What Are The Causes And Symptoms Of Depression?
Clinical depression is a medical condition that doesn’t just affect your outlook and mood, but it affects your marriage too. According to WebMd, depression doesn’t cause divorce; it’s not dealing with the consequences of depression that can lead to divorce. Depression is often called the “blues.” Someone who is depressed feels…
Five Ways to Have Your Needs Met in Marriage
No one wants to stay in a marriage where their needs aren’t met. In fact, according to an article on MarriageSavers.com, “Astonishingly, there seems to be a much higher risk of divorce in marriages where spouses are not meeting each other’s emotional needs than there is in all the marriages that…
Six Tips To Make Fear An Ally Instead Of An Enemy
Fear can be an enemy or a friend. It can hold you back and keep you stuck or propel you forward in an attitude of determination and resourcefulness. Fear can overwhelm you with worry and uncertainty, making you dread tomorrow. Or, it can make you say, “I’ve had enough!” motivating…
5 Ways Loving Your Life Makes Things Better
What you think and feel about your life is something you get to decide. It’s a choice. And it’s an important one because it determines your reality. Maybe you’ve made a few mistakes, and things haven’t always (or rarely) gone as you hoped or planned. But deciding life is a…
5 Reasons Why You Should Forgive Yourself
It’s hard to forgive ourselves, especially if we’ve hurt someone we love deeply or feel we were the cause behind a painful situation or outcome. But withholding forgiveness only makes things worse and harms our emotional, physical, and mental health. According to therapists, we will experience these five wonderful benefits…
Six Steps To Start Living Life To The Fullest!
They say we’re motivated by two things: love or fear. (Some say it’s “pain” or “pleasure.”) But one thing is for sure, if you’re in an unhappy or unfulfilling relationship or marriage, you probably experience pain and fear on most days. Love opens and warms our hearts; it makes us…
What If You’re Stuck In Negativity?
It isn’t always easy to be positive and grateful, especially when experiencing loss or feeling worried or depressed. Just so it’s been said if you’re going through something terrible right now, and you’re in a real dark place, please get the support you need by finding a therapist or a…
5 Ways To Make More Time For Yourself
How often do you take time for yourself? When was the last time you made time to enjoy a hobby, pursue a passion, or relax? Unless you schedule time for yourself, you might be alive, but you’re not really living. Depriving yourself of the time you need to stay healthy…
5 Ways To Appreciate Yourself More
It’s easy to be hard on yourself, especially if you grew up in an environment where criticism was abundant and praise scarce, with caregivers more focused on your faults and failures than your talents and successes, which said more about them than you, by the way. (And there was more…
Self-Compassion Is A Fad, And Other Myths
The idea of self-compassion is still a pretty foreign concept to many people. Ok, most people. Not too long ago, in our parents’ day, there was this mindset that life was hard, very hard, and so you just sucked it up and got on with it. Period. End of story….