Certified emotional healing and relationship coach Rebeccah Silence offers opportunities for “true breakthroughs” for anyone struggling to overcome pain patterns stemming from unhealed past experiences in her new book, Coming Back to Life: A Roadmap to Healing from Pain to Create the Life You Want. Continue reading Learn How to Course-Correct Pain Patterns and Live Healthy, Happy and Free
Like clams finding nourishment from filter feeding, Rosemary Schmidt derives strength from taking in the bits and bytes of information swirling all around her and weaving it into a cohesive mosaic. Putting thoughts and ideas into a logical sequence that tells a story helps her make sense of a sometimes senseless world. Continue reading The Happy Clam Treads New Waters in Search of Harmonious Life
As the COVID-19 pandemic upends life as people know it, changing daily routines, limiting social interactions and shaking their sense of safety, a mental health experts from U.S. hospital Cleveland Clinic’s Mellen Center is stressing that it is perfectly acceptable to feel sad about all of it. Continue reading Mental Health Expert Urges People to Accept Grief and Other Feelings Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Learning to forgive is absolutely key to heal and maintain a resilient psychology. Mental health expert, Resha Erheim, shares some steps that will take you through the journey of forgiveness. Continue reading Learning to Forgive Can Improve Your Mental Health
A doctor explains how modern technology and apps are making it easier to diagnose autism, as well as teach children with autism important skills. Continue reading Using Technology to Tackle Autism
Just Be gives back to the community by bringing new perspectives to holistic wellbeing In line with the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to make Dubai the happiest city on earth, Just Be launches a self-care campaign on the 14th of April from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm. … Continue reading ‘It’s Time to Change’ with Just Be’s self-care campaign
Discover Your Light – A Wellbeing Event is a full day of interactive wellbeing workshops, informal discussions and activities for all ages taking place on Saturday 27th January from 10am until 3pm at their Center for Wellbeing located at 821 Al Wasl Road, Al Safa 2, Dubai. Continue reading Discover Your Light at The LightHouse Arabia
One of the strongest universal truths is that parenting is tough, and with life’s ever-increasing pace it is only getting tougher. For over 20 years, Hand in Hand Parenting (handinhandparenting.org) has recognized this and dedicated itself to giving parents the practical tools and support they need to deliver love and guidance to their children to create warm relationships that will last a lifetime. Tanshi2a (tanshi2a.com), a community based Emirati social enterprise, is proud to now partner with Hand in Hand to bring its Parenting by Connection seminar and workshop to the UAE in January 2018. Continue reading Hand in Hand Parenting Comes to the Middle East for the First Time Ever
For as long as I can remember, we have been indirectly taught by our social construction NOT to feel negative emotions. From a very young age, we get emotionally invalidated in so many ways until that becomes our norm. We get told not to cry or not to get angry, which teaches us to avoid unpleasant feelings at any cost. With continuous practice, following what we have been taught to be the right thing, we get programmed to send our negative emotions to the subconscious mind where they get manifested into other forms. Continue reading Emotional Acceptance: Not Feeling OK is Perfectly OK
Expressive writing can be described as an activity that expresses “major upheavals” in one’s life. It is writing that directly comes out from our innermost insecurities and it usually does not reflect on the events that take place but rather on one’s feelings and thoughts about these events. It is a type of writing specially used as a tool for stress management. Rather than repressing emotions such as anger and hostility, people can reflect their feeling through writing and therefore ventilate the negativity that comes in tandem. Simple examples of expressive writing would be keeping a diary or a daily journal. Continue reading Therapy in a Journal
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