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Ten Ways to Prepare for the Loss of a Loved One

Ten Ways to Prepare for the Loss of a Loved One

Loss is a part of life, but that doesn't make it easy.

Seven Steps to Overcoming the Anxiety of Self-Doubt

Seven Steps to Overcoming the Anxiety of Self-Doubt

Do you constantly question yourself? Do you feel like you are not good enough?

Six Steps to Healing a Broken Relationship

Six Steps to Healing a Broken Relationship

If your partner is truly sorry for what they did and is seeking to make amends, you can fight for your relationship together.

Four Steps to Letting Go of a Grudge (and Why You Should)

Four Steps to Letting Go of a Grudge (and Why You Should)

The person who hurt you was wrong. But will it help you to punish them?

Understanding the Spiritual Effects of Worrying

Understanding the Spiritual Effects of Worrying

If you don't make the time to calm your mind and your body, you will allow bad things to happen to your spirit.

Divorce Depression: What it is and How it Can be Alleviated

Divorce Depression: What it is and How it Can be Alleviated

People should have an understanding of what to do if they find themselves dealing with divorce depression.

Dealing with the Daily Anxiety of Divorce

Dealing with the Daily Anxiety of Divorce

There's no way to sugarcoat it; going through a divorce causes anxiety.

Easing the Stress and Anxiety of Caretaking

Easing the Stress and Anxiety of Caretaking

When a loved one begins to experience a debilitating illness, the situation can be devastating for the entire family.

Managing Your Anxiety About the War in Ukraine

Managing Your Anxiety About the War in Ukraine

The current war in Ukraine has many of us on edge, especially for those of us who are already struggling with anxiety.

The Time is Now for Couples Therapy

The Time is Now for Couples Therapy

If things could be better between you and your partner, don't wait until a breaking point; now is a good time to consider couples therapy.

3 Calming Routines When Overwhelmed By Your To-Do List

3 Calming Routines When Overwhelmed By Your To-Do List

Our to-do list often seems never-ending; this is common, and no one should ever feel ashamed for admitting that they are overwhelmed.

Why You Should Not Postpone Grief Counseling

Why You Should Not Postpone Grief Counseling

Going to grief therapy feels like being on a life raft headed back to shore after leaving a sinking ship.

What to Expect During Your First Grief Counseling Session

What to Expect During Your First Grief Counseling Session

Most people dealing with the loss of a loved one or divorce would benefit from grief counseling.

Take the Time to Focus on Wellness

Take the Time to Focus on Wellness

People deal with the anxiety of COVID-19 in many ways; it is important to focus on your well-being.

How Writing Can Reduce Stress and Uncertainty

How Writing Can Reduce Stress and Uncertainty

During this unchartered era, what you need is a concrete way to reduce stress so you can get through each day focused, happy, and healthy.

Are You Feeling Anxiety About Your Relationship?

Are You Feeling Anxiety About Your Relationship?

You enjoy nurturing the bond with your partner and want to feel loved in return. However if problems arise, this bond can become a source of stress and anxiety.

From a Lonely Lane of Loss to Your Garden of Gain

From a Lonely Lane of Loss to Your Garden of Gain

Of the many events which we experienced in life, loss and its accompanying grief is often the most difficult to process and resolve.

How Anxiety Impacts Mental Health and Job Performance

How Anxiety Impacts Mental Health and Job Performance

When your emotional state is fragile, your performance at work suffers.

Coronavirus: Keeping the Peace While Working from Home

Coronavirus: Keeping the Peace While Working from Home

Since March 2020, social distancing means many adults will be telecommuting while trying to maintain a peaceful home life.

Don't Delay Dealing with Loss and Grief

Don't Delay Dealing with Loss and Grief

Losing a loved one is very difficult, especially when its unexpected and throws your whole life into chaos.

Reasons to Consider Couples Therapy

Reasons to Consider Couples Therapy

If you recognize that there is trouble in your relationship, then you and your partner must both commit to changing your behavior.

