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The Obsession with Not Being Good Enough
The obsession with not being good enough is one of the most common reasons for low feelings of self-worth. Finding the root causes and putting behavioral self-compassion in place protects our self-worth and gives us hope for the future.
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Stop Anxiety Tension with Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Progressive muscle relaxation is scientifically proven to release the tension associated with anxiety and stress. The goal is to tense the body progressively, then release that tension, allowing the body to relax and rest peacefully.
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5 Ways to Help a Loved One Who is Hurting
Pain is a part of life. That doesn't make it easy to deal with, especially when someone we love is hurting. We want to help but don't always know what to do. Here are five ways.
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Is This Fraud?
If we have to ask the question whether what we are experiencing is fraud, then most likely, it is.
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Four Ways Keeping Family Secrets Hurts the Family
Society's ills infect the best of homes and families. Our first response is to quarantine the problem and put the information under lock and key. This does not make the problem go away or keep our loved ones from being hurt.
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Decreasing Anxiety With Mindfulness "I Am" Self-Talk
Anxiety is fueled by thinking about and living in the future. To counteract this, I use mindfulness to focus on the present. "I Am" statements in my self-talk keep me focused on the here and now, decreasing my anxiety.
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4 Reasons Physical Illness Leads to Depression
Physical illness, by its very nature, leads to depression. Here are four reasons why.
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3 Reasons Others May Seem Cold and Distant
When others seem cold and distant, we automatically assume that they do not like us or are angry with us. This may not be the case. Check out these three things that could be issues.
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3 Ways We Kept Our Stress From Getting Out of Control
When stress gets out of control, we experience physical distress to the point that we become ill. To keep this from happening, use these three simple techniques.
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What Works for Me: Stop a Panic Attack With Three Simple Steps
During a panic attack, we feel like we are going to die. Rather than going to the emergency room, use these three steps to bring emotions back to a manageable level.
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A Christian Reflection on How Grief Changes Children
When children experience grief during their early developmental stages, their emotional health is compromised. Our actions as adults can help them work through their grief and learn to trust again.
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5 Ways to Nurture Yourself
Our ability to care for ourselves determines the amount of resilience we have, the quality of our emotional health, and our ability to experience happiness in life. There are five critical areas.
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Assumptions and the Problems They Cause
Assumptions are a part of our everyday lives. Every decision we make is based upon them. The problem occurs when we make decisions based on assumptions that we have not validated or proven correct.
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When Patience Isn't Enough
The difficulties of life are suppose to help us develop patience, but sometimes, they last longer than we think they should. How do we cope when we are at the end of our rope?
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How Can I Tell If It Is Stress Or Anxiety?
Stress and anxiety are both manifest in the form of physical symptoms. With their many similarities, how are we to know the cause of our distress? The answer is simple and easy to use.
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How Can I Stop Worrying?
Worry and responsibility go hand in hand. At what point can we tell that worry is a problem, and once it is, what can we do about it?
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Countdown to Lift Off! A Technique for Getting Through Life's Transitions
The transitions of life often bring with them emotional baggage that leaves us frustrated and overwhelmed. Using "The Countdown" technique, we make these events happen much more smoothly.
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Music, the Inspiration for Emotional Health
Music has the power to soothe and bless, to inspire and motivate. It is one of the most important tools we have in establishing and maintaining our emotional health.
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Courage and Faith in the Face of Death
Sooner or later, we all will face death. We can easily be consumed with it if we are not careful. Courage and faith keep us continuing to choose, even when death is imminent.
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Caught Between Work and Family
It is no fun to be caught between work and family. The conflicts never end, and we don't know which way is up. Is it possible to resolve this issue and still be together?
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How Do We Help Those We Love Make Hard Decisions?
Life is full of decisions. We all make them. Sometimes, we have to set aside our own personal desires at the moment and do what we know is best in the long run. This isn't easy for anyone!
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I'm Not Complaining, I'm Just Venting!
Whether we are complaining or venting, we are finding and telling others about the negative in our lives. Unfortunately, it does not solve the problems we are facing, it only creates more of them!
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Is Self-Doubt Undermining Everything You do?
Self-doubt is like a contagious virus that gets into our blood stream, leaving us too weak to stand up for what we know is right. It increases our vulnerability and leaves us destitute and alone.
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You Must Be Exaggerating!
