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Understanding Self-Blame
You’re unhappy, in distress, and trying to figure out how to move forward. It is easy to fall into the self-blame trap. Could this have been avoided if only you’d done something different? Was it someone else’s fault? Perhaps you were just a victim of plain old bad...
Heartbreak? Healthy Ways to Handle a Breakup
Dealing with a breakup is difficult at any age, and is almost always heartbreaking. Whether you’ve been with your partner for a short time or for years, it’s never easy to simply “get over” a relationship. However, there are some things you can do following a breakup...
Peace is Possible! 5 Tips to Cope With Anxious Feelings
Few things can destroy a sense of peace better than worry and anxiety. If you struggle with anxious thoughts and feelings, you understand the havoc anxiety can wreak on everyday life. Anxiety can affect all areas of your life, from work and career, to relationships...
We All Make Mistakes – It’s OK to Give Yourself a Break
When you’ve committed your life to the gospel, stumbling over the problems of life can sometimes be hard to accept. But, it’s important to understand that we’re all human. It’s in our nature to make mistakes - again and again. But we often equate having a struggle...
Coping with Chronic Illness – How to Maintain Positive Outlook
Whether you’re in constant pain or dealing with a prognosis that’s getting you down, it’s often hard to have a positive outlook when you have a chronic illness. People telling you to think positively probably doesn’t help, especially when they aren’t able to relate to...
My Chronic Illness is NOT All in My Head!
If you suffer from chronic pain or illness, you’ve probably developed a close relationship with your doctor (or even a team of specialists). Seeking out the help of a medical doctor should always be your first line of defense when it comes to treatment. As you go...
What is a Work/Life Balance?
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...
Is this Anxiety or Just Stress?
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. It can be difficult to spot the differences between...
How to Move On When You Know the Relationship is Over
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. You may think you’ve already moved...
6 Steps to Realign Your Relationship with Your Values
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...
You Can Remove Toxic Criticism From Your Marriage
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. This toxic behavior can be difficult to recognize because it often...
Midlife Crisis for Women: What This Life Transition May Look Like for You
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...
Relationship Repair: 7 Ways to Regain Your Intimacy and Connection
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...
Happiness: A Symptom of a Life Directed by Values
You may be surprised at what research has found. It can shed some light on the ways we unknowingly set ourselves up to NOT feel happy.
How to Cope When a Loved One Has a Mental Illness
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...
Universal Ways to Improve Mood
Overwhelmed & Running on Empty? Do you need more coping skills? No matter how hard we try, there will always be times when life’s challenges seem to be more than we can manage. Life is hard, and will inevitably have ups and downs. Often the most stressful parts of...
8 Tips to Stick to Your Healthy Resolution
Let’s Get Healthy! It’s that Resolution time of year again! After a month of extra food indulgences, loosened adherence to diet and exercise, and increased stress-eating and social-eating, people across the globe commit to getting healthy in the New Year. Top goals...
Ways to Cope with the Winter Blues
Some people love the cold weather and snowy landscapes, But if you have the Winter Blues, then this is a hard time of year. When your dislike for the winter becomes significant enough to interfere with your ability to function and still enjoy life, you may have...
Dealing with Holiday Stress
Holiday Stress can be overwhelming. The holidays are meant to bring an increase in happiness and connection with others, but often become the cause of increased stress, frustration, anxiety, and conflict. James Baraz wrote an article for the Greater Good Foundation...
Overcoming Depression
If your sadness extends for more days than not, for 2 weeks or more, and interferes with your ability to function in life, you may benefit from seeing a psychologist to help overcome your depressive episode. Read more here from APA. Everyone experiences sadness at...
Beyond Worry: How Psychologist Help with Anxiety Disorders
Worry and stress are a normal part of life. But when anxiety becomes so significant that it interferes with your ability to live important aspects of your life, you may have an anxiety disorder. The American Psychologist Association (APA) wrote in their help center...
The Neurology of How Slower Breathing Calms You Down
We all have heard the advice to take some deep breaths to calm ourselves down. This sage advice now has neuroscience research to back it up and explain the how. Lydia Denworth, author of Brain Waves, wrote an article on Psychology Today about it. Read more here. Take...
Managing stressful conversations when you disagree politically.
Casual conversations can turn tense very quickly. It is often hard to manage the intensity of our feelings when discussing sensitive topics, like politics, religion, parenting, and other topics we care about. This is especially true when talking with family, friends,...
Sleep – How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Sleep is an essential part of a balanced and healthy life, but is often considered a luxury or after-thought, until you are stuck in a cycle of poor sleep! Then it becomes clear how important it is to everything else that is important to us. Everyone has an...