Category: Depression and Anxiety
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Sincere vs. Empty Apologies: Impact on Healing and Hurt
Some apologies promote healing and forgiveness. Other apologies are self-serving, insincere, empty, and promote anger, resentment, and further hurt. Empty apologies that don’t name the wrongs committed do not promote healing and forgiveness. “I’m sorry you feel bad about what I did,” ” I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it,” or “I’m sorry you feel that…
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Forgiveness: A Personal Choice for Healing or Protection
Forgiving is a complicated process. For some, it’s a necessary step to achieve emotional healing. For others, attempting forgiveness is emotionally damaging. Whatever the degree of the abuse, neglect, or betrayal one has suffered, whether to forgive or not is a personal decision. Forgiving what has happened to you is not saying “I forgive you”…
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Understanding and Overcoming the Triggers of Social Anxiety
Social anxiety can be paralyzing. Some people suffer from social anxieties due to childhood trauma, low self-esteem, or peer pressure. Social situations can trigger fears of rejection, humiliation, and stress. Shyness also causes anxiety by triggering comparison to others and fear of failure at succeeding at social expectations. Physical symptoms like shaking, sweating, becoming speechless,…
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Overcoming New Year’s Blues with an Attitude Adjustment
The New Year’s blues can hit hard, despite the partying and hopes for a fresh start in the new year. Realizing the losses and disappointments at year’s end causes sadness. An attitude adjustment can ease the pain Societal expectations to spend New Year’s Eve doing something exciting and fantastic can cause intense pressure and stress. …
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Set Limits to Reduce Holiday Stress and Enjoy the Season
Holiday stress may feel like an unavoidable force that you have no control over. However, that is false. Setting boundaries, knowing your emotional, physical, and financial limits can result in a calmer and ultimately more enjoyable holiday season. One of the saddest parts of the joyous holiday season is many people become so busy and…
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How to Cope with Missing Someone After a Relationship Ends
What does missing someone feel like? What does it say about the attachment you had when you miss someone? How to stop missing a friend, family member, or lover if the relationship is over? Missing someone indicates you experienced an emotional attachment that had deep significance for you. We miss people with whom we built…
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Millennials Face Limits but Hold Endless Potential for Change
Millennials admit to exhibiting self-limiting traits that define their generation. They identify too many choices, too many distractions, difficulty with commitment, self-absorption, and being unfocused as common obstacles to their success and happiness. However, their potential to improve what’s wrong in the world is limitless. They just have to commit to caring and getting involved.…
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Millennials Struggle with Finances, Independence, and Boundaries
Millennials feel discouraged about their futures. For financial reasons, many of them are still living at home with their parents. They are desperately discouraged about whether the job market, wages, or the political direction of our government will ever help them achieve financial independence. Additionally, privacy and boundaries issues while living at home is a…
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Stop Letting COVID Fear Hold You Back—Reclaim Your Life
COVID isn’t gone, however, it’s time to stop isolating and avoiding your life. We have learned how to protect ourselves, and it’s time to resume or reinvent your life. It’s time to shake off the COVID fear and stop using the pandemic to hide. In March of 2020, our world as we knew it was…
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Why People Lie: Fear, Control, or Low Self-Esteem?
What causes people to lie? Is it a character flaw, a fear-based attempt to control, or low self-esteem? Can a liar change? The most common reason people lie is to protect themselves from embarrassment, rejection, or punishment. Most people who lie do not intend to damage others. Most people feel guilty about lying but are…