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Talking to kids about tragedy

How to Help Your Children Cope with Tragedies and Scary News Stories As a parent, you may feel the need to protect your children from the darkness in the world. It's wise to limit their exposure, especially to scary-sounding news stories on…
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Feeling Stress vs Being Stressed

The Difference Between Feeling Stress and Being Stressed When you feel stress, it moves through you without getting stuck; it informs you of your circumstances (bills piling up, or having a sick kiddo on a day that you have a deadline at work,…
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Calming the Anxiety Storm

How to Effectively Manage Anxiety: Simple Techniques to Calm the Storm One of the most common questions that people have is how to effectively manage anxiