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Thanksgiving: A Grateful Heart

November 26, 2014
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Articles, Managing the Holidays, Relationships

Thanksgiving is a time of family, tradition, love, abundance, and appreciation. It’s celebrated nationwide annually by all cultures and religions, and in other countries on different days in different ways.  Here in the USA, it’s the most heavily travelled day of the year marking it as one of the most popular national celebrations.  For many, it kicks off the holiday season beginning an exciting time of gathering, feasting, and memory making. Our celebration of Thanksgiving began in 1621 at a Plymouth feast prompted by a good harvest.  President George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide Thanksgiving celebration on November 26,1789.  He declared it a day observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many favors received. It’s been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863.  In...

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Confidence Coaching – Empowering You

October 29, 2014
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Articles, Self Esteem

[caption id="attachment_1931" align="alignleft" width="300"] New York Psychotherapy and Life Coaching[/caption] Who hasn't experienced a knot in the stomach, a lightheaded feeling, or tunnel vision in the moments before a performance, important meeting, or unfamiliar situation? Nobody!  Whether you’re giving a talk, playing a song, or simply networking – stage fright is a very real thing.  Self confidence is at risk.  It is stifling to believe you didn't measure up or worse, you let someone down.  It can stop you from stretching to new heights and leave you longing for your safe zone – which might prompt a counterproductive step back to avoid the new challenge. Create your intention.  Recall moments you felt fully competent.  Tap into that feeling emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and viscerally.  Allow your consciousness to absorb all those positive thoughts, feelings,...

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Unleash Your Curiosity and Creativity

October 10, 2014
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Ever wonder where inspiration and innovation come from? How does one expand their awareness and stretch their imagination to new heights? What happens when curiosity is unleashed?  What if no barriers existed - financial, temporal, spiritual?  What if your inner critic was quieted? Neuroscientists have demonstrated that indulging your curiosities through all five senses can strengthen the positive neural pathways responsible for greater awareness, improved mood, and a natural predisposition to experiencing positivity more easily and more often. Use your gifts of taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing to fully experience your surroundings and engage your imagination. This is where genius is born. This is where freedom exists. "The five senses are the ministers of the soul." -  Leonardo da Vinci. Indulge your curiosity. Strengthen your creative...

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Toolbox for Health and Happiness

October 10, 2014
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Stress Management

My excitingly educational cousin, Jessi Haggerty, RD asked me to share my toolbox for happiness and stress management during the cool and blustery months of fall and winter. Schedules, expectations, and priorities change with the waning of the long and happy-go-lucky days of summer. It’s an exciting lifestyle shift for many, and an anxiety provoking one for others.  How does one maintain the relaxed, positive glow of summer throughout the other three seasons?  Follow these tips for a quick tune up when your psychic engine starts to sputter… 10. Positive Affirmations.   Look out for #1.  Remind yourself of your worth.  Find a mantra that gives you energy and a forward focus.  I like these… I am basically alright as I am.  I am free to make...

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Psychology Today – Saying Goodbye to Hurt

October 10, 2014
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Articles, Psychology Today Articles - In the Press!, Relationships, Stress Management

Lingering resentment from things that have gone wrong is hard to shake. Whether it’s the result of a bad break up or a job loss, it’s best to find some resolution. It would be wonderful if we all got exactly what we wanted, and when we wanted it.  But, the hard truth is that good things often take a lot of time and usually a few set backs along the way. Once you’ve made a strong commitment and things still don’t work out, how do you pick up the pieces and carry on?  To find your center again, you'll have to muster the strength to let go of negative feelings and shift your attention to a world that is more positive. So, how do you get that betrayal or toxic...

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Glow From the Inside Out: Deliciously Nutritious Tips

September 23, 2014
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The excitingly educational and deliciously nutritious, Jessi Haggerty, RD authored this blog post about simple ways to keep your skin healthy and glowing year round.  She is a Boston based Registered Dietician and Personal Trainer with a decade of experience in the health and wellness industry.  She uses her expertise in weight loss, gastrointestinal disorders, functional movement, yoga, and culinary arts to offer a 360-degree, all around, completely integrated wellness experience.  She tops it all off with a little bit of fun, and whole lot of fabulous to give you one of the most unique, gratifying, and sustainable solutions to long-lasting health around.  Her 10 tips below for prolonging that youthful appearance also aid in mental, physical, and spiritual health to boot! Check them out...

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Can Lucy Empower Us? Find YOUR Moxie, Love, and Boundaries

August 5, 2014
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Lucy - “An action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.” - Lucymovie.com The trailer for Lucy had me riveted.  The story of a beautiful, limitlessly intelligent, lethally strong woman who can conquer the world effortlessly had Girl-Power written all over it.  I was impatiently awaiting the opening of this new Luc Besson film.  Allure, knowledge, and power embodied by Scarlett Johansson is fodder for women’s empowerment and self esteem.   Unfortunately, there were several flaws in Lucy’s all powerful and all knowing character and storyline.  The first disappointment was when she gave in to Richard’s, her new boyfriend, request to deliver a suspicious briefcase. She refused...

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Putting the Brakes on Stress

July 22, 2014
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Articles, Stress Management

Have you ever had one of those days where nothing seems to go right?  Maybe you’re rushed in the morning and get a flat tire on your way to work, making you late and stuck in traffic.  Perhaps your bicycle chain pops off in a busy intersection and you miss yoga class due to the time spent fixing it on the sidewalk, you’re stressed and your fingers are covered in black grease.  Or much worse, you get the bad news that a friend is sick and facing the uncertainty of an unknown diagnosis and unclear prognosis. You want to help but aren’t sure how. Sometimes a series of unfortunate events unfold before your eyes, face, and entire being. I won’t bore you with the details of...

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Personality Type:  Know Yourself

June 11, 2014
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Articles, Career, Goal Setting

Personality type has its roots in a psychological theory dating back to the 1920's. The Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung (1875-1961) known for his work on the psyche, ego, personal unconscious, collective unconscious, archetypes, and dream analysis also developed the enduring theory of personality types based on psychological opposites.  Jung and  Sigmund Freud collaborated from about 1907-1909 addressing Freud’s mission of making the unconscious conscious through the practice of psychoanalysis. Jung’s personality theory explains normal differences between healthy people.  He concluded that these differences in behavior stem from inborn tendencies to use our minds in different ways and can be influenced by culture, family, and the environment. Each of us possesses all six characteristics he defined in his personality theory, but we favor one or the other...

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Heather Edwards, LMHC, LPC, NCC, BCC is licensed in NY, RI, PA, & FL. She is an EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, Life Coach, & Board Certified Counselor.

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