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- Statements Frequently Made by Abusers, Narcissists, or other such Psychopaths
- Ask Your Dad These 5 Questions On Fathers Day
- Shame Based Parenting: A Narcissist's Specialty
- 15 Ways to Conquer Anxeity Without Stress Eating
- The 10 Most Toxic Forms of Control in Relationships
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Finding the Root Cause of Overeating
What causes overeating to the point of damaging their body and limiting their quality and length of life? Most adults are aware that calories in minus calories burned dictates whether pounds......
How to Support Yourself When Your Emotions Don’t
Our emotions are incredibly valuable. They are smart messengers. Because they provide us with all sorts of vital information: They tell us when we need to set a stronger boundary.......
Feeling Alone is Physically Painful
I remember coming home from the grocery store recently having been thrilled to leave the...
Chronic Illness? Early Symptom Management Is Important
“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”J. K. Rowling In 2002 after being diagnosed with fibromyalgia I spent a month at the Fibromyalgia......
A Writing Prompt to Do Daily
Our lives are made up of moments. There are the small moments: Waking up, and seeing the sun color your bedroom. Making coffee. Taking a walk. Laughing at a joke.......
Modern People, Ingrained Narcissism
Sometimes an article takes less than the time of a nice hot shower and virtually writes itself....
Women who Enable Paedophiles
‘There must have been blood’, my friend said sadly. ‘My mother must have known her boyfriend raped...
Can’t Find Your Passion? Ask Yourself These Questions
Like many Millennials, I was told I could become whatever I wanted to be when I grew up. Before the age of ten I cycled through dreams of acting, singing,......
Right Is Right
“Don’t get me wrong, And you can speak your mind, But not on my time” Billy Joel They will tell you how to think, they will tell you how to......
Today I Love Swimming Hard
Today I love swimming hard, even though I’m not very good at it. I love that I swam 1200 quarter meters and I love how much more exciting that sounds......
When You Feel Defective and Deficient for Struggling with Anxiety
You’re struggling with anxiety. Maybe you had your first panic attack when you were in high school while taking a final. Maybe you had a panic attack in college while......
Book Review: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques
Managing anxiety symptoms with medication can be effective, but is not always a great long-term solution. Anxiety happens for a variety of reasons. It may be experienced when there are......
Ask Your Dad These 5 Questions On Fathers Day
Every human being has a deeply held need to feel known. Your Father...
How to Be a SuperDad
Fathering a child is easy. A night of passion and you’re done. But being a real dad, a hero to your kids and a “manly man” to yourself, requires stepping......
Feeling Orphaned: What To Do When Parents Don’t Meet Your Emotional Needs
The societal belief is that children and parents should accept each other for who they are “no...
A Father’s Gift That Keeps Giving Throughout the Years
Few fathers or father figures would disagree that the real gifts of Father’s Day are their children- whom they love, carry, care for, play with, worry about, mentor, affirm, argue......
15 Ways to Conquer Anxiety Without Stress Eating
After extensively dieting and exercising for months, Amanda was devastated to discover that she hadn’t lost a single pound. Her immediate discouragement was overwhelming, and all she wanted to do......
When my Mental Illness Convinces Me No One Can Understand My Pain
Since I have several mental illnesses, my problem often feels very specific. I struggle with the unique combination of Bipolar Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. How many......
Why Happiness Is Physical
Most people don’t have to be convinced that exercise is good for them or their mood. What they may have to be convinced of – especially if they don’t......
Speaking Up
I did something Sunday evening I never imagined I would do – I read in front of a crowded coffee/ wine shop from my memoir that I had written about......
Gout Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia
A new study finds that gout is associated with a 17 to 20 percent higher risk of dementia in the elderly. A common condition, gout is caused by deposits of...
Middle-Aged Female Early Risers May Have Less Risk of Depression
Middle-aged and older women who are naturally early to bed and early to rise may be less likely to develop depression, according to a new study published in the Journal...
Impostor Syndrome Seems to Affects Men and Women Differently
A new study has found that men and women with impostor syndrome cope with accountability and react to negative feedback in different ways. If men who see themselves as impostors...
Brain Matures Faster With Early Childhood Stress
A new study has discovered that stress in early childhood leads to faster maturation of certain brain regions during adolescence. In contrast, stress experienced later in life leads to slower...
Mindfulness May Ease Pain of Social Rejection
Mindfulness can help ease the pain of social rejection, according to a new study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Mindfulness is the ability to focus on...
Depression, Anxiety Track Disease Activity in Early Arthritis
Rates of anxiety and depression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis correlate with measures of the disease’s activity over the first year following diagnosis, according to new research. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...
