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Work on Your Relationship to Ensure the Emotional Health of Your Children
Posted: August 01, 2014 by [email protected]
There are many benefits to working on your marriage or committed relationship. Secure attachment offers a safe haven, provides comfort and security and offers a buffer against the effects of stress and uncertainty. Another very important benefit to working on your relationship is to ensure the emotional health of your children. Research shows that children in homes with parents in strong relationships are more successful, have less mental health issues and higher self-esteem, on average, than children in homes with parents in weak relationships.
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Read MoreIs it OK to feel Ambivalent?
Posted: June 12, 2014 by Nani Waddoups
Ambivalence: the co-existence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing the individual in conflicting directions.
Tags: mood and feelings, relationship and family, anxiety, life transition
Read MoreDo People Really Hate Change?
Posted: May 21, 2014 by Dan Harold LCSW
People often talk about how difficult change is. But if we really stop and look back on most of the difficult periods of our life, we often learn to appreciate the results of change. Of course there are certain hurtful experiences that will never feel positive. I want to acknowledge that, and point out that I'm talking about all the other changes in our lives. Not everything makes sense, and not everything happens for a reason.
Tags: mood and feelings, relationship and family, anxiety, life transition
Read MoreLosing the Diet is Not Losing
Posted: May 09, 2014 by Anne Cuthbert, M.A.
You may have had very good reasons to start that first diet. Perhaps a family member was concerned about you and how the other kids would treat you. Perhaps your mother commented negatively on her body and you realized the importance of looking thin. Perhaps your body was criticized for how it looked. Maybe you and your friends decided to diet together. Whatever the reason, your first diet started you down the path to disordered eating-ville.
Tags: mood and feelings, anxiety, addiction and behavior, body issues
Read MoreUsing Love to Combat Fear
Posted: May 01, 2014 by Jennie Hagen
As a practitioner of yoga, I’ve learned many pieces of yogi philosophy that speak to me both as a counselor and a human. One of the first things I learned that still sticks with me years later is this: The opposite of fear is love.
Tags: mood and feelings, anxiety, life transition
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