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RALEIGH Highlighting the importance of healthy, caring connections and the presence of protective factors in families and communities, Governor Roy Cooper declared April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in North Carolina.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina (PCANC) are recognizing the role all North Carolinians play in building caring connections, supportive environments and positive experiences for all children and families during Child Abuse Prevention Month in April.
April is a time to for North Carolina community members to learn the important role they play in fostering the safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments that build a strong foundation for healthy child development, said NCDHHS Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D.
How To Feel Better: 7 Science-Based Tips To Boost Your Mood
Strategies to boost positive emotions, decrease negative, and feel better.
Do you tend to feel a lot of negative emotions? Do you feel bad about yourself? Or do you feel unhappy about your place in the world? The science has shown us that we actually have a lot of control over our feelings and well-being (take the well-being quiz to see where you’re at). So here are 7 science-based tips to help you feel better.
1. Strengthen Positive Connections in Your Brain
The more we use the parts of our brain that are responsible for positive things, the stronger those parts will get. Working with positive information, positive memories, and positive attention make all those things stronger. And building these more basic skills can help us be more effective at things like positive thinking, which makes us feel better. One way to use positive information more often is to memorize positive words. Researchers (Bradley & Lang, 1