Stress Articles

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• The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques Workbook
  In 2008, Margaret Wehrenberg published The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques:  Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change it.  Now a workbook has been released to accompany the ...
• Sensitive Children Who Develop Significant Anxiety
  In recent months I happened to work with a number of elementary-age children who had developed ...
• Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life
  A wonderfully executed book which sets out with the lofty objective of organizing and taming our society’s fast-paced lifestyle, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life is a true prize in its class of literature.  It’s ...
• Easy Steps to Reconnect: A Guide for Emotionally Avoidant Dads
  It was torture for Jason when his 13-year-old ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Psychologist Ryan Howes
  Every month we chat with one clinician about everything from the trials and triumphs of being a ...
• Before The World Intruded: Conquering The Past And Creating The Future
  Michele Rosenthal’s memoir, Before The World Intruded, is the story of her struggle with a life-threatening illness and the trauma it created. Rosenthal shares her battle with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), leading us from her diagnosis ...
• How to Overcome Obstacles to Positive Change
  We all are faced at times with trying to persuade others to make behavioral changes, or needing to do so ...
• Adolescent Tragedies and My Teenager
  Once again I am writing about a terrible tragedy. Fifteen dead children. Fifteen lives ...
• Losing Our Moral Compass: The Negative Effects of Overstressing Academic Achievement
  I look at the story headlines in various magazines and newspapers. “Gotta Start ...
• Stress Management Practices: What Works and What Doesn’t
  Stress is unavoidable. This statement is a fact that most people are highly aware ...
• War and Finding Peace
  First responders and veterans are similar in being willing to face danger in order to protect and save others. While they give their all, ...
• 5 Relationship Myths
  Many of us have read the fairy tales and seen the movies. There’s the handsome prince who comes to save the day ...
• Can You Benefit from EMDR Therapy?
  EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy has been declared an effective form of trauma treatment ...
• Being a Grownup When Your Kid Hates You
  This column tells a story based on a composite of real-life situations in therapy to represent both teen and ...
• Anger Antidotes: How Not to Lose Your S#&!
  When you start reading a new book, it’s with a sense of anticipation.  What can I learn from reading this book? Will the author enlighten me or help me see the world in a new ...
• Therapists Spill: The Best Advice I’ve Received On Living a Meaningful Life
  We all want to lead a life with some sort of meaning. What that meaning ...
• When Crisis Becomes Chronic: What to do When Friendships Fade
  It’s a common experience. Something goes wrong in ...
• Parents Gone Wild at Easter Egg Hunt
  The headline on our local paper reads, “A few rotten eggs spoil Easter Hunt.” Parents, who were supposed to ...
• The Escape of Sigmund Freud
  Eighty years old, sick with cancer, and reeling from the Nazis' takeover of his beloved Vienna, Sigmund Freud, in 1936, faced a harsh reality: he had to leave. But where would he go, and how ...
• What You Need to Consider Before Having Kids
  Having a baby is a big decision that requires couples to do some serious self-reflecting ...
• A Princess and Her Garden: A Fable of Awakening and Arrival
  You thought of Aesop when you read the subtitle, didn't you?  The story in this book is not your typical Aesop's fable.  Not by a long shot.  In fact, Aesop's got nothing on the author ...
• How Clinicians Practice Self-Care & 9 Tips for Readers
  Self-care is vital for well-being, and no group knows that better than clinicians. Not only do they help clients learn to take better care ...
• 5 Tips to Increase Your Assertiveness
  “Assertiveness is all about being present in a relationship,” according to Randy Paterson, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author ...
• 3 Relationship Pitfalls When Entering Parenthood & Pointers to Help
  Couples are often surprised just how much a baby changes their relationship and their lives. In fact, ...
• Parenting after Traumatic Events: Ways to Support Children
  One of the most important messages for parents about traumatic experiences—such as car accidents, medical trauma, exposure to violence, ...