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15 Ways to Find Your Purpose of Life & Realize Your Meaning
Reading my philosophy thesis was like receiving an email from my 25-year-old self. “You don’t find meaning; you create it,” was my answer to the [...]
Living With the Inner Critic: 8 Helpful Worksheets (+ PDF)
We all know this voice in our head that constantly criticizes, belittles, and judges us. This voice has many names: inner critic, judge, saboteur, the [...]
Marriage Counseling Toolkit: 30 Couples Therapy Worksheets
While research confirms that marriage leads to increased life satisfaction, it is not without its challenges (Boyce, Wood, & Ferguson, 2016). Indeed, according to the [...]
Catastrophizing and Decatastrophizing: A Comprehensive Guide
If your imagination has ever run amok, dragging you through a repeat cycle of worst possible scenarios, then you likely understand the concept of ‘catastrophizing.’ [...]
12 Effective Coaching Models to Help Your Clients Grow
Coaching, in its many forms, offers powerful insights for thousands of people around the world. Whether it’s a project team that aims to optimize performance, [...]
Understanding Emotions: 15 Ways to Identify Your Feelings
Human emotions evolved so that we can respond quickly to life-or-death situations. After all, while fear may prevent us from behaving in a ‘life-limiting’ way, [...]
Your Complete Nonviolent Communication Guide
Is the way that we communicate violent? If we define violence as causing harm to ourselves and others, then much of the way we communicate [...]
What Are Distress Tolerance Skills? Your Ultimate DBT Toolkit
Whether perceived or actual, emotional stress is challenging to deal with, especially for some people with a trauma history. This inability may significantly worsen during [...]
Self-Esteem for Kids: 30+ Counseling Tools & Activities
Self-esteem is crucial to children’s academic achievement, participation, engagement in activities, social relationships, and, ultimately, their sense of wellbeing. Children low in self-esteem tend to [...]
20 Creative Self-Care Activities for Groups
Let’s be honest; the world today is quite chaotic. Self-care has never been more critical in an age when we have had to deal with [...]