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3 Ways to Find Meaning and Purpose in Your Life
Hope, Personal Growth Dr. Victoria Ranade Hope, Personal Growth Dr. Victoria Ranade

3 Ways to Find Meaning and Purpose in Your Life

Some days, it can be hard to feel a sense of purpose in our lives.

We go through our days on autopilot. Everything feels as if it is a box to be checked. We have the job we want. The cars and the house. And yet somewhere inside, we wonder, what is this all leading to? What is the point of any of this? Where is the meaning in life?

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 24 Resources for Children and Teens with Anxiety and Their Families
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24 Resources for Children and Teens with Anxiety and Their Families

We all experience anxiety, but sometimes it can become overwhelming and begin to interfere with your child’s daily functioning and quality of life. For example. some anxiety is healthy and natural when we are taking tests as it can help enhance performance. However, when anxiety becomes overwhelming, it can disrupt performance for children. Sometimes when anxious, children may begin to avoid certain triggering situations and events, such as peers, teachers, or school itself. The avoidance then serves to maintain the anxiety and to worsen it over time. As a parent, how can you help your child break free of anxiety, out of their mind and into their life?

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12 Quotes That Describe What It's Like to Live with Bipolar Disorder
Quotes, Bipolar, Manic Depression Dr. Victoria Ranade Quotes, Bipolar, Manic Depression Dr. Victoria Ranade

12 Quotes That Describe What It's Like to Live with Bipolar Disorder

It can be tough to live with bipolar disorder, which makes one prone to moods so incredibly varied, nuanced, and intense that most humans do not experience. Moods can be exhilarating and intoxicating, and yet also darkly devastating — sometimes all at once. This is why bipolar is somewhat of a misleading term — it implies that a person experiences two extremes of emotion, when the reality is that moods occur in different subtleties in their nature.

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