The largest mental wellness threat confronting the world today is stress. In the face of developing economic uncertainty, stress is raising its ugly head in the form of anxiety. Hence stress management is the need we all must be equipped with. The private and public...
Negative thoughts can be detrimental to your life. Negative thinking is not easy to control as we are usually receptive to our outside world and what is going on around us. Let’s face it, what is happening around us in our environment and the world is usually...
I don’t know about you, but I get excited every time I read the phrases “vicious cycle,” “feedback loop,” and “housing bubble” in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or other mainstream news sources. Have you heard of...
Take a moment to think about how you really feel when you’re angry. Often when we feel anger in a given situation, we want to seek out some sort of resolution. It is not pleasant (for most of us) to feel anger…so we look for a way to bring it to an end. As an example,...
Do you want a better lifestyle? Are you fed up with just going with the flow and doing what ‘has to be done instead of what you want? Have you thought for yourself? I think many people struggle with the daily routine they find themselves caught up in, striving, taking...
Sometimes it seems that blame is all around us. When something negative occurs, often people immediately seek to find who is “at fault.” In a depressive state of mind, clients sometimes blame themselves for feeling the way that they do. Blame game leading to stress...
Learning how to think for yourself can be a bit overwhelming especially when you’re not used to it. I was reading a book about a young girl who was working as a housekeeper for some wealthy people to make ends meet. While cleaning, she’d listen to her boss and his...
Second-guessing plagued me just about every weekend. I wasn’t very good at choosing which social invitations to accept, always worrying that if I said “yes” to something before I knew what all my options were, that I’d somehow miss out on...
Humans are not rational creatures. We are the most complex beings on this planet and what is irrational to us, might be rational to another person. This is why it’s difficult to motivate people without understanding more about who they are and what they want....
