder and are struggling, seek help your primary care provider and especially from a counsellor you…

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How to Do it all: Priorities, Values & Dreams

How to Do It All: Priorities, Values, and Dreams

Grow Samantha June 2, 2019June 9, 2019 Comments

Before we start taking action, we need to know what it is that we want to do. There is a lot of pressure to do what our family, friends, and society want from us. And there is a lot of overlap between what other people want and what I want.

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Can you be a perfectionist without knowing it?

Mindset Samantha February 25, 2019March 30, 2019 Comments

You believe the saying, “Everything worth doing is worth doing well.” And you also believe the flip side of that saying. If you can’t do it well, don’t do it at all. But you might not even realize that you have these beliefs. I didn’t.

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Before you start another diet, read this.

Eat Samantha February 11, 2019March 30, 2019 2 comments

The people who sell diets know something about how your mind works. They don’t want you to know about it. So before you decide to start another diet, read this.

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“I have no willpower.” A case for self-care.

Mindset Samantha February 3, 2019March 30, 2019 1 comment

Welcome to February. In this month, most people who set New Year’s Resolutions will have given up on them. It is also a month of love – with Valentine’s Day putting romantic relationships on display. These two facts might seem unrelated. But I think these two ideas are more connected than we might believe at first glance…

Why emotional eating is a good thing

Eat Samantha October 14, 2018April 28, 2019 Comments

Today I’d like defend emotional eating. We all eat for reasons other than hunger. It might be a daily occurrence, or it might be less often. But we’ve all done it. I could look at…

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Self-care isn’t just fluff

Mindset Samantha September 2, 2018April 28, 2019 Comments

Welcome to the final article of the Foundations 101 series: Care. I invite you to Care, for others and especially for yourself. It seems obvious to us to say that we should always aim to…

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