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How to Tame Your ADHD Emotions

May 27, 2019 by Ruxandra LeMay Leave a Comment

Welcome to our Monday series for Turbo ADHD brains (watch the movie, you’ll get the reference, but the short explanation is: slow as a snail when not important to you, and superspeed when you are interested). Coffee is what gets most of us going on a Monday morning, but it’s really the super juice for […]

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What does self-awareness mean to you?

May 22, 2019 by Ruxandra LeMay Leave a Comment

Welcome to our Wednesday series for anxious people who have an oversensitive alarm system, whose “danger scanner” is always on, and who need a little bit of self-care and positive emotional energy by mid-week (when the tanks are starting to approach depletion). Calm nature pictures are a great way to “nurture” our insecure selves and […]

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Feeling Overwhelmed? Blame Your Working Memory

May 6, 2019 by Ruxandra LeMay Leave a Comment

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The Overachiever’s Guide to Managing Anxiety (part 2)

November 9, 2018 by Ruxandra LeMay 2 Comments

Welcome back! In our first post of the series, we looked at the clear connection between anxiety and overachievement. In this post, we are going to identify two ways anxiety actually shows up: your thinking and your physical symptoms. I am not going to go all Grey’s Anatomy and overwhelm you with too much neuropsychology, but […]

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3 Unproductive Behaviors That Stress You Out Daily

November 29, 2017 by Ruxandra LeMay 15 Comments

The older I get, the more I value time and my emotional well-being. There is so much I want to do in life and I hate when I waste my time and my mental energy on unproductive crap. And these three behaviors are monsters in terms of physical and emotional health. And darn it, we […]

Filed Under: Anxiety & Stress Management Tagged With: anxiety, comparison, couples, insecurity, overthinking, productivity, relationships, rumination, stress