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Read more about the article Healthy Boundaries: How to Set and Stay Within Your Limits
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Healthy Boundaries: How to Set and Stay Within Your Limits

  • Post author:Urim Recovery
  • Post published:August 2, 2022
  • Post category:Boundaries/Lifestyle/Strategies/Stress
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Maintaining healthy boundaries is crucial if you want to lock in your gains from therapy. Learn how to set boundaries as a part of self-care.

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Read more about the article Stress: Proven Ways to Manage and Reduce its Impact
Identifying the source of stress is important for stress relief

Stress: Proven Ways to Manage and Reduce its Impact

  • Post author:Urim Recovery
  • Post published:July 20, 2022
  • Post category:Anxiety/Coping Skills/Meditation/Mindfulness/Stress
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As intuitive as it may seem, it's not work, finances, health or relationships that cause stress. Our stress is often caused by how we feel about these things.

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Read more about the article Autogenic Training – Learn How to Manage High Stress
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Autogenic Training – Learn How to Manage High Stress

  • Post author:Urim Recovery
  • Post published:July 17, 2022
  • Post category:Anxiety/Coping Skills/Meditation/Sensory/Stress
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Autogenic training is a deep and powerful relaxation technique that can help you attain a calm regulated state by using repeated self-commands.

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Read more about the article The Rational Thinker’s Guide to Distorted Thinking
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The Rational Thinker’s Guide to Distorted Thinking

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  • Post published:July 6, 2022
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Cognitive distortions are patterns of distorted thinking that skewer the way we interpret events and cause us to think inaccurately.

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Read more about the article Sensory Overload: What’s Your Threshold of Tolerance?
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Sensory Overload: What’s Your Threshold of Tolerance?

  • Post author:Urim Recovery
  • Post published:June 29, 2022
  • Post category:Anxiety/Coping Skills/Sensory/Strategies/Stress
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Sensory overload may show up as fatigue, irritability or shutting down. This can impact our sleep routines and create additional problems.

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Read more about the article Maintaining Hope in Turbulent Times
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Maintaining Hope in Turbulent Times

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  • Post published:June 24, 2022
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Staying grounded helps us maintain hope in turbulent times. Maintaining empathy, perspective, staying grounded or mobilizing creates hope.

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Read more about the article In Defense of our Defense Mechanisms
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In Defense of our Defense Mechanisms

  • Post author:Urim Recovery
  • Post published:June 3, 2022
  • Post category:Attachment/Coping Skills/Neurobiology/Neuroception/Polyvagal Theory/Self-Compassion/Stress
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The journey to self-compassion lies in developing greater tolerance of the body’s defense mechanisms that show up as defensiveness.

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Read more about the article Destigmatizing Mental Health Services

Destigmatizing Mental Health Services

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  • Post published:April 12, 2021
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So much has been said in 2020 about destigmatizing or decolonizing mental health services, but what do we really mean? It's an opportunity to step back and consider how as providers we send subtle and not so subtle messages regarding normalcy.

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Read more about the article Slowing Down in a World Obsessed with Productivity

Slowing Down in a World Obsessed with Productivity

  • Post author:Urim Recovery
  • Post published:June 11, 2020
  • Post category:Anxiety/Coping Skills/Covid-19/Mindfulness/Stress
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Slowing down increases out ability to be empathetic and reserves our energy for what matters in life.

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