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What does trauma look like?
What does trauma look like? Physiological and psychological trauma can have a profound impact on the brain. When someone experiences trauma it can mean having difficulty in forming and maintaining healthy relationships with others. It is common that a person who has...
How To Be Happier And Feel Better
How To Be Happier And Feel Better Improving your social social choices improves your happiness To be happier and feel better does not come through desire rather through professional help. Yes, there are things that you can do to feel better but eventually you will...
I Can’t Seem To Stop Feeling What I am Feeling
I Can’t Seem To Stop Feeling What I am Feeling Feelings and moods can change when you reprogram your emotional brain. There are those times in life where we try to change but we are unsuccessful in doing so. Why can I not change how I feel on my own? The answer...
How Can I Change My Feelings?
How Can I Change My Feelings? Feelings can change even though you feel they never will. Changing your feelings are a very real possibility but it does take three things to change your feelings, 1. Educating yourself about feelings, cognition, adverse life experiences,...
How Can I Be More Emotionally Resilient?
How Can I Be More Emotionally Resilient? Emotional maturity, resiliency, stability can be achieved through some personal therapeutic work Why Am I Emotionally Unstable or Unavailable? Our emotional stability has a lot to do with emotional resilience which is a...
Why am I so emotionally sensitive?
Why am I so emotionally sensitive? Emotional hurts and ups and downs can be explained and can be resolved. We can feel emotionally sensitive because we have been disappointed, harmed and or neglected in life especially in childhood as childhood is very impactful as it...
Understanding Positive Emotions
Part 3: Understanding Positive Emotions or Emotions That Can Be Life Enhancing For us to better function better in our life, marriage, and work we need to be able to identify emotions. Life Enhancing Emotions We can now observe the opposites to these emotions: ...
What Are The Basic Emotions?
Negative Emotions - Part 2 Basic emotions There are numerous theories as to how many basic emotions we have such as: theory by Paul Ekman, The James-Lange Theory of Emotion, The Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion, Schachter-Singer Theory, Richard Lazarus’ Cognitive...
Understanding Emotions
What am I feeling? What do these feelings mean? First steps to understanding your emotions - Part 1 Are emotions and feelings the same? There are many words to describe how we feel but feelings are not the same as emotions. Feelings can be described as emotions...
Practicing Gratitude
More and more people are beginning to realize the power of practicing gratitude. There have been a number of studies researched, performed and published in the last two decades by such prestigious institutions such as Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford. Though the practice of gratitude
Healing From Grief
Steps to recovering from grief Defining Grief Grief is defined by Merriam-Webster “as deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement”. Some other words that that correlate with grief are affliction, anguish, heartache, sorrow, woe, and heartbreak....
How To Get Free Of Stress
There are numerous things that cause stress, such as situations and circumstances that are perceived or actual pressures. Though stress is often perceived as external but it is also internal. Internal stress is perceived stress and which is the result of our past and probably that of our childhood. Negative external stressors can include work schedules, performance demands, marital difficulties, a troubled child, a family sickness, change of a job, and much more. Positive external stressors can include getting married, going to school, receiving a…
What Are The Symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder?
PTSD symptoms are categorized in the DSM-V into four major symptoms which are Flashbacks, Hypervigilance, Negative thoughts, and Avoidance of people, places or things. Most other symptoms of Post-traumatic stress can fit into these four major areas but they can often look different from person to person, age to age and gender to gender. Below is a list of possible PTSD symptoms that a person can experience, though some of these symptoms can be the result of other medical complications or be intertwined. It is best when looking at these various…
Understanding and Treating Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Emergency wards in hospitals at times are occupied by those who think they are having a heart attack, intestinal issues, severe abdominal pains, or even a stroke when in actuality they are having a panic attack. PTSD can be debilitating if not treated immediately. Curing PTSD is more important than masking it. Yes, curing Post-traumatic stress can be a reality for you!
How does Post-traumatic Stress Disorder develop? Post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD develops when a shocking, upsetting, or terrifying event occurs that you have witnessed…
Understanding Anger
Anger is a basic human emotion that we all experience. Anger can be defined as experiencing displeasure in something or someone deemed to be a threat, harmful or evil. Anger is part of what is called the fight mechanism in our body which is often caused by anxiety when there is a perceived threat to self, to ones rights, possessions or moral and ethical values. Anger is aroused by anxiety because of a perceived threat to one’s self, possessions, rights, or values. We can experience anger when we feel blocked or prevented from saying or doing…
Defeating Depression Naturally
Defeating Depression Naturally Written by James Miklos, MCC, R.P. There have been numerous studies in recent years where Omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish, can naturally ease or possibly eliminate depression. Past studies have revealed that people who lived in...
Moving Beyond Depression
Introduction Do you feel blue this time of year? Christmas time and through the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere tends to be when we have the least amount of good sunlight, we eat lots of sugar, drink alcohol, eat processed foods, stress over numerous...
Men Die Earlier and Suffer More
When it comes to men’s’ health issues, both men and women are equally apathetic. A radical feminist joke goes like this, “Why do men die earlier than women? Because they deserve it!” Some of you reading this might be quietly say, “Yah, I agree!” As odd as it may...
Getting Unstuck!
Most of us at some point in our lives will feel stuck. We can feel stuck in our careers, stuck in personal development, stuck spiritually, stuck mentally and emotionally, and even stuck in our physical health. First, let me say that there are no magic pills, words or...
How Addictions Are Formed
Addictions are created when a desired feeling and behaviour become fixated together. For example, if the feeling of being a winner has become fixated with the behavior of gambling, the person gambles in order to feel like a winner. Even when he loses, the fixation...
Letting Go of Our Expectations
In life we all face the question, ‘Why do bad things happen to good or innocent people?’ This question can be answered in a lengthy philosophical and theological explanation but generally will not provide the emotional resolution we need. After...
