by Brad Coreno | Oct 5, 2020 | Habits, Personal Development, Productivity
We all practice them every day. Whether it’s waking up at a specific time, watering the garden in the afternoon, or chain-smoking cigarettes after a night of drinking, habits run every aspect of our lives. The frightening thing about habits is that once they are...
by Brad Coreno | Sep 28, 2020 | Anxiety, Habits, Personal Development
I was just a little boy, maybe eight years old at the time. After hopping on the school bus, excited to get back home, two classmates sat in the seat in front of me. After a few moments, they both turned around and started poking fun at me. Almost three decades later,...
by Brad Coreno | Sep 20, 2020 | Habits
Forming healthy habits is the key ingredient to living a less anxious life. Many years ago, I began to heal myself from anxiety, depression, and childhood trauma. I never could imagine the path it would lead me down. By the time I hit the age of thirty, I had...
by Brad Coreno | Sep 11, 2020 | Anxiety, Habits
Implementing the 90-second rule helps me calm my anxiety when I get caught up in highly charged emotional situations, especially emotional triggers. When I was younger, I would often let a small, seemingly insignificant comment or event ruin entire days because I...
by Brad Coreno | Sep 1, 2020 | Anxiety, Habits, Productivity
Everyone, at some point in their adult lives, faces work-related stress. When I surveyed my audience, asking their most significant stressors and causes of anxiety, their work was one of the top answers. There have been times in my professional career when I thought...
by Brad Coreno | Aug 24, 2020 | Anxiety
Genetics and anxiety are two words that I’ve become accustomed to hearing throughout most of my adult life. I have had my fair share of struggles with stress, anxiety, obsessive thinking, and compulsive worry throughout most of my life. I could (and likely...
by Brad Coreno | Aug 17, 2020 | Anxiety, Meditation & Mindfulness
You may be familiar with the term dopamine, as it is often used along with serotonin to describe the so-called “feel-good chemicals” in our brains. Learning how to boost dopamine levels when they’re low can help alleviate anxiety. Let’s start with the...
by Brad Coreno | Aug 8, 2020 | Anxiety, Habits, Personal Development, Productivity
I was fifteen years old at the time and habits were the last thing on my mind. My mom and I were having dinner, and I began to spill out my emotions to her. I was having a difficult time playing for my high school basketball team. The experience was giving me a...
by Brad Coreno | Jul 26, 2020 | Anxiety, Meditation & Mindfulness, Personal Development
I want you to envision driving in your car to work one morning. You receive a phone call from your spouse. You begin to argue, and the discussion quickly turns heated and confrontational. After ten minutes of posturing back and forth, you hang up in frustration,...
by Brad Coreno | Jul 11, 2020 | Anxiety, Personal Development
Anxiety-reducing morning activities have changed my life. If you have read Upplifter for any amount of time, you’ll notice that I am big on morning routines. What do I mean by a morning routine, specifically as it relates to anxiety? A routine is a regular...
