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Between school, work, social media pressure, and adulting, stress and anxiety are at all-time highs in modern life. But what if you could calm your mind and emotions, just your fingertips? Take a look at EFT tapping, a healing technique that’s been making waves across TikTok and wellness circles.

This technique focuses on tapping the meridian points of the body to relieve negative experience or emotion. It’s easy, effective, and totally DIY. 

So let’s dive into what is EFT tapping really like, how it works, and why it’s become a go-to method for managing stress.

What Is EFT Tapping?

EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), also called tapping, is a holistic

Toxic positivity isn’t just annoying—it’s exhausting. When you’re constantly forcing a smile, ignoring real emotions, or brushing off pain with “good vibes only,” you’re deep in the signs of toxic positivity.

It’s time we start rejecting toxic positivity and make space for honesty over forced positivity.

KEY POINTS

When positivity is forced, it can dismiss valid emotions.

Feeling sad, angry, or frustrated is part of being human.

Instead of saying “Look on the bright side,” ask, “How can I support you right now?”

When people say “trauma changed me”, believe them. A traumatized person’s brain can’t function like an average one and when this trauma injury happens during childhood, it just messes up your brain wirings. So, how does childhood trauma affect the brain in the long term?

A Trauma is a deeply disturbing and unsettling experience that negatively affects our functioning. It overwhelms our nervous system and interferes with our ability to cope, leaving long-lasting psychological, emotional, and neurological imprints.

A trauma can be a one time incident like an accident or a loss of a loved one, BUT, it can also be a prolonged exposure to adverse experiences like abuse, neglect, abandonment, betrayal, or chronic stress.

Our unhappy childhood catches up with us pretty fast. But sadly, we wake up to the signs of childhood trauma, much later. Is it too late to be happy? Read on to know the truth!

Childhood experiences build the foundation of an individual’s mental, emotional, and behavioral structure.

During our formative years, when our brain is still learning to process concepts like trust, care, dependency, love, etc., the information that gets fed into it becomes the basis on which our brain develops our personality; our personal programming, if you will.

This programming dictates everything; our belief system, tendencies, quirks, thought process, behavior, reactions, and most importantly, attachment styles – how we develop relationships with others, as adults.

Now,

Maladaptive perfectionism is like running on a treadmill that never stops—no matter how hard you try, it never feels good enough. While aiming high can be a great motivator, obsessing over perfection can drain your energy, spike your stress, and leave you feeling stuck.

So, how do you know if your perfectionist tendencies are helping or hurting you? Let’s break it down.

Cowritten by Eser Yilmaz & Tchiki Davis.

Perfectionism is a personality trait associated with striving to be flawless and often involves being critical of imperfections (Flett & Hewitt, 2002).

Although perfectionism can be a healthy motivator in moderation, excessive perfectionism may cause stress and diminish the chances of succes

Did you get good sleep as a child? If so, it might be shaping your mental health today. Let’s learn how high quality sleep is the key to well-being.

Longer, higher quality, and more regular sleep leads to better mental health.

Key points

Regular, high quality sleep is important for children’s health and well-being.

Better sleep has been related to better outcomes including school performance and fewer behavior problems.

Longitudinal studies to determine lasting effects of childhood sleep are rare.

This study shows that bette

Ever heard someone say, “Go touch some grass”? It’s an internet slang often thrown around as an insult, telling people to log off and reconnect with reality. But behind the sarcasm, there’s actual wisdom in those words. So, let us explore the real benefits of touching grass.

We spend hours glued to screens, scrolling or doom scrolling through social media, binge-watching shows, or getting lost in heated online debates. Spending too much time online can leave you feeling disconnected, drained, and overwhelmed.

The constant flood of