Topic Archive
Wellbeing
Emotions
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Why You Need to Make Time for Play
You might be surprised about the benefits of play for your wellbeing and your spiritual health. Here's how to get more in your life.
Mindfulness
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Screen Time: How Much Do We Pay for Our Screen Time Subscriptions?
What are the real costs of our screen time? How can you become more mindful for yourself and your children? Writer, Amy Dunn, explores this question and more in this series.
Mindfulness
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Screen Time: Here’s What Happened When I Took my Kids’ Screens
Writer Amy Dunn tells us that taking screens away marked her. "I watched my kids immediately become completely lost in their own imaginations for not just minutes, but hours and hours."
Emotions
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A Practice: Shift Your Inner Critic to an Inner Nurturer
Here's how to shift your inner critic to the inner nurturer by teaching your body that you can also find strength in being tender with yourself.
Agility
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An Integrated Life: Balancing Rigidity and Chaos
Thrive blogger, Amy Dunn, reflects on the concept of integration and how humans navigate the river of life, avoiding the rocky shores or rigidity and chaos.
Mindfulness
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A Practice: Reflecting on Love and Goodness Towards Others
This practice helps build compassion for the struggles of others by shifting our perspective and imagining how we can offer love.
Wellbeing
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Well-Being: Four Essential Pillars Backed by Science
Research has identified four aspects of the mind that exhibit plasticity, and it turns out that we can practice to make our minds healthier.
Practices
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A Radical Idea: Becoming Skilled in Our Own Well-being
Wellbeing is something we can actively cultivate through practice, or through a practice of "mental hygiene."
Wellbeing
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Rhythms of Work and Rest: Leadership and Self-Care After Trauma and Burnout with Dr. Alexis Abernethy
Therapist and research psychologist Dr. Alexis Abernethy brings together worlds of spirituality, leadership, and socially informed community development. She has found that communal healing from trauma comes through deep, empathic, emotional awareness. She approaches burnout from a psychologically informed perspective on the Christian practices of Sabbath and worship and offers insightful resources to find rest and care for yourself on the way to an integrated life of spiritual health and thriving.
Joy
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We Really Can’t Do it All: Destigmatizing Human Limitations to Reclaim Joy
Reclaim joy through examining the rhythms of your life. A series of questions will help you explore.
Practices
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Burnout Culture: Is it Possible to Rest and Achieve?
How do we address the problem of burnout in our modern society?
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