Exaggeration isn't just for little white lies, it is a distorted thought process that creates emotional tidal waves that sweep away everything in their path. Learn how to rein it in with these tips.
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Warning! Stress Overload!
Stress can wreak havoc with our personal health and family life. Recognize the signs and figure out the cause in order to reduce the overload.
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The Battle Inside Each One of Us
There is a war going on inside each of us. Sometimes, we feel that we just can't make it and fear takes over. Other times, we have the courage to go forward. What makes the difference?
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Suicide: Emotional Heart Failure
When someone we love ends their own life, the very foundations of our existence come into question. Only as we turn to God are we able to move on.
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Book Review - "The Fear Cure" by Lissa Rankin, MD
The Fear Cure is must read for those dealing with anxiety and its accompanying psychosomatic issues. Fear is real, and no matter where it comes from, we can do something to harness its power for good.
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How Do Our Emotions Affect Our Financial Management?
Spending money is an emotional experience. When our emotions are out of whack, what happens to our ability to handle our finances?
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How Can We Choose Love When Life is Hard?
Choosing to love others is easy when things are going well, but how do we do it when they are not? Is there a formula we can follow that will help us?
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The Connection Between Anger and Fear
Anger and fear appear to be two very different emotions, but when we look at the thought patterns that are at their roots, the distortions are very similar.
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Emotional Health for Kids - Whose Job is it?
Emotional health is in the headlines these days. Our children need this vital skill to be successful in school and life, but who should be providing them with the instruction?
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Recognizing the Signs of Emotional Pain
When we are unable to recognize and deal with our emotional pain, it comes out in the form of physical symptoms or signs. Once we recognize what is happening, we can find the cause and deal with it.
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How to Change Your Spouse in Five Easy Steps
Marriage is getting a bad rap these days. Before you head for the divorce courts, implement these five easy steps. You might be surprised at the results!
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Why Do I Feel Emotionally Numb?
When we don't know what it is that we are feeling, we may be dealing with emotional numbness. There are several possible causes, and the solutions may be surprising.
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Are Your Expectations Too High?
Our expectations can either make our break us. If they are too low, we live our lives bored and unfulfilled. If they are too high, they can cause us emotional turmoil.
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What is Depression Made Of?
Depression is one of the most difficult things we will ever experience. Thoughts of helplessness and hopelessness turn us against ourselves and the world. Is there anything we can do?
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I Want to Be Prepared - Where Do I Start?
Preparedness doesn't just happen. It has to start somewhere. Our future is filled with uncertainty and we constantly face the unknown. There are four basic areas of preparedness on which we can focus.
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Anticipating the Future
Although anticipation is neither negative or positive, it is the thoughts we entertain during it that make or break our emotional state. Preparation is key to our ability to handle what comes our way.
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Find the Fear, Then You Can Move Forward
Fear immobilizes us. We can't move forward or back. We are stuck in suspended animation until we identify the fear, where it is coming from, and figure out what to do with it.
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The Effect of Words on Our Emotional Health
Words are not just letters on a page, they are the food our souls ingest that enable us to live effectively day in and day out in a world that is rapidly changing.
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After the Adrenalin - Living the Let Down
The crisis is past, the performance is finished, the deadline has been met, and the audience has gone home. Now what?
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Suicide: The Door To Nowhere
Where do suicidal thoughts come from? What can we do with them? And how can we help those who are having them?
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When a Child Says "I Hate You!"
Whether the child is 2 years old or twenty, the words "I hate you!" cut deeply. Our first reaction is to fly off the handle, inflicting pain and punishment. Try this three step approach instead.
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Family, its All that Really Matters!
We don't realize how important our families are to us until a crisis threatens to take them away.
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What Can We Do With Embarrassment?
Embarrassment makes us want to crawl into a hole and cover ourselves up until everyone goes away. Fortunately for us, that is not usually what ends up happening!
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Looking Up - The Key to Emotional Survival
Looking up will save us from disaster, not just when we are on the road, but when life is at its darkest.
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The Woman on Top of the World
It is only through experiencing the difficulty of the climb that we appreciate the sweetness of being at the top!
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Teaching Young Children Problem Solving
Young children do not come programmed in how to solve the problems of life, they have to be taught. If caregivers do not teach this vital skill, children are a disaster waiting to happen!
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Providing Emotional First Aid - Helping Others When They Are In Distress
Every day, we have the opportunity to assist someone that is in emotional distress. Using this simple three step formula, we can help them work through their crisis.
