Warning! Graphic Content Ahead! You can turn back now ... or choose to read further. Have you ever gone to an online news source to suddenly, surprisingly encounter a gut-wrenching headline or photo? Did ...

Love can’t exist without boundaries, even with your children. It’s easy to understand external boundaries as your bottom line. Think of rules and principles you live by when you say what you will or won’t do or ...

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As the years progress, it can seem harder and harder to feel that we are in control of our mental well-being. In How to Stay Sane, Philippa Perry takes a therapist’s knowledge and experience and converts it to a self-help guide to restoring and keeping mental and emotional balance. The jacket cover bills her ...

Recently, I’ve noticed a pattern in my clients that I call the “tipping point.” The tipping point is basically a time in people’s lives when, for various reasons, the strategies they have been ...

Relaxation is defined as the act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed. It is also defined as the refreshment of the body or mind/recreation. My favorite definition of relaxation comes from Wikipedia. It defines relaxation as ...

When you learn and maintain good time management skills, you'll find freedom from deadline pressure and from stress in general. You'll be more productive, procrastinate less, and have more time to relax, which helps further decrease stress ...

You’re in love -- deeply, passionately, crazy in love. You want to move in together. You are sure you want to share the rest of your lives. You want to marry. Stop! Before you reserve the moving truck or ...

Everyone has experienced stress. We all have demands and we all respond to those demands differently. How we respond to those demands determine our stress level. Life is full of stress. Sometimes it comes and goes and sometimes it lingers. Sometimes our stressors are ...

Do you wish there were more hours in the day to get through your to-do list? Have you had a friend ask, “Are you okay?” If so, were you surprised because you hadn’t even noticed what you were ...

None of us is immune to stress -- not even the professionals who help others cope with theirs. In fact, sometimes it’s just as hard for clinicians. “I wish I were [an] expert at ...

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Everyone comes to a point in their lives when they must make a difficult decision. For instance, choosing a major in college can prove to be very confusing for some. How does a person make that decision? In  Advice is for Winners: How to Get Advice for Better Decisions in Life and Work, Raul Valdes-Perez ...

Research shows shift work has a negative effect on health, relationships, marriages and children, and increases rates of separation and divorce. When partners work different shifts there is often little face-to-face interaction. It becomes difficult to plan any family activities, ...