Category: Stress Management
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Don’t Let the Pessimists Dim Your Light: Protecting Your Optimism in the New Year
Don’t Let the Pessimists Dim Your Light: Protecting Your Optimism in the New Year
The start of a new year often brings reflection, hope, and vulnerability. In this reflective post, Leslie Tourish, LPC, explores how chronic pessimism—our own or others’—can quietly drain our emotional energy and optimism. Through storytelling and practical insight, she offers ways to protect positivity, set emotional boundaries, and cultivate optimism as a meaningful practice. This…
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10 Effective Stress-Management Strategies
10 Effective Stress-Management Strategies
Stress: Why do we have it? Stress is the taproot of our survival system. Without it we wouldn’t have the motivation to get out of bed, nor the sense of preservation to look both ways when crossing the street. Therefore, stress in and of itself is as natural and part of the landscape as a…
Leslie Tourish LPC 