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Mental Health, Therapy Tools and Coping Skills Lena McCain MA, LPC 0017723 Mental Health, Therapy Tools and Coping Skills Lena McCain MA, LPC 0017723

How to Relieve Stress and Gain Clarity: A Quick Mindfulness Practice

So often, distracting ourselves becomes a mundane task of living our lives. To give way to our busied thoughts and tasks of the every day such as school, work, family, friends, chores. Our instinct unfolds to this idea that it is easier to be absent-minded to ourselves - to our fears, our anxieties, our worries - all the pressures and demands of our lives. Thus the distraction becomes easier than the ability to pay attention.

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Mental Health Lena McCain MA, LPC 0017723 Mental Health Lena McCain MA, LPC 0017723

How to Find the Right Self-Care For You

It’s all over social media and it’s in all of our personal conversations, it’s the topic of self-care. There are so many different ideas and opinions going around on what self-care is (and isn’t), none of which are necessarily wrong. But more than anything, is leaving a lot of unanswered questions and confusion about what each person should be doing for self-care. And honestly, this is a really tricky topic to talk about because self-care isn’t universal.

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