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Addictions and What They Do to Our Emotional Health
The condition of our emotional health has a lot to do with the things we allow ourselves to get "hooked on." Whether harmful addictions, or just emotional habits, they affect us in profound ways.
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Dealing With Feelings Of Loneliness
We will all have feelings of loneliness at some point in our lives. What we do with them will determine whether we end up with happiness or misery.
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Why Do We Fear Aging?
What is it about aging that makes us want to run and hide? We know that we will all die. That isn't really the problem. There is something else that bothers us, even more than our fading capabilities.
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Faith and Family
Each day in our families, we exercise our faith. Each choice we make, each person we greet, each time we give of ourselves, we make a difference in the lives of those we love.
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Stuck in a No-Win Situation?
When we are stuck in a difficult situation and there is no way out, we may feel like it is the end of the world. Thankfully, there is something we can do. Try this simple formula.
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How Beliefs Affect Our Emotional Health
Our beliefs are the basis of our assumptions about life. They affect everything we do. If we are not careful, they will undermine our emotional health.
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The Purpose of Conflict in Marriage
Conflict is inevitable in marriage. It either brings us closer together or pulls us apart, depending upon what we do with it.
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Taming the Wild Horse of Anxiety
Anxiety is like a wild horse, unstable and unpredictable. In order to tame it, we use the same self-calming techniques that are used in the training of horses. Then we can ride like the wind!
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When We Feel Knocked Down
There is a tug-of-war going on inside each of us. We feel we are winning when good triumphs, but what happens when it does not? We feel knocked down, even punished, though we have done nothing wrong.
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Allowing Grief To Do Its Work
When we allow grief to do its work, we experience a wide range of emotions, both negative and positive, as our lives adjust themselves to the loss we have experienced.
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Re-establishing a Sense of Identity
Identity is not just about the cards in our wallets, it is the window through which we view and experience the world. When difficult things happen, we often need to re-establish a new world view.
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Dealing With Feelings of Vulnerability
The difficult experiences of life often leave us feeling robbed, defeated, and susceptible to exploitation. In this state of vulnerability, we are at risk of loosing the very thing we need to survive.
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How Excitement Can Easily Turn Into Worry and Anxiety
Excitement is an anticipatory emotion. Left unchecked, it can evolve into worry, and eventually to anxiety. Setting limits on anticipation keeps this from occurring.
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Prepare Wills and Power of Attorney Documents Using Internet Based Software
We never know when our time will be. It is best to prepare in advance, for the sake of our loved ones. With current technology, it doesn't have to be costly.
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Adjusting to Life After Loss
Whether our loss is from death, divorce, or dismemberment, there are adjustments that need to be made. The better we understand them, the sooner we can find enjoyment in life again.
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When is it Okay to Choose Death?
We are taught all of our lives that choosing death is wrong, yet when we are faced with its certainty, we have to make some difficult choices.
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When Things Seem Out of Control
Sometimes life throws us a curve ball that throws us in a tailspin. Follow these simple steps to get back in the game.
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Every Family is Dysfunctional
Every family has problems, no matter what their constitution or circumstances. Rather than looking at what we don't have, we need to look at what we do.
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How Can We Deal With Disappointment?
Disappointment is all around us, whether due to unfulfilled expectations and dreams or let downs in our relationships with others. If we check the negative thoughts, we can minimize the pain we feel.
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Dealing With Stress: The 3R Strategy (Rethink, Relax, Refocus)
Manage your stress and anxiety with this simple 3R strategy to get your life back on track.
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Setting Boundaries for Ourselves and Our Loved Ones
Setting boundaries is not a cut-and-dried activity. Every person is unique and requires different techniques to help them make wise choices. Use these guidelines to facilitate the process.
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Are You Feeling Overwhelmed?
Feeling overwhelmed is like having the weight of the world on our shoulders. We can't move it because the burden is so heavy, and yet we don't know what to do. The techniques in this hub will help.
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Yes, There are Those Down Days
We all experience days when things just don't go the way we want. We feel like the world is against us, and there is just no way to make it worse. Use those days to learn how to make life better.
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Preparing Your Family for the Stress of the Holidays
Holidays can be very stressful on a family with all of the socials, parties, and family dinners. Work together as a family to plan those things you would like to do for a successful celebration.
