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Jan 17

Internal Locus and Why You Need One

By Beth_Murray Mental Health

🧭 Internal Locus of Control — and Why You Need One Locus of control can be understood as the centre hub of a bicycle wheel. When you have an external locus of control, the people, forces, and situations around you flow inward and dictate who you are. You look outward…

Dec 17

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Why We All Need Hope

By Beth_Murray Mental Health

🌅 Why We All Need Hope Hope is an essential part of human life. It allows us to face uncertainty, endure hardship, and move forward when circumstances feel overwhelming or unclear. More than simple optimism, hope is a powerful inner resource that helps us imagine possibilities beyond present distress. At…

Oct 28

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What’s Your Relationship Like With Yourself?

By Beth_Murray Mental Health

🌱 Learning Self-Compassion and Emotional Wellness Think about the most important relationships in your life — your partner, your family, your friends. When those relationships are going well, how do you show up for those people? You likely make time for them, speak with kindness, and treat them with care…

Dec 17

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Broken Dreams

By Beth_Murray Grief, Mental Health, Relationships

As we head into the holiday season, this Christmas time can be challenging for some. Life is filled with broken dreams. Things don't always turn out the way we pictured they would. If they have, that's wonderful! When it hasn't, we can really struggle. Whether it's grief, the breakdown of…

Oct 01

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You Are Valuable and Lovable. No more shame.

By Beth_Murray Mental Health

Each person is valuable here and now, just as they are. Period. We often struggle with feeling valuable or lovable based on things from the past. Mistakes and bad choices, harm done to us, and other aspects of life can leave us living in shame. Shame is not meant to…

Aug 18

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Why Relationships Matter

By Beth_Murray Mental Health, Relationships

Life gotten too busy? No time or energy to connect with friends and family? This society makes it easy to become disconnected and isolated. The demands of work, family, finances, and more can drain our tanks pretty quickly. Social media doesn't help as it lulls us into scrolling through unrealistic…

May 26

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Keeping Joy in Your Life

By Beth_Murray Mental Health

Feelings come and go like waves. They are emotional responses to what we are thinking about, believing and experiencing. Emotions are neither right or wrong. For example, there is no right way to feel in any given situation. Some emotions are painful and some are pleasant. When I worked inpatient…

Feb 06

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Dealing With the Unknowns

By Beth_Murray Mental Health

As humans we don't like unknowns! In fact, some of us hate them and really struggle if things are unknown. Yet life has so many unknown components. When we get new information, our brains want to figure things out. If we have very black and white thinking, it's even worse…

Jul 11

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How to be Hopeful

By Beth_Murray Mental Health

First, let's differentiate between hope and optimism. “Hope focuses more directly on the personal attainment of specific goals, whereas optimism focuses more broadly on the expected quality of future outcomes in general.” In other words, optimism is the belief that things will turn out all right; hope makes no such…

Apr 04

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You Can Do Hard Things!

By Beth_Murray Mental Health

Have you been dealt some unfair blows lately? Has your life been impacted by grief and loss? Has trauma blown your life apart? If you answered 'yes' to one or more of these questions you have been through hard things. This also verifies that you CAN do hard things. It's…

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