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Bibliotherapy: Boost Well-being and Find Community With a Therapeutic Book Club

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They can focus on fiction or nonfiction, have themes to guide book choices, and be organized through places like work, school, professional organizations, religious groups and libraries. With all the chaos and stress in the world, people are craving community and healing.

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The Best Meditation Apps for Anxiety

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But can guided and unguided meditation help you alleviate the fear, depression and stress associated with anxiety? We found our favorite app specifically designed to overcome stress. Its “Breathe” animated interface easily helps you take control of breathing, reducing anxiety brought on by fear or stress. Insight Timer.

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Headspace vs. Calm: Which Is Right for You?

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Calm is better than Headspace in: Greater variety of sleep tracks Cohesiveness with meditation instructor Tamara Levitt Overall ambience and sound quality More content for child and adolescent sleep and behavioral issues Larger meditation library to explore. Headspace guides you to a healthier, holistic lifestyle.

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13 Best Meditation Apps to Add Mindfulness to Your Self-Care Routine [2021]

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In fact, meditation apps help millions to overcome depression, relieve stress, sleep better, develop mindfulness, reduce anxiety and increase focus. Hundreds of professionally guided meditations teach you to relieve stress and live a fuller existence. But don’t worry if that huge library of meditation exercises sounds intimidating.

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How to Cultivate a Growth Mindset

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Positive mindsets reduce stress. A small clinical trial published in the Journal of Education and Health Promotion found that “positive thinking training” increased feelings of positivity and reduced rates of stress and anxiety among hemodialysis patients. Negativity steals our power. Others’ mindsets influence our own.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. The stress-reducing power of assertiveness. And it worked. “I

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How 30 Days of Kindness Made Me a Better Person

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For a precious hour or so every day, the fear, anxiety, stress and doubt of daily life didn’t plague my thoughts. Make a meal for a friend who’s stressed. Sign up to read at a children’s reading hour at the library or local bookstore. I briefly forgot about myself, and it was intoxicating. Start a conversation with a stranger.

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