STRESSED OUT, ZONED OUT, FREAKED OUT The number of people seeking help for anxiety is rising rapidly! According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, “Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population every…
Do you talk with God? If you don’t that question may seem strange to you. Or perhaps you talk at God with no real sense that he hears or will respond. It’s easy to think, since we can’t see or touch God, that He isn’t a real person, rather some unknown and unknowable distant entity. Even believers sometimes…
Facing the loss of a loved family member or friend can be one of the hardest experiences to go through. Grief is a natural response to loss. It is the suffering that you feel when you have lost someone you love. You can experience all different kinds of emotions such as shock, anger, disbelief, guilt,…
START THE NEW YEAR OFF RIGHT Another New Year is upon us. Do you want this year to be a year of victory over negative thoughts and feelings? Do you wish for healing of broken relationships? You CAN be healed of those challenges, and many more. How? you ask. The answer is not a “how”…
SETTING UP YOUR DAY FOR SUCCESS We humans generally seem to have a low tolerance for the inevitable valleys, challenges, and changes of life. Don’t you agree? Our lives can be 98 percent good, but we zero in a laser-like focus on the 2% not-so-good. That’s because the human brain is wired to look for…
If we have a home with a yard we may want to cut away the underbrush when bushes are overgrown and choking off new life. We cut back the trees at the end of the summer to allow a fuller expression of their beauty the next year. We do a clean sweep of the lawn…
The philosopher Nietzsche famously said, “[h]e who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” Today, we see a growing sense of unhappiness, boredom, depression, loneliness and, increasingly, suicide. Several research studies showed a connection between retirement and early death. Many parents, especially the stay-at-home parent, suffer depression when their children leave home…
The blog this week deals with devastation, loss, and ways to cope and recover. After the horrific damage caused by this year’s hurricane season, many find their homes ravaged or completely destroyed, pets lost or knee deep in wreckage that may take years to repair. How do we cope with such loss? How do we…
I read an article about a 15 year old girl in Pensilvania who killed herself this week. She was the victim of bullying at school. The family described her as a nice, care girl. However, the bullying was severe enough to cause her to take her own life. We need to remember that bullying is…
In light of more terrorist attacks on London and Pairs and especially the attack on the concert in Manchester, England, it makes sense to remind parents how children and teenagers are being impacted. I have been seeing more and more teenagers who are complaining of anxiety and depression. Many of these teenagers are also afraid…