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9 Simple Check-Ins to Identify Your Needs
Tuning into our feelings, thoughts, and physical sensations is the foundation of caring well for ourselves. We have to know what’s going on in order to take healthy, nourishing action and just better...
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How to Deeply Connect During Difficult Times
The pandemic has brought up many, many questions that we’ve never had to answer before: Do we see our grandparents? Do we attend the larger gathering? Should we just stay home? For a while? Do we...
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28 Lessons on Body Image, Well-Being, and Life
Ever since I started this blog (back in 2009!), almost every year around my birthday, I’ve been republishing and revising a version of the below post about the lessons I’m learning about building a...
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How to Really Help a Loved One
When our loved ones are struggling with a stressful situation, it’s hard to know what to say or what to do. We don’t want to offend them or make them feel uncomfortable. Or maybe the truth is we don’t...
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The Best Way to Manage Anger in the Moment
Anger is a tough emotion. It feels so urgent and all-consuming. And we feel like we have to act on it. Right. Now. And so, we do. We say something cruel or sarcastic. We yell. We slam doors. We become...
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3 Magic Words to Cultivate Your Connection with Anyone (Including Yourself)
We can bolster our bonds with others simply by the language we use. Just using a 3-word phrase can help you gain a deeper, fuller understanding of another person. It can help you convey that you...
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How to Set Resolutions You’re Actually Excited About
Many of Jenn Hardy’s clients set resolutions they think they’re supposed to set—from resolutions around exercise to resolutions around dieting. Hardy, Ph.D, is a psychologist with a private practice...
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One of the Best Ways to Care for Yourself
One of the best ways we can care for ourselves is to set boundaries—whether it’s with our loved ones; with our colleagues, clients, and supervisors; or even with ourselves. We can think of boundaries...
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Setting Boundaries as a Form of Self-Care
Setting boundaries is one of the best ways we can care for ourselves. According to clinical psychologist Therese Mascardo, PsyD, setting boundaries safeguards us from harm. She likened it to the front...
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How to Reconnect to Yourself
Reconnecting to ourselves doesn’t have to be big. It doesn’t have to include grand gestures or pricey spa days or week-long retreats. It can be small. And it can be totally doable, even if you have a...
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Do You Feel Unworthy in Your Relationships?
“In relationships…I rarely feel worthy of love or worthy of anyone’s attention, and so I feel like I’m always taking up people’s time that is better spent elsewhere, or that I am not entertaining...
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Sparking Confidence and Curiosity in Your Tween Girl
Most of us weren’t very confident as tweens or teens. It’s a tough time. You’re trying to figure out who you are, what you like, what you stand for—amid confusing physical changes, surging hormones,...
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Mining the Past to Sincerely Support Ourselves
Our past contributes to who and how we are today. It shapes us in so many different ways, some obvious, some subtle, some surprising. We are shaped by our early experiences with parents and...
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A Simple Way to Start Living a More Satisfying Life
What does a satisfying, fulfilling life look like to you? What kinds of activities, actions and experiences make up that life? Have you thought about it? One of my favorite podcasts is Best of Both...
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How to Really Disconnect from Your Devices
Here’s a statement that’s become as overused as, “I’m sooo busy”: I check my phone way too much. Also, similarly unoriginal: I check my phone while I’m working, in the morning as soon as I open my...
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Do You Regularly Stay Silent to Avoid Conflict?
How many times have you stayed absolutely silent when someone hurt your feelings, when someone crossed the line? How many times have you ignored a behavior because you didn’t want the discomfort of a...
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Embracing Your Darker Side Using Play
You get jealous easily. You can be cynical and sarcastic, even with the people you love most. You can be petty and narrow-minded. You gossip. You say mean things you don’t mean. Sometimes, the words...
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Signs You’re in a Toxic Relationship–And What You Can Do
A significant part of taking compassionate care of ourselves is one we often overlook: having healthy romantic relationships—relationships built on honesty, respect, trust, safety and kindness....
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A More Meaningful Way to Practice Gratitude
Gratitude can easily get dismissed. After all, it’s everywhere. The articles are especially rampant during the holiday season. And after a while, all those tips and tricks and tools turn to noise....
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Navigating Rude Food and Weight-Related Remarks at Your Holiday Meal
Someone—a family member, friend, colleague, acquaintance or even a stranger—comments on what you’re eating or how you look. Maybe it’s a subtle remark. I’ve heard about such and such diet. You should...
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