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6 Ways You Can Deal With Depression When A Child Leaves Home
The departure of a child from the family home is a major transition, one that can trigger feelings of loss, grief, and even depression in parents. Empty nest syndrome refers to feelings of sadness, grief, or loss experienced by parents when their children leave home.
Dating After Divorce: When To Start And How To Get Back Out There
You're finally ready to start dating again after your divorce. But where do you begin? How do you know when the time is right?
Five Of the Best Ways to Foster Optimism
Are negativity, anger, or resentment taking up rent-free space in your mind? Are you finding it difficult to change your thought patterns, finding yourself stuck in repeated thoughts that result in attitudes you’re tired of? These are very natural consequences to your desire to stay relevant in the world today. You do your best to create informed opinions. It’s easy to find yourself overloaded with pessimism, angst, and your anxiety starts to take over and create that heaviness in your chest and stomach. It’s difficult to pull yourself out of those unhappy thoughts.
Anxiety Triggers: What are Anxiety Triggers?
Anxiety triggers are events in life that trigger or cause an anxiety response in your nervous system. This anxiety response could be a increase in your heart rate, tension in your chest or stomach, confusing thoughts that seemingly arrive unbidden, or an overall nervous and uncomfortable sensation that you find difficult to describe. As you begin watching for these events in your life you can pick out some of them fairly easily. Others are a bit more hidden and not so obvious.
A New Observation About Negative Thoughts
There have been a lot of articles published recently about negative thoughts, the amount of anxiety they produce, and what to do with them. In my experience with clients there is one basic understanding that I believe is being missed in the conversation.
Anticipatory Grief: What Is It?
Most people understand the idea of grieving after a loss. Everyone handles it differently and works through the stages of grief at their own pace, but it’s just as important to recognize that anticipatory grief is equally as real and relevant.
5 Ways To Calm Anxiety At Night
Anxiety affects people in different ways. You might find it relatively easy to manage your symptoms during the day, but nearly impossible to keep your thoughts from racing at night.
The Link Between Retirement And Depression
You spend your whole life working, dreaming about being able to retire comfortably and enjoy your free time away from the daily grind. Retirement has plenty of perks, and gives you opportunities you might have never had while pursuing a lifelong career.
3 Tips For Navigating Life After Divorce As A Woman
Going through a divorce is often overwhelming. That doesn’t mean it’s the wrong thing to do, whether things were contentious or amicable. But, it’s still a huge loss, and it can change your overall way of life.
What's In An Affirmation?
An affirmation is a small goal. It’s a goal measured in minutes or as long as a day. It often repeats but is meant to be meaningful as long as you feel your perspective is skewed and can use a small correction.