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2019 Wellbeing EDITORSPICK

5 Simple Ways To Declutter Your Life In The New Year

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January 11, 2019 at 11:00PM Why stop with your home? Continue Reading… Author Vanessa Loder | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue Imagine if a hoarder invited you to dinner, and the kitchen was the nexus of their hoarding empire. You cringe while watching them attempt to cook among the chaos. It’s so cluttered, they’re forced to move random objects off the stovetop burners and even out of the kitchen sink, including a fake fish tank, holiday lights that never got strung, and a beaded frog. It’s painful to watch. This is exactly how I feel watching my kids attempt to play in their toy kitchen, which has become a de-facto storage area. The visual clutter drains me every time I look at it. It’s crammed. Crowded. Constricted. Cluttered. Chock-full of stuff they don’t need. On random occasions, when I’m feeling motivated, I’ll whirl in like a cleanup hurricane, only to discover I’m battling it out with a never-ending anti-tidy tornado. As soon as I turn my back, chaos reigns once again. This space has taught me an important lesson about decluttering: All of our spaces are connected. When you declutter one area, it affects you physically, mentally emotionally, and even spiritually. Here are five simple strategies and habits to help you declutter way more than your home in the new year: 1. Start a dialogue with your surroundings. This fun and useful exercise comes from self-help guru Martha Beck. She suggests we each have an area in our

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2019 Wellbeing

Couples Who Do THIS Are Better At Supporting Each Other

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January 11, 2019 at 10:00PM Here’s how to ask for help and receive the support you need. Continue Reading… Author Tiffany Lashai Curtis | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue It’s not always easy to communicate your feelings when in a romantic partnership. As a result, many people can sometimes resort to passive behaviors in their attempts to feel seen and heard by their partner—things like sulking, whining, or just generally behaving in a sad way to indicate they need support. However, new research findings suggest this indirect way of seeking support is not just ineffective—it might actually draw the opposite response from their partner. In a recently released study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers surveyed 176 couples to measure their levels of self-esteem, feelings of insecurity related to their relationship, and their sense of closeness and intimacy with their partners. Participants were then asked to note one thing about themselves they’d like to improve, and one member of each couple was instructed to share their self-improvement goal with their partner while being videotaped. Researchers went through these taped discussions, analyzing to what extent the person sharing their goal used indirect support-seeking behaviors and what kind of response these behaviors got from their partner. As it turns out, people who used more indirect support-seeking strategies tended to elicit much more negative responses from their partners—things like criticism, disapproval, or blame. So basically the exact opposite behavior you want when you’re asking for help. Additionally, the researchers

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