Articles tagged with Self-help
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The Top Five Love Books
Valentine’s Day is coming up; the day in the calendar marked out to celebrate love and affection. But whether you’re in a relationship or not, it’s important to celebrate our love for ourselves as well. Aren’t we deserving of a thorough self-examination to find out what we excel in, what our strengths are and how [...]
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Here’s To the End of Overeating: Changing Yourself
Making changes to your behaviour, attitudes, beliefs, patterns of living, mood states, personality, thinking, perception of yourself and perceptions of others all require you to go through a process. Changing yourself starts with the realisation that making a change is important. What could prompt you to think of making that needed change; the one that you [...]
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Slim And Happy
What do we mean by slim? What do we mean by happy? We say these diet words and terms and use them as if they are the same thing. But do we really understand what the concept of happy is? Or what slim actually means and feels like ? What does slim have to do with [...]
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Book Review: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Your Route Out of Perfectionism, Self-Sabotage And Other Everyday Habits
I first came across the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Your Route Out of Perfectionism, Self-sabotage and Other Everyday Habits last year and I thought it was a brilliant read. I am more into NLP than CBT having had a very poor CBT based therapy back in 2005 that I found very hard to work with but [...]
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You See What You Want To See
When passing a mirror, or a shop window, when you see yourself what are you looking for? Whether you are a healthy weight or overweight are you looking for the good stuff or are you looking to pick faults with yourself? Most people who are overweight tend to look for what is wrong with [...]
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What Influences You to Gain Weight and to Lose Weight?
Losing weight deeply involves the psychological side of things, without a doubt. But this doesn’t mean that the environment is left out of the equation when it comes to the success or failure of reaching your weight-loss goal—far from it. Let’s say you are on a diet, trying hard to stick to it. First, [...]
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Being All Too Agreeable Won't Get the Weight Down
Have you been a “Yes Girl” about your weight? Like, for instance, YES I will go off my diet because I feel like it YES eating everything in sight is just what I do YES I am doomed to be a failure at losing this weight YES I will gain the weight back every time I manage to [...]
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Letter To Yourself
Please don't read this exercise below and think it sounds good but then don't do it. I promise you this is so useful and really can help you but does need about half an hour's effort to do it. I hope you do give it a go and let me know how you get on, [...]
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Be Unique, Just Like Everybody Else
I was up at 4:45am this morning and drove a 60 mile round trip to queue up for 3 hours to get a new iPhone 4. As I stood in the queue at number 58 of, I would guesstimate, about 500 people, my phone went off. It was a friend of mine asking me what I [...]
