New Supportiv Resource Collection Empowers You To Release “Bad” Habits That No Longer Serve You
Supportiv, the pioneer in Conversational Care® and Precision Peer Support®, publishes today a new collection of self-help resources, outlining the “bad” habits that fail to serve one’s mental wellbeing, and providing tools for replacing those habits with more productive ones.
Habits form the basis of wellbeing. Mindfulness habits, relational habits, sleeping habits, coping habits, and self care habits all contribute to how an individual feels on a daily basis. Unfortunately, making changes in these areas can be some of the biggest emotional challenges a person can attempt. This struggle keeps many people stuck in behaviors and situations that work against them.
Bad habits are bad because they feel bad to the individual; because they make one’s life harder; or because they keep a person from being who they want to be.
In order to be broken, “bad” habits must be replaced with more positive ones — and Supportiv’s new resource collection aims to provide alternative options and tactics to swap “bad” behaviors for behaviors that better serve wellbeing.
Supportiv CEO and Co-Founder Helena Plater-Zyberk elaborates on the intention of this new resource collection: “Calling any behavior a ‘bad habit’ deserves clarification. It’s a quick jump to feeling a person’s bad habits make them bad at their core. People tend to judge themselves and others for bad habits; however, these articles and worksheets clearly separate the person from the behavior that could be hurting them.”
Pouria Mojabi, Supportiv Co-Founder, continues the thought: “Bad habits are bad because they feel bad to the individual; because they make one’s life harder; or because they keep a person from being who they want to be. Having these habits shouldn’t merit criticism from others, but might merit some practical, tactical strategy if the affected individual decides to make a change.”
Supportiv’s new resources on Bad Habits (https://www.supportiv.com/badhabits) provide context, validation, and new paths forward out of the behaviors that work against a person’s quest for mental, emotional, and social wellbeing. Topics in the collection include:
Choosing To Change Unhealthy Habits
Unhealthy habits make our lives harder than they need to be–but they’re so hard to quit. How can you choose to make a change?
3 Reasons Why You Should Stop ‘Shoulding’
When you continually focus on what you’re not doing, you’re not just sh*tting on yourself–you’re “shoulding” on yourself. So here are 3 reality checks to shed the bad habit of “shoulding” and improve your mental health.
Toss The Trauma Yardstick: Your Experience Matters
If we know that invalidation, comparison, and holding it all inside can harm us, why do we continue to invalidate ourselves? How can we stop comparing our trauma to others’?
Stop Procrastination Before It Stops You
If we know what we have to do, how come it is so hard to do it? And how can we stop procrastinating before it harms us and those around us?
Why Do I Push People Away? Reasons And How To Stop
Whether it’s romantic or platonic relationships, it happens to the best of us. You want to be close, but constantly keep people at a distance. You may start asking yourself: “Why do I push people away?” Let’s look at some reasons why we may push others away, and how you can work past them.
Coping With Phone Phobia When Ignoring Calls Gets Out Of Hand
For many, ignoring calls comes from phone phobia. This can interfere with one’s ability to socialize and engage in other necessary life tasks. So when ignoring calls feels out of control, or if you struggle with phone phobia, what can you do about it?
Slouching And Poor Posture Harm Your Mental Health, Too
Slouching is both the canary and the coal mine. It can be a sign of mental health issues, and it can also perpetuate them. So how can you be more aware of your poor posture, in order to address and accommodate your mental health?
Peer Pressure: Yes, It’s Easier To Give In, But You Have Options
Peer pressure happens in workplaces, friendships, family dynamics, romantic partnerships, online forums, and pretty much anywhere else you happen to interact with others or consume their thoughts, opinions, and actions. How can you get ahead of the pressure and hold your own?
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Could Be Why You Stay Up Late
If you avoid sleeping at a reasonable time, it could actually be a real phenomenon that plagues busy people: revenge bedtime procrastination. So how can you fight this understandable reaction and stop staying up so late?
How To Get Organized And Stop Being Messy For Better Mental Health
Take action on the common struggle of being messy, with this exploration on how to get organized. Your mental health will thank you.
How To Stop Interrupting People Despite Best Intentions
Despite our best intentions, a lot of us struggle with interrupting others. Interruptions happen for many reasons. Generally, they aren’t a big deal. However, if interruptions are a recurring problem in your life, you might start to feel it’s a bad habit; you might wonder how to stop interrupting people and correct the behavior.
Counter The Emotional Side Of Nicotine Dependence
Nicotine is one of the most addictive chemicals known to humans. But why is it so appealing in the first place, how does nicotine dependence affect mental health, and why might you want to break this habit?
Thinking of Pulling An All Nighter? There’s A Better Way
Losing sleep over work? Thinking an all nighter might be in your cards? Learn why staying up late decreases success in the long run (according to research!) and how to prioritize sleep for your mental health and productivity.
WORKSHEET: Turn People-Pleasing Behaviors Into Self-Protective Ones
Trauma often creates people-pleasing habits, by teaching you that others will hurt you (emotionally or physically) in order to achieve their goals. It can feel safer to avoid this hurt by just giving people what they want in the first place. But, that habit is likely to hurt you. Use this worksheet to replace your people-pleasing behaviors with self-protective ones.
How To Stop Nitpicking Others (And Why It Matters For Your Health)
Nitpicking can have negative effects on both you and the other people in your life. Where does this habit come from, and how can you stop?
How To Stop Holding A Grudge — For Your Own Sake
Of course, it’s not that easy to let go of a grudge. But doing so can benefit you. Here’s how to actually stop holding a grudge.
Find resources to help recognize, come to terms with, and replace bad habits at https://www.supportiv.com/badhabits. Or, use Supportiv’s online peer support for support in re-thinking behaviors that work against wellbeing.
In addition to its peer-to-peer support network, relevant Supportiv articles and tips also surface in real-time inside its 24/7 peer support chats. By typing a few words in response to the question: “What’s your struggle?” users are matched in under a minute to topic-specific peer-to-peer group chats for anonymous support–from feeling emotional as a man to coping with autism as a woman, from anxiety to apathy, from divorce to communicating better, or from burnout to breaking bad habits. Even experiences like disability, marginalization, and internalized stigma are up for discussion in Supportiv’s anonymous peer support chats.
Supportiv has already enabled over 1.8 million users to feel less lonely, anxious, stressed, misunderstood, and hopeless through its moderator-guided chats with AI-driven content and resource recommendations. See what real users have to say, here: https://www.supportiv.com/testimonials.
