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5 Ways to Cultivate Your Purpose & Build Meaning into Your Everyday Life

By Activities, Goal Setting, Mental Health, Mind, Physical Health

Ever think about your purpose? Wonder how it helps your life? Why it matters? Builds energy? Helps you be more healthy? Having a life purpose can lower stress, enhance well-being, and increase cognition1,2. Lately, we have been hearing a lot about purpose in the psychology world. It has become a buzz word because it is so important to living our best lives.

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3 Ways to Give Your Body-Mind The Exercise it Needs

By Activities, Body, Mental Health, Mind, Physical Health, Somatic Psychology

Hello, I am Dr Stacy Reuille-Dupont. I was an exercise scientist who turned into a clinical psychologist when I realized being healthy was about more than working out. Now I study how your body is changed by thought and emotion and how thought and emotion impact our physical systems. Here are some of the ways mental and physical health impact each other and 3 ways you can use exercise to optimize your health.

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In this Season of Darkness … Find the Light Inside. Restore.

By Cultivating Calm, Mental Health, Mind, Physical Health

For centuries this time of year (in the North) was a reminder – maybe forced – to return to self and look internal. Days were shorter, darker, colder. Harvests were done, gardens resting, and fires needed to tending to keep us warm and comfortable. Just because we have more comforts doesn’t mean we should ignore natures very clear lead.

It is time to rest and restore. Nature is very clear when she tells us to rest. Here’s how.

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