A Deeper Wellness

Habit Formation

Breaking Bad: How to Break Up With Your Bad Habits

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on April 23, 2024

While goals and dreams shape our futures, our habits—good or bad, healthy or harmful—profoundly impact the quality of our lives.

Burnout

Breaking Bad: When Overworking Becomes Problematic

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on March 13, 2024

Here's how overworking negatively impacts your life and how to break free of this "respectable" bad habit.

Alcoholism

Breaking Bad: Problematic Alcohol Consumption

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on February 22, 2024

The consequences of alcohol consumption, how to examine your patterns, and how to start to curb them.

Habit Formation

Breaking Bad: Time to Get Smart About Smartphone Usage

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on February 7, 2024

Take charge of your unhealthy smartphone use.

Loneliness

Breaking Bad: How to Break Up with the Habit of Isolation

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on January 24, 2024

Why it is important to stop isolating and start reconnecting with the people in your life who matter.

Sleep

Breaking Bad: Revenge Bedtime Procrastination

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on January 11, 2024

If you’re tired of being tired, you owe it to yourself to break the problematic behaviors, choices, and routines of revenge bedtime procrastination.

Gratitude

Understanding and Practicing Gratitude

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on December 28, 2023

The remarkable findings of gratitude research and how you can benefit from integrating gratitude into your daily life.

People-Pleasing

Breaking Bad: People Pleasing

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on December 12, 2023

How chronic people-pleasing could be negatively impacting your life and what to do about it.

Cannabis

Breaking Bad: Habitual Cannabis Usage

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on November 27, 2023

A look at the impact of legalization on cannabis usage in North American jurisdictions and how we can recognize and take control of problematic habitual cannabis usage.

Procrastination

Breaking Bad: Procrastination

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on November 13, 2023

How procrastination negatively impacts our lives and how we can break this unhealthy habit.

Self-Talk

How to Become a More Positive Thinker

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on October 10, 2023

Try this step-by-step process for cleaning up your negative thoughts.

Bias

Why Our Negative Thoughts Are So Powerful

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on September 25, 2023

How and why negative thoughts hold us back, and what we can do about them.

Self-Talk

Where Our Negative Thoughts Come From

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on September 11, 2023

How to clean up our negative thoughts and self-limiting beliefs.

Toxic Positivity

Positive or Negative, Our Thoughts Shape Our Lives

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on August 22, 2023

Our thoughts lead to our perceptions, behaviors, actions, interactions, and choices.

Social Networking

How Your Social Media Habits Are Damaging Your Relationships

Monica Vermani C. Psych. on August 9, 2023

When, where, how, and with whom you are engaging online could be causing hurt, harm, and disconnection in your relationships with others and with yourself. Here's what to do.