Anxiety Therapy Can Restore Your Emotional Balance

Anxiety Therapy Can Restore Your Emotional Balance

Emotional balance allows you to feel strong in spirit and maintain a sharp mind.

Why Do People Suddenly Need Couples Therapy?

Why Do People Suddenly Need Couples Therapy?

If relationship challenge are normal as we age, then a sudden change in behavior or the need for space could manifest at any time.

Ways to Find Meaning in Grief

Ways to Find Meaning in Grief

Sometimes the rituals around mourning mystify the process and fail to acknowledge that mourning involves the loss of something profound.

Setting Goals to Deal with Anxiety

Setting Goals to Deal with Anxiety

Having goals is the first step towards creating a change.

Strategies to Manage Loss and Grief

Strategies to Manage Loss and Grief

Everyone experiences grief differently.

When Fear Takes Over

When Fear Takes Over

Only when you can master your emotions will you feel in control.

How Self-Esteem Can Affect Relationships

How Self-Esteem Can Affect Relationships

Many relationships never blossom because of low self-esteem.

Changing Peception to Manage Anxiety

Changing Peception to Manage Anxiety

Perceive yourself as capable of controlling anxiety.

Managing Anxiety with Positive Surroundings

Managing Anxiety with Positive Surroundings

People are more likely to attempt new things if they've seen someone like them can do it.

How Busy Parents Can Maintain a Rewarding Relationship

How Busy Parents Can Maintain a Rewarding Relationship

Parenting can feel like a juggling act; it can be easy to let your relationship with your partner slip.

Reduce Anxiety by Limiting Negative Self Talk

Reduce Anxiety by Limiting Negative Self Talk

Your inner voice can take the form of a critic that puts you down, makes you feel bad, or holds you back from having good experiences.

Dealing With Loss During the Winter

Dealing With Loss During the Winter

There are two aspects of the winter season that make it particularly challenging for people who have suffered the loss of a loved one.

The Connection Between Anxiety and Sleep

The Connection Between Anxiety and Sleep

When you sleep better, you are going to be at your best and therefore more prepared to handle the effects of anxiety.

Understanding and Living with Cancer

Understanding and Living with Cancer

Those in the advanced stages of cancer tend to experience a range of emotions.

Learning How to Forgive

Learning How to Forgive

Forgiveness certainly isn't easy. And because of that, it can be intimidating. So why go to all the effort?

Dealing with Social Anxiety in the New Year

Dealing with Social Anxiety in the New Year

Social anxiety may intensify during the winter as a result of spending more time inside away from social situations.

Coping with the Pain of Loss

Coping with the Pain of Loss

The death of someone who makes a big difference in your life is a frequent cause of grief.

Dealing with Marital Issues in a Healthy Way

Dealing with Marital Issues in a Healthy Way

Marital issues can be some of the hardest trials a person can face.

Is There Healing from Anxiety and Panic Attacks? Yes!

Is There Healing from Anxiety and Panic Attacks? Yes!

If you are struggling with panic attacks or feelings of anxiety, there is hope for complete healing.

Finding Inner Peace

Finding Inner Peace

We often find it difficult to give ourselves a break from this world and simply live in the moment.

Dealing with Loss and Grief

Dealing with Loss and Grief

While many have experienced a traumatic event, each person produces a different response.

6 Tips for Living with a Narcissistic Romantic Partner

6 Tips for Living with a Narcissistic Romantic Partner

Many narcissists are loving and giving by nature. They just don't have the empathy or social awareness to back it up.

How To Recognize an Emotionally Abusive Relationship

How To Recognize an Emotionally Abusive Relationship

Take a moment and carefully consider the following red flags of an emotionally abusive relationship.

Learning to Live in the Moment

Learning to Live in the Moment

The strategy of living in the moment can help when dealing with stressful situations.

Mindfulness Meditation and How it Can Help

Mindfulness Meditation and How it Can Help

My goal is to provide practical ways to include mindfulness meditation into your everyday life.

Should You Publicly Share if You're in Therapy?

Should You Publicly Share if You're in Therapy?

Although 1 in 5 adults experience mental illness in their lifetime, the decision to discuss it is a private matter.

