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It’s easy to fall into the trap of letting your job define your life. People are working longer hours than ever and allowing their work to come home with them. Finding a work / life balance is difficult.
But, it’s important to prevent your career from defining who you are. Your job shouldn’t be your identity. The line between work life and your personal life can become blurry, or almost non-existent.
...continue reading "What is a Work/Life Balance?"
Stress and anxiety often get grouped together. Many people even think they’re the same thing. But, it’s important to know the difference between stress and anxiety, so you can really know what you’re dealing with.
...continue reading "Is this Anxiety or Just Stress?"
Moving on after a breakup isn’t easy. It’s about more than just forgetting the past or letting go of the relationship.
Yet, knowing exactly how to get past a relationship once it’s over is important for your overall emotional health.
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Values are the core principles that guide our daily choices. Your values can include a focus on things like family, friends, religion, and more. But, if your partner doesn’t share your values, the very things that drive the direction of your life, it can make your relationship difficult.
...continue reading "6 Steps to Realign Your Relationship with Your Values"
Focusing on other’s faults is a natural human behavior. It’s called the negativity bias. But criticism is a behavior that can be incredibly damaging to your relationships—especially your marriage.
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There are plenty of stereotypes and about what people go through when dealing with a midlife crisis.
But a midlife crisis can actually be much more complicated than the picture most people have in mind. It can especially look different for women who are experiencing this transitional period of life.
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Something feels off in your relationship. You don't feel as close as you used to be. You crave more intimacy and connection.
It could be as serious as infidelity. Or, it might just be that the honeymoon phase is over, life is busy and stressful, and you aren’t quite sure how to reconnect and move forward together.
Whatever the issue is, one key solution is to rebuild the intimacy and daily connection that has become weakened.
...continue reading "Relationship Repair: 7 Ways to Regain Your Intimacy and Connection"
A diagnosis of mental illness affects more than just the patient. Family relationships and friendships are often affected too. If someone you care about struggles with symptoms of a mental illness, this article quoted below from the American Psychological Association (APA) addresses the situation.
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