The challenge of being a woman, a mom and a worker Today, men and women share positions of power and decision in companies. We all care about development and prosperity. But that job progress also invisibly depends on our individual emotional realities. In fact, we are not as creative or lucid when we have worries at home. Now, there is…
Take weight off your weight Since I can remember, I have been a person with a body considered “extra”, something that for some reason continues to have many negative connotations today. That’s how I grew up, seeing my body as something bad, something wrong. In addition to having extra weight, I am a tall woman, so we could consider that…
Meditation and Motherhood It goes without saying that being a mom is hard work. We think that having a lot of information available on the subject will make the job easier, so we know everything, sleep schedules, healthy food menus, parenting theories and even what cleaning product to use at home. But landing all that information on our lifestyle, temperament…
Languor: The Dominant Emotion of 2021 That discomfort you feel is called languor and it is the dominant emotion of 2020 and 2021. It is described as a feeling of stagnation and emptiness. Symptoms of languor include: mental exhaustion, lack of motivation, and numbness. Many of us have been feeling trapped, in a kind of limbo. Life seems to us…
Dogs as emotional support Animals play an increasingly important role in people’s lives, including being required as “emotional support”, that is, those pets that help their owners regulate and modulate any fear or emotional or mental imbalance. Caring for a dog is a laborious but rewarding task. It implies love, care, time and responsibility. However, when you have love,…
Digital Detox The days were very long during confinement and we missed a lot of people. We also wanted to keep our heads busy. And where do we find comfort, avoidance and that ‘contact’ with our loved ones that we so longed for? What allowed us to move forward, teleworking, buying ‘online’ or informing ourselves of the evolution of the…
What Turns Me Off of 12 Step Meetings and Why 12 Step Advice can Affect Harm Reduction in Opiate Rehabilitation I was walking back home from school one afternoon. I was fifteen years old at the time and I remember it was a sunny autumn day. For some reason I can’t recall what happened, however I woke up in the…
You are not alone My mental health has been seriously affected these days and I have felt very bad, it is emotionally and physically exhausting, my capacity has been reduced in almost every aspect of my life. It has become almost impossible for me to tell someone because I am very afraid of what they will say and because I…
Learning to Forgive When I remember the people who have hurt me, I give myself the task of wishing them all kinds of calamities, justified in the pain or the affectation they caused me. Immediately, I am filled with negative thoughts and feelings that are activated within, becoming once again, a victim of what they did, all this, without any…
Eating Disorders An eating disorder is a serious mental illness, characterized by eating, exercise and body weight or shape becoming an unhealthy preoccupation of someone’s life. Eating disorders are a group of problems related to what the person eats. How she values her body and relates to herself, her food and her environment. Within eating disorders we can find several….