Couples Therapy: Is it a Midlife Crisis or a Rough Patch?

Couples Therapy: Is it a Midlife Crisis or a Rough Patch?

Is the problem simply a stereotypical midlife crisis, including a sports car?

How to Use Humor to Build Bonds in Marriage

How to Use Humor to Build Bonds in Marriage

Humor can be an integral part of a solid marriage.

Overcoming Peer Pressure in Parenting

Overcoming Peer Pressure in Parenting

When other children's actions take precedence in your child's life, parenting can often become a struggle.

Teach Your Children Self-Confidence Through Confident Parenting

Teach Your Children Self-Confidence Through Confident Parenting

Parents are usually the defining factor in how their children view and respond to the world.

Healing from Damage Caused by Infidelity in Marriage

Healing from Damage Caused by Infidelity in Marriage

When infidelity occurs in a marriage, the consequences may bring many traumatic and difficult types of challenges.

How Much Time Together Do You and Your Partner Need?

How Much Time Together Do You and Your Partner Need?

Of all the reasons couples fight and grow distant, too much time spent together is a common cause of strife.

How to Maintain a Beautiful Relationship After the First Baby

How to Maintain a Beautiful Relationship After the First Baby

The arrival of a baby is an amazing, exciting experience for any couple. It can also be a huge shock.

5 Ways to Start the New Year on a Positive Note

5 Ways to Start the New Year on a Positive Note

A New Year Means an Opportunity for a Fresh Outlook on Life

Coping with Holiday Grief

Coping with Holiday Grief

For Those Who Have Lost a Loved One, the Holidays can be a Time of Sadness

The Truth About Violent Video Games

The Truth About Violent Video Games

There Has Been an Ongoing Debate About Violent Video Games Since 1976

Our Culture Of Violence and the Trauma Of Gun Violence

Our Culture Of Violence and the Trauma Of Gun Violence

According to the CDC, 93 people are killed with guns on an average day in America.

Starting on the Right Foot - Couples Therapy for Newlyweds

Starting on the Right Foot - Couples Therapy for Newlyweds

Every shared life has its challenges and the skills you learn in couples therapy can help you overcome them together.

When Marriage is Great, Except for the Vicious Arguments

When Marriage is Great, Except for the Vicious Arguments

Couple's Therapy Doesn't Necessarily Mean Your Marriage is in Jeopardy. Even Happy Couples May Need Help in Just One Area.

Getting to Know Each Other Again with Couples Therapy

Getting to Know Each Other Again with Couples Therapy

Overcoming the Phenomena of 'Growing Apart' is One of the Biggest Hurdles for a Long and Happy Marriage.

A Community of Support

A Community of Support

Originally Posted in The Intelligencer on July 18th, 2017

If Tragedy Strikes, Grief Counseling Can Ease the Pain

If Tragedy Strikes, Grief Counseling Can Ease the Pain

People Deal with Severe Loss in Many Different Ways

Even Happy Marriages Can Benefit From Couples Therapy

Even Happy Marriages Can Benefit From Couples Therapy

Couples Therapy Can Help Happily Married People Better Understand One Another

Restoring Excitement in a Marriage

Restoring Excitement in a Marriage

Marriage Can Be Hard, but It is Possible to Regain the Excitement You First Felt

Couples Therapy is Like Relationship Fitness

Couples Therapy is Like Relationship Fitness

Pure Harmony and Civility May Not Be Enough for All Marriages.

Couples Therapy Can Bring Happiness Back to Marriage

Couples Therapy Can Bring Happiness Back to Marriage

Marriage can be Hard. Feelings of Isolation and Lost Connections can Oftentimes Be Solved with Couples Therapy

Eight Ways to Manage Stress While Traveling

Eight Ways to Manage Stress While Traveling

With Summer Quickly Approaching, Here are 8 Ways to Reduce Stress on the Next Family Vacation

Eight Tips For People Dealing With Anxiety

Eight Tips For People Dealing With Anxiety

At Some Point, Anxiety Will Be an Uninvited Disruption in Daily Life.