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The Role of Traditions in Establishing Family Unity
We often think of tradition in relationship to holiday celebrations. A tradition is also a regular practice we incorporate into our family life that promotes meaning, purpose, and unity.
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Our Families Were Meant to be Enjoyed, Not Just Endured
Our greatest joys and deepest sorrows are experienced in the family. Savoring the good times fills us with a reservoir of memories that keep us afloat when the storms of life threaten.
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Roles and Responsibilities in the Family
There are primary and secondary roles and responsibilities within the family. Primary are biologically based according to male and female; whereas secondary are divided among family members.
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Patience is When You Hide Your Impatience
We all wish we could have more patience, but how does it happen? There is no magic formula, but understanding the quality and how we can use it in life will help.
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Ten Tips for Parents - Teenagers with Attitudes
Some teenagers have attitudes that cause major problems within the family circle. Read to find out how to recognize it, and ten tips to help you deal with it.
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Preparing for the Death of a Loved One - Dealing With Anticipatory Grief
As we prepare for the death of those who are close to us, we may experience grief before the event even occurs. This can become problematic when it changes the way we feel and act toward them.
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How to Prepare Emotionally for Retirement
We all look forward to that day when we are no longer employed in the work force. Unfortunately, life sometimes take us places that we had not originally anticipated. Take time now to prepare.
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Overcome Discouragement With Resolve
Even the best of the best have their days of difficulty. How do they get through it? Discouragement is a part of our daily lives. Use resolve to make it a thing of the past.
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Are You Worried About Your Family?
Families are the most important relationships we have in this life. Take the quiz to find out if your worry is leading to issues that are problematic.
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How Do I Stop the Abuse?
Abuse intimidates and demeans, leaving a person feeling worthless and helpless. Is it possible to stop it?
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Helping a Loved One with Mental Illness
Having a loved one with mental illness is difficult. Helping them requires an understanding of their illness, what is best for their general welfare, and sometimes, a bit of tough love.
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Role of the Principal in Special Needs Education
The principal of the school provides vital leadership to the Individual Educational Planning Team, along with much needed moral support for teachers, service providers, and parents.
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The Child With Special Needs: Communication Between Parent and Teacher
Teaching a child with special needs is difficult, whether you are a parent or a teacher. Communication between school and parents enables both to experience success.
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How to Protect Your Family From Your Own Guilty Conscience
Guilt is the body's red flag to let you know when you have done something wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, your family is at risk. Take the steps necessary to protect them now.
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Five Ways to Improve Your Conversation Skills in the Workplace
Conversations skills are essential for success in the workplace. It is in and through conversation that relationships are built. The five skills listed in this hub are the basis of good conversation.
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How to Clean an Entire House Quickly
The clock is ticking and you haven't much time. You need cleanliness and order fast. You throw on your stretch pants, tank top and tennis shoes, and you are ready to go! What now?! Where to start?
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The Importance of Praying for Our Spouse
Prayer is powerful. Without it, life is empty and meaningless. Marriage without prayer is like trying to plant seeds without giving them the necessary water and sunshine to make them grow.
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Re-Kindling the Romance in Your Marriage
Marriage begins with romance. In order for the marriage to continue, romance must be re-kindled on a regular basis. Marriage without romance becomes stale and unfulfilled.
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How to Help Your Spouse Recognize and Deal with Their Depression
Depression is one of the most common debilitating conditions known to the human race. Having a loved one that is depressed leaves chores undone, love unexpressed, and expectations unfulfilled.
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Take the Time Today to Increase the Self Esteem of Your Family Members
Every family is different. In spite of these differences, we all have one thing in common. Family members are the people that we are with during the most important parts of our day.
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Helping Children Deal with a Lost Friendship
Our children will experience problems in their friendships. As their parents, we can best help by lending a listening ear, and reflecting back to them the feelings that they express.
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Establishing Guardianship Over Adult Children With Mental Disabilities
Guardianship is court ordered parenthood. It can be granted over any adult that is incapacitated by mental or physical illness or disability. Guardianship enables decisions to be made in behalf of the individual that are in their best interest when they are not in a position to do so for...
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When is it Safe to Take Clozapine During Mental Health Treatment?
Clozapine is being prescribed for the treatment of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and severe bi-polar disorder when treatment with other anti-psychotic medications has been unsuccessful.
