When you feel triggered, your instinct might be to push yourself with a high-intensity workout to blow off steam. But this approach may not always be the best, especially if you’re already feeling overwhelmed. Instead, low-intensity strength training can...

Your level of nervousness is more than psychological—it’s also physiological. There’s a reason why it’s called your nervous system. Anxiety, paranoia, and any level of nervousness affects your heart rate, blood pressure and rate of breathing. Think of the phrase “you’re raising my blood pressure” or “you’re making my blood boil.” It speaks to the truth of emotions directly being tied to your body’s response to stress.

We can’t do it all alone forever, but during the time before finding the support we need, self work is essential. Rushing to find help can lead us to the wrong type of relationships, which can cause more damage than help, or even mishandle...

We often are the hardest on ourselves. Being self-aware and accountable for the things we do wrong is necessary for our growth. However, when we beat ourselves up when we’re already down, it keeps us down. At times it can be a defense mechanism to avoid the hard things and...

We’ve all given up on a thing before, big or small. Think about how easily you gave up?.. The most common issue is quickly loosing motivation: you’re not able to stick through your plan in moments when you’re not seeing change…but those are the moments if you choose differently just one time to continue, it’ll help you to breakthrough.

Emotional health often connotes privilege and luxury. Minorities especially, or those from older generations were encouraged to ignore our emotions or simply get over them. When we consider the term health, it’s simply not a priority to most. The goal isn’t to become a victim, but rather to build better capacity to manage emotions rather than simply ignore them…

The reason why self-talk is important is because it directly impacts our mental health. An example of what it may sound like for someone to never start their fitness journey, despite how much they desire it, can sound something like this: “I’m depressed, I feel stuck…why can’t I just start?” “I feel self-conscious.” It becomes a cycle of self-judgement and self-criticism, which either beats complacency in never starting or drives us to reach physical goals without the mental and emotional fulfillment.

This is for all the people that don’t talk about the things that they bottle up inside themselves - and don’t know how to or don’t want to. That way of being however, makes the feeling only bigger. So what are you avoiding…