Articles on Self-Help - Page 2
Back to School Blues: 9 Ways to Help Your Tween Go Back to School with Ease
It’s almost that time again…the transition to a new school year. This can be a time of joy and excitement for some and it can also be a time...
How to Start Making Plans When You’re Recovering from Depression
“You can never plan the future by the past.” – Edmund Burke I know a little bit about being depressed, having worked hard together with my psychotherapist to overcome...
Understanding the Connection Between Going Back to School and Adolescent Anxiety
As summer winds down and returning to school becomes an unavoidable reality, many teenagers are experiencing a rush of varied emotions. Some teens enjoy school and are eager to...
How Your Smartphone Is Ruining Your Health
Using our smartphones everyday has become a habit of our everyday lives much like brushing our teeth. What we fail to realize is the grave danger our gadgets can...
What to Do When You Get Unexpected Bad News
“The bad news is nothing lasts forever. The good news is nothing lasts forever.” – J. Cole No one can predict when they’ll receive bad news. It could be...
Healing through the Lens: Using Photography to Shift Perspective and Increase Self Awareness
It is nearly a decade ago that I first picked up a camera, that I saw for the first time my world view through a fresh perspective. I noticed...
What Mothering Has Taught Me: Women Share More Life-Changing Lessons
Motherhood shifts your entire life — often your entire being. Now your days are different. Now your hours are no longer your own. Now you share your life with...
Busyness: The New Status Symbol
Decades ago, success was measured by wealth and leisure. The number of vacations you took. Where you went. How you spent that time. The number of fancy cars inside...
Book Review: 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Workbook
Our society continues to be obsessed with body image and body shaming. Young girls and boys are placed at a disadvantage if they feel they do not measure up,...
What Mothering Has Taught Me: Women Share Life-Changing Lessons
Motherhood is many emotions and adventures. It is laughter and tears—sometimes simultaneously. It is watching with wonder as your child goes from holding their head up for several seconds...
Book Review: Awkward
We all have awkward moments, of course. The unintentionally insulting blurt. The joke that lands like a lead balloon. The forgotten name in the midst of introductions. But in...
How to Effectively Deal with Self-Defeating Thoughts
We usually don’t realize we have them and yet they are powerful enough to dictate our decisions. They are powerful enough to steer our lives in specific directions, directions...
Book Review: List Your Self
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tzu How well do you know yourself? It is safe to assume that most would...
Book Review: The Transformative Power of Ten Minutes
How much can we accomplish in ten minutes? Perhaps we can answer a few emails, or load the dishwasher, but could it really be enough time to do something to...
Why We Fear Death and How to Integrate It into Our Lives
From our first breath in this lifetime until the split second the heart clock stops ticking away the moments of our incarnation, we are on call to this concept...
