Freshly showered after a long day at the beach, you plop down on your bed with your sun kissed skin against your cool, cotton sheets. After hours of soaking up the sun and enjoying funnel cake and ice cream with your friends, you pick up your phone to check what you’ve missed on Instagram. […]
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College is known as the best four years of your life. No one really prepares you for how much stress and anxiety college can cause you as well. Moving away from home, living with strangers, getting a part-time job or an internship, and balancing classes on top of that. No wonder mental health has become
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taking a walk around campus when i have anxiety
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As busy college students, we often partake in food on the go amongst other wasteful habits just to make our crazy lives easier. It’s understandable that with our work filled anxious lives that we take the easy way out from time to time- but it’s important to realize the impact we are making and the
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Have you ever felt stressed, anxious, tired, or depressed? Or maybe you are feeling some of those things right now. Finding time to practice some form of yoga can be one of the most beneficial things you do for your health! Listed below you can find just some of the health benefits experienced by college
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When Times Get Tough, I Get Out (for a bit) Is anyone else counting the last days of the semester? 25 lesson plans, 2 papers, 2 group projects, and 4 finals according to my syllabi. That’s all that stands between me and graduation. While we are in the home stretch, relaxation still seems far from
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We’ve all been there. It’s 11:30 on a Tuesday and you are on your third Starbucks iced latte. The assignment that you definitely should have started two weeks ago looms before you. Also before you: a blank word document with nothing except an APA header. College stress has arrived and reared its ugly head. In
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Feeling stressed? Here are tips to ease your stress BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Your eyes fly open like a pull down shades on a window. Your hand smacks and knocks your phone off the nightstand. This is where the stress of our lives usual starts, at the beginning of the day. When we rise in
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