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What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
When our daughter was suspected of having schizoaffective disorder, it was time for us to do some investigating. We found that it is a combination of the symptoms manifested in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The resulting psychotic break required our daughter to be in the mental health unit...
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Give Your Teenager Independence and You Peace of Mind
Teenagers want their independence and most parents want to give it to them. In order to make it happen, teenagers need to learn how to choose wisely. Their choices affect them all of their lives.
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Keeping Your Marriage Strong Through Life's Critical Moments
Life has many critical moments, and most of them affect us as individuals within the family setting. Marriages are strengthened or weakened depending upon how we deal with these moments.
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Say "I Love You" to Your Spouse Today
Keeping love alive in the midst of the day to day activities of the family can be difficult, but it is possible. Read on to find ways that you may not have thought of before.
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Understanding Children With Disabilities
In order to understand students with disabilities, it is necessary to understand where disabilities come from, how they are identified, and what can be done to help them.
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What Is the Purpose of IQ Testing in the Public School Setting?
With the advent of the Response to Intervention process, IQ testing has been getting a lot of publicity. Many believe it's unnecessary, while others feel it's still a valid method of obtaining information. Learn more about how the IQ test is used by schools.
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Overcoming the Fear of the Unknown in the Workplace
Fear of the unknown is often the basis for worry. The resulting physical symptoms are troublesome. Although based on real life situations, fear is perpetuated by irrational beliefs.
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What is Your Biggest Fear?
Fear is a difficult emotion. It freezes a person in their tracks and causes physical symptoms that just won't go away. Worry is its constant companion. Recognizing what we fear is the first step.
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How to Change Your Children's Behavior
In order for children to change their behavior, it is necessary for the adults in their lives to take action. Just as weeds grow in every garden, negative behavior is automatic.
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Pinwheels for Prevention of Abuse
No one is immune from abuse, whether abuse of the self, children, or others. Child abuse is a growing concern, especially in the United States, and Pinwheels for prevention is raising awareness.
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Bringing Children to the Waters of Life
Children are naturally curious. They want to feel, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Water allows them to experience all of these in multiple ways. The Savior, as the water of life, can be experienced through multiple senses when we allow our children to be integrally involved in our family's...
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Everyone Needs a Support Group
Everyone needs someone to talk to. Having a strong support system is a great way to be emotionally healthy and keep self and other abuse out of our lives.
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Using Journaling to Change Your Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions
Journaling is a great way to change your thoughts, feelings, and actions. There are many ways to go about it, and using the computer opens up avenues not available elsewhere.
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Microsoft Scam - They've Got Your Number
We thought we knew what to look for with Internet fraud. But this wasn't about our identity, nor did it come from the Internet. Our computer just plain wasn't working right and would frequently tell us that it needed to send another error message. Of course, we sent the messages. They are supposed...
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The Star Quilt, Gift of Compassion
Receiving a star quilt from a Native American is an honor. Not only does it represent a significant relationship with that person, but a significant contribution to their life. People give and recieve star quilts at births, deaths, graduations, and farewells. Learn how to make a star quilt and what...
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Find Positive Statements and Actions That Build Feelings of Self-Worth
Positive statements and actions that build feelings of self-worth are all around us. Some are from people we know, others come simply because we are human beings in a world of living things.
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Change Negative Emotions Before You Express Them in Ways That Hurt Yourself and Others
Negative emotions are a part of life, but that don't have to control us. We can change them by recognizing them and the thought processes that lead to them, then focusing on their opposites.
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Breaking the Cycle of Abuse
Abuse hurts, no matter the type or source. It damages the soul of the individual and leaves one feeling vulnerable, worthless, and hopeless.
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What Is Anger Made Of?
Anger is a strong emotion. It occurs when you are faced with situations or behaviors we do not like or agree with. The automatic reaction to these situations is a strong negative feeling.
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The Physiology of Emotion
Emotions affect all major systems of the body. Circumstances are processed through the past experience files of the brain. The results then trigger specific responses in the systems of the body.
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Fighting DRAGONS - Depression, Rage, Anxiety, Guilt, and Other Negative Self Esteems
Are you fighting DRAGONS, Depression, Rage, Anxiety, and Other Negative Self-Esteems? Learn how to identify the enemy, what weapons to use, and how to come out alive!
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How Children Develop a Guilt Complex
Fault finding often leads to physical punishment, and frequently is administered to more than the guilty party. Unproductive guilt and its accompanying negative emotions are a byproduct.
