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30-Day Mental Health Challenge | Iowa & Arkansas Center for High Functioning Anxiety | Hayden Finch, PhD

30-Day Mental Health Challenge: Part IV

Anxiety, Burnout, Depression, Imposter Syndrome, Panic Attacks, Purpose & Meaning, Self-Criticism & Perfectionism, Self-Esteem, Stress /

It’s the last part of your 30-day mental health challenge!! This mental health challenge is designed to help you – Move from thinking about changing to actually changing – Practice the skills you’ve picked up from all your research – Discover new strategies for managing your mental health – Establish a habit of focusing on your mental health on a regular basis This week includes challenges related to soothing your mind, managing stress, overcoming procrastination, and more! Dive in here!

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30-Day Mental Health Challenge | Iowa & Arkansas Center for High Functioning Anxiety | Hayden Finch, PhD

30-Day Mental Health Challenge: Part III

Anxiety, Burnout, Depression, Imposter Syndrome, Panic Attacks, Self-Criticism & Perfectionism, Self-Esteem, Stress /

It’s week 3 of your 30-day mental health challenge! This challenge is designed to help you – Move from thinking about changing to actually changing – Practice the skills you’ve picked up from all your research – Discover new strategies for managing your mental health – Establish a habit of focusing on your mental health on a regular basis This week, dive into challenges to target worrying, self-talk, stress, burnout, and more! Dive in!

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30-Day Mental Health Challenge | Iowa & Arkansas Center for High Functioning Anxiety | Hayden Finch, PhD

30-Day Mental Health Challenge: Part II

Anxiety, Burnout, Depression, Imposter Syndrome, Panic Attacks, Purpose & Meaning, Self-Criticism & Perfectionism, Self-Esteem, Stress /

Last week, you launched into a 30-day mental health challenge. This mental health challenge is designed to help you – Put all the strategies you’ve been researching into practice – Make actual changes in your mental health – Discover new strategies for managing your mental health – Establish a habit of focusing on your mental health on a regular basis If you’re ready for Part II of the 30-day challenge, dive in here!

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30-Day Mental Health Challenge | Iowa & Arkansas Center for High Functioning Anxiety | Hayden Finch, PhD

30-Day Mental Health Challenge

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For the next 30 days, join me in trying one new technique or coping skill each day.  By the end of the month, you’ll have experimented with a variety of new strategies to master your mental health, and you’ll have an idea of what works for you, where you need more practice, and what just isn’t a good fit for you.  In this week’s article, discover: What to keep in mind as you start this 30-day challenge – How to make the challenge a success for you – What to do for each of the next 7 days – All the resources and worksheets you need to really dive deep into each day’s strategy Dive in here!

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16 Strategies for Practicing Positive Self-Talk to Boost Self-Esteem and Build Confidence | Iowa & Arkansas Center for High Functioning Anxiety | Hayden Finch, PhD

16 Strategies for Practicing Positive Self-Talk to Boost Self-Esteem and Build Confidence

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Last week, we discussed why it’s so hard to relax and discovered that difficulty relaxing can be related to problems with self-esteem and confidence. As soon as you slow down, you’re bombarded with self-critical thoughts. One of the greatest weapons against those thoughts is positive self-talk, so today let’s develop some strategies to practice positive self-talk. In this week’s article, discover: – Why positive self-talk is so hard – 16 evidence-based strategies to practice positive self-talk – Examples & resources for practice – What to keep in mind as you start practicing positive self-talk Dive in here!

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10 Strategies to Stop Self-Sabotaging | Iowa & Arkansas Center for High Functioning Anxiety | Hayden Finch, PhD

Sick of Getting In Your Own Way? 10 Strategies to Stop Self-Sabotaging

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In this week’s article, discover: – How to figure out what behaviors you’re using to sabotage yourself – How to replace those behaviors with healthier alternatives – 10 strategies to stop self-sabotage – Tons and tons of resources for putting those strategies into practice

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Toxic Self-Criticism: How to Silence Your Inner Critic | Iowa & Arkansas Center for High Functioning Anxiety | Hayden Finch, PhD

Toxic Self-Criticism: How to Silence Your Inner Critic

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Recently, we’ve been diving deep into natural strategies to manage your anxiety — I brought you 3 mindfulness exercises to change your relationship to your anxiety and gave you all the details on weighted blankets for anxiety. Today, it’s time to address that inner critic. In this week’s article, discover – 6 proven strategies to silence your inner critic – Examples of how to use each strategy – A workbook with even more strategies and a step-by-step process to silence your inner critic

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How to Start Believing In Yourself

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Do you ever have the experience where you know objectively you’re pretty good at something, but you still don’t feel confident? Maybe it’s related to imposter syndrome or another type of anxiety or maybe to depression. This post is a reboot of an article I wrote two years ago with new resources and tips. In this week’s article, I’ll share with you 5 proven strategies to start believing in yourself Explanations for why these strategies work *Free* worksheets and workbooks to put those strategies into practice

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5 Strategies to Build Self-Confidence| Hayden Finch, PhD | Psychologist/Therapist | | Des Moines, Iowa | Little Rock, Arkansas

5 Strategies to Build Self-Confidence

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What does it feel like to be confident?  A lot of people have no idea…they’ve never experienced self-confidence, and the idea of being confident is nearly unimaginable.  When you struggle to trust your abilities or your judgment, it’s easy for anxiety and depression to creep in.  But having a healthy dose of self-confidence can help you develop skills for handling stress, setbacks, and even failure.  So in this week’s article, I’m bringing you 5 strategies to begin building self-confidence.  

 

In this week’s article, I’ll share with you 

  • 5 proven strategies to build self-confidence
  • Evidence-based techniques to make real changes in how you feel about yourself
  • *Free* worksheets to put those strategies into practice

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