Health and Wellness Archives - No Pain All Gain

Managing Grief

Managing grief can be one of the greatest challenges we have to go through as humans. No one wants to say goodbye to those we love most. Whether your relationship was in good standing or not when your loved ones die, learning to live without them requires time, and a shift in our mindset before we can be ok again. The length of this process lies in the tools we have to deal with it, and how willing we are to use them. Here are some ways to process our grief, whether it be from death, physical separation, or unexpected life changes.

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What Is Success?

What is success to you? Most of us strive to be considered successful by our family and peers. But, what is success? If you interviewed 10 people on the street what success meant to them, you would most likely end up with some very different answers depending on what street you were on. You will probably find that what you think is successful, is not what someone else thinks it is. More importantly, if you don’t know what success means to you, how will you know if you’re successful? Let’s discuss what success really means, and how you can find out what success truly means for you and how to get there.

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Your Holiday Vision

Your Holiday Vision has everything to do with how you will experience the holidays. Deciding with your family what’s important for the holidays can make all the difference between a mediocre holiday and a joy filled season.

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Beating Binge Eating

Beating binge eating during the holiday’s or on a daily basis can be a challenge for most people. Discovering why you binge eat, can go a long way to preventing you from continuing to do it. Here is why we tend to binge eat, and how we can stop it all together.

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Having Community

Having Community to support you is essential to living a healthy happy life! Especially when you are living with chronic illness, you need people around you who you can trust. Often, once the illness has really set in, our instinct is to shut ourselves away. Here is why it’s so important for you to continue to reach out to your friend groups, or find new groups you can join!

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The Power Of Prayer

The power of prayer is stronger than you could ever imagine. If you are not using it in your life, now is the perfect time to start!

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Your Mindset And Fibromyalgia

Your mindset and Fibromyalgia are more linked than you may think. They are intricately interwoven together, so managing your Fibromyalgia requires a positive mindset. It is widely accepted that a negative mindset will lead to depression, so if you want to beat the odds, developing a positive mindset is crucial. Here is why a positive mindset is so important to…

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Saying No!

Saying no is something that comes very easily when we are toddlers, but gets harder as we grow up. It’s this inability to say no, that leads to us over scheduling and overdoing things in order to impress others and get ahead. This also leads to not taking care of ourselves, and leads to chronic illness and sometimes even Fibromyalgia. Here is why it’s so important to learn to say no again, and be ok with it.

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What’s The Point?

Ever woken up wondering “what’s the point?” This happened to me today, and here is why journaling was so important to turn the day around.

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Leaping Outside Your Comfort Zone

Leaping out of your comfort zone is not always an easy thing to do, but it’s how we learn and grow. By going beyond our comfort zones, we discover who we truly are and what we can accomplish in this world. The last few years have really forced me to step out of my comfort zone, and experience the exhilarating feeling of proving what I can do! Here are a few of the things I’ve done in the past few years, and how it has transformed my life!

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