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Live in the Light of Today
It is easy to blame our unhappiness on things that have happened in the past, or to think that if certain things happen, then we will be happy. Unfortunately, neither option works.
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Are There Advantages to Having a Large Family?
Having a large family is not easy. It takes time to provide for their needs and see that everyone learns what they need to; however, life lessons are much more likely to be learned in a large family.
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Change Your Emotions With Visualization
We encourage our children to imagine, pretend, and use their minds to take them from place to place while they read. When we get to be adults, however, such things are considered to be juvenile. Unfortunately, it leaves us without one of the greatest tools available for changing how we feel.
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Moving On After Tragedy
Tragedy is difficult. It takes away all that is familiar in life. In an effort to find our way, we redefine ourselves, our relationships, and our circumstances. We come to terms with the unknown.
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Lessons From a Lifeless Tree
It is hard to believe that an inanimate object can teach a person something. That is what happened when I brought an artificial tree into my home. I didn't realize that I would have to do something to make it look nice, but when I did, a miracle happened.
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The Power of Personal Change
Change can happen. It isn't automatic, though. First we have to recognize the need for it, then resolve that we want it. The opportunity to change occurs in a split second.
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When Your Teenager is Uncooperative
Teenagers that are having issues usually show outward signs of distress. Recognizing the signs and dealing with the issues as they arise allows relationships of trust to remain solid.
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Remembering My Father
Oftentimes, the memories we have of our parents are the times that were difficult in our childhood, yet when we realize the things that our parents went through in their lives, they did the best they could.
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Keeping Babies Safe While They Learn to Crawl
Once babies start to move around, the safest place for them is the floor. Unfortunately, there are still issues that must be addressed, including cleanliness, temperature, and stairways.
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Decrease Stress with a Change of Focus
Stress happens to everyone. Without it, we wouldn't have the energy to move and do things. Stress becomes problematic when it causes physical symptoms. Changing our focus decreases the stress.
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What Should I Do? Which Way Should I Go? Making Wise Decisions
The ability to make decisions affects everything we do and is a major part of our emotional health. Use good habits to keep daily decisions to a minimum, and set goals to guide big decisions.
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Teaching Children Responsibility and Respect
Responsibility and respect go hand in hand. As children learn responsibility, they form better opinions of themselves and others. They are more obedient, and understand what is expected of them.
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Teaching Children Love
Kindness is the language of love. Children identify readily with someone who is kind to them. Correction does not have to be harsh. Harshness is equated with a lack of love.
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Types of Adversity
There are many sources of difficulty in life. Some come from our own choices and actions and some come from the choices and actions of those around us.
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Prayer is Individual Communication With God
God speaks to us through the scriptures and the words of others. We speak to him through prayer. It is possible to pray any time, any place. Certain prayers are formal, others are informal.
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Faith is a Process
Faith is a many faceted principle. It is not a static event or a personality characteristic. Rather it is a process whereby we come to know God.
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How to Teach Toddlers Obedience
Toddlers are eager to please the adults in their lives. Adults are responsible for teaching them skills. Taking the time now will mean obedience later as relationships of trust are developed.
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Teaching Children Trust
Trust is the first thing children learn after birth. It is built on the premise that their needs will be met by those who care for them and continues only as the child's needs continue to be met.
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Helping Young Adults Prepare to Leave Home
The young adults years are full of decision making. Life at home is not the same as dependence gives way to independence, yet roots have not been established outside of the immediate family.
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Teaching Teenagers Positive Behavior
Terrific teenagers do not happen automatically, they are grown through an understanding of the changes they face. Identity, the purpose of life, peer groups, and gender roles all have a place.
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Teach Preteens Positive Behavior
Children from the ages of 10-12 are in the "preteen" group. Many changes are happening to their physical bodies and they may feel uncomfortable with themselves and others, especially their peers.
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Instill Positive Behavior in Children
Instilling positive behavior in children requires teaching before, during, and after. Children need to understand what is expected of them.
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Teaching Toddlers Positive Behavior
Toddlers can be a challenge for any parent. They want to be independent yet do not know everything they need to do so. It is best to establish a relationship of trust and teach skills.
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How to Recognize and Change Distorted Thinking Patterns
Thoughts and actions are integrally connected. If thought patterns are irrational, then inappropriate actions will follow. Identification of thought patterns allows them to be changed.