Setting Goals and Intentions

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Happy New Year! As we are starting our journey into 2024, we not only begin to reflect on our unproductive actions, but we also consider the actions we took that led to great results, which we want to continue.  A recent survey of 2,000 individuals conducted by OnePoll, an international marketing research agency, found that […]

A Story of Self-Stigma, Shame, and a New Direction with Self-Compassion

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What is stigma? Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary defines stigma as “a mark of shame or discredit: STAIN.” WISE addresses 3 types of stigma: social stigma, structural stigma, and self-stigma. Do you ever have this feeling? If you only knew this “bad thing” about me (whatever that might be), you wouldn’t This is shame in action. And […]