Quitting your addictions can be the most challenging yet rewarding choice for your health. This decision doesn’t come easy, but it can bring a lot of health benefits – physical health and mental health, mind you. The addiction I’m talking about today is smoking. Living a smoke-free or nicotine-free life cannot be easy. In between constant cravings and dodging them, it can be quite difficult to quit smoking. Also Read: When Is The Best Time To Quit Smoking But, what calmsage

Are you a therapist, counselor, or social worker looking to help clients boost self-confidence and self-esteem? Or a parent, school teacher, coach, or mentor looking for ways to encourage children? You should learn about unconditional positive regard and how it can be implemented to improve self-worth. In this post, we explain it in detail. What Is Unconditional Positive Regard? Unconditional positive regard (UPR), known as “client-centered therapy,” emphasizes the healing power of human connection. The term explains respecting an individual calmsage

It was a different age when people started dating someone and got married to them another year! According to couples who dated a decade back, a few months or a year is quite a great time to understand each other. But, if you look at today’s dating format, it is quite overwhelming because in order to find the “one,” we may have to navigate through the different stages of a relationship.  Modern dating and relationship problems can have direct impacts calmsage

If I ask you to describe empathy in a short sentence, what would be your response…empathy is keeping yourself in someone else’s shoes… right? Empathy in reality looks like, consoling a friend after a break-up or providing a shoulder to a loved one to cry on during their tough times. Empathetic people are able to understand others’ emotions. But, have you ever thought about what hyper-empathy looks like? Hyper-empathy is different from empathy as the person struggling with hyper-empathy is calmsage

“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?” — Michael Jackson Not to sound cheesy, but I believe that music is the universal language of love and culture. Wherever you are or whoever you are, I’m sure, music has played a big part in your growing up. At least, it was a part of my life growing up. I remember my dad singing songs calmsage

Aging is a natural part of growing up, and as we age, certain cognitive functions and physical abilities become restricted. Our ability to focus and concentrate, retain information, and recall memories is one of these functions affected by age. The term we can use to describe our mental sharpness is mental acuity. As we age, our mental acuity decreases. Having a high mental acuity is important for performing day-to-day tasks. Losing mental sharpness can impact our well-being. In this time, calmsage