By Seraphina Seow<\/a> | 05\/21\/2021 05:45am EDT | Huffpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n While these morning habits can be beneficial for your energy and mood, they may cause anxiety if you’re not careful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the productivity guru and influencer world, how people \u201cdo\u201d their mornings are often a focus. To start your day right, you should eat this way and not that way.<\/em> To be more productive, do this, not that.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Commonly recommended morning practices \u2015 like exercising or journaling \u2015 can be helpful and healthy. \u201cBut if we get too rigid about certain rituals in our day, that\u2019s when they can become more toxic,\u201d said Han Ren<\/a>, a licensed psychologist<\/a>, speaker and educator based in Austin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you put contingencies around what your morning \u201cshould\u201d look like, this can make you anxious about doing everything perfectly \u2015 then anxious if things don\u2019t go as planned. Even healthy habits can stress you out if you feel you \u201cmust\u201d do them for your day to start well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This stress can be more pronounced if you\u2019re a perfectionist. If you don\u2019t achieve these self-imposed expectations, you can end up feeling like a failure or feeling like you haven\u2019t done enough, said Athina Danilo<\/a>, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Burbank, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here for the rest of the story<\/a> …<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6 Morning Habits That Seem Healthy But Are Secretly Stressing You Out By Seraphina Seow | 05\/21\/2021 05:45am EDT | Huffpost.com While these morning habits can be beneficial for your energy and mood, they may cause anxiety if you’re not careful. In the productivity guru and influencer world, how people \u201cdo\u201d their mornings are often a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[1020,1018,1015,1016,1019,1021,1017],"class_list":["post-9185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insurance","category-shield-blog","tag-eating-a-slow-breakfast","tag-healthy-habits","tag-morning-habits","tag-morning-stress","tag-self-imposed-expectations","tag-snoozing-your-alarm","tag-toxic-habits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11508,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions\/11508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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