Stress Library

• Better Management of Stress and Its Effects
  The dictionary defines stress as “the importance attached to a thing,” or “the physical pressure, pull, or ...
• Is School a Healthy Place for Your Child?
  It continues to amaze me that contemporary parents who are so concerned ...
• Reiki Healing and Mental Health: What the Research Shows
  Healing touch therapies, the best known being Reiki (pronounced RAY-key), are ancient practices in ...
• Improving Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care: Emotions Rule
  Habilitation Therapy (HT), a comprehensive behavioral approach to caring for people with Alzheimer’s Disease and related ...
• When to Worry About Forgetfulness
  I’m in my mid-50s, and I forget things. Where did I last lay down my car keys? What did I need ...
• Starting a New School Year Following a Summer of Change
  Kids’ backpacks don’t only contain their lunches and homework. If their lives aren’t stable, their cares ...
• Sharing Space: Rooming House, Cooperative or Collective?
  Sharing space can be a wonderful first step to independent living. Whether single or ...
• What is Emotional Abandonment?
  Many people don’t realize that they’re feeling emotionally abandoned or that they did as a child. They may ...
• 10 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Life
  You don’t need an ...
• Joblessness and Symbolic Loss
  We live in a stressful society. We need to keep up with the hustle and bustle of everyday, as ...
• 5 Tips for Handling Workplace Drama
  Workplace drama makes for a very tense environment. From rumor mills to office cliques, many of us have ...
• 7 Mistaken Assumptions Angry People Make
  “I guess I have an anger problem. I lose my temper pretty quick. But it’s not ...
• How to be a Friend Indeed to a Friend in Need
  Friendship is easy when friends ...
• Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
  When I ordered Dr. Shapiro’s book titled Getting Past Your Past, I was expecting a self-help read about how to deal with your past issues with some type of behavioral therapy. However, the subtitle made ...
• 5 Ways to Solve All Your Problems
  Got a problem? Who doesn’t? It might help to know there are five ways, ...
• 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 ...