How to Cope When You Love a Narcissist

How to Cope When You Love a Narcissist

While a person often feels powerless when falling romantically for another person, emotions are ultimately controllable.

Dealing with Narcissistic Relationships in the Workplace

Dealing with Narcissistic Relationships in the Workplace

A Narcissistic Coworker Seeks Out to Bully Those They Perceive to be Weak

The Therapeutic Value of Walking

The Therapeutic Value of Walking

The stereotype of entering a therapist's office and lying on a couch may be a thing of the past.

How to Identify and Cope with Narcissistic Relationships

How to Identify and Cope with Narcissistic Relationships

Both Men and Women Can Find Themselves in a Narcissistic Relationship; Here are Some Ways to Identify and Cope with the Situation

Grief Counseling Sheds Light on The Path of Loss

Grief Counseling Sheds Light on The Path of Loss

Losing a Loved One is a Traumatic Event. Dealing with Bereavement will Help Bring Happiness Back.

Walk and Talk Therapy is a Stroll Through the Park

Walk and Talk Therapy is a Stroll Through the Park

Walk and Talk Therapy is a Way to Care for Both Our Emotional and Physical Well-Being.

Dealing with Loss During the Holidays

Dealing with Loss During the Holidays

The pain of loss has no season, but for some, the holidays bring on a deeper level of grief.

Coping With Election Anxiety

Coping With Election Anxiety

Regardless of party affiliation, the 2016 election caused anxiety for many people.

Dealing with Anxiety in a Narcissistic Relationship

Dealing with Anxiety in a Narcissistic Relationship

There are many co-dependent people dealing with the anxiety of narcissistic abuse.

Discussing Sexual Abuse Should Not Be Tabu

Discussing Sexual Abuse Should Not Be Tabu

In today's society of open communication, there are few topics people are hesitant to discuss... except sexual abuse.

Tips for Dealing with Anxiety Without Medication

Tips for Dealing with Anxiety Without Medication

Anxiety medication can be useful, but there are other ways to handle anxiety.

Dealing With Social Anxiety in Today's Connected World

Dealing With Social Anxiety in Today's Connected World

The Advent of Social Networking Connects Us More than Ever, but Oftentimes, it can Make You Feel Isolated.

Dealing With Anxiety: How to Let Go and Get Your Life Back

Dealing With Anxiety: How to Let Go and Get Your Life Back

Anxiety is a serious mental illness that has grown all too common each passing year.

The Benefits of Walk and Talk Therapy

The Benefits of Walk and Talk Therapy

Walking During Therapy Sessions Helps Clear the Mind

Dealing with the Psychological Damage of Police Shootings

Dealing with the Psychological Damage of Police Shootings

If you watch the news, the reports of police shootings can intensify anxiety for anyone who watches them.

Three Tips for Dealing with Anxiety

Three Tips for Dealing with Anxiety

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 18 percent of adults in the U.S. live with the effects of anxiety disorders.

Have You Suffered a Loss? Five Ways to Get Past the Pain

Have You Suffered a Loss? Five Ways to Get Past the Pain

If you’ve lived even the smallest portion of your life, you have suffered a loss.

Five Tips to Help You Get Off the Anxiety Roller Coaster

Five Tips to Help You Get Off the Anxiety Roller Coaster

Living with anxiety isn’t a straight and clear path.

Stress Management Tool: Mindful Meditation

Stress Management Tool: Mindful Meditation

Being stressed out is no picnic. You’re jumpy and distracted.

Overcoming Sexual Abuse: Take These Steps

Overcoming Sexual Abuse: Take These Steps

Memories of sexual abuse can feel like a screen that separates you from all those around you.

The Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Effects of Anxiety

The Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Effects of Anxiety

Stress is the hidden secret behind our most dangerous physical diseases.

7 Ways to Help Loved Ones Cope with Grief

7 Ways to Help Loved Ones Cope with Grief

As much as we'd like to protect the people we love from any sort of pain and loss, it’s a part of every life.

Find Peace From Anxiety

Find Peace From Anxiety

Anxiety is the most common mental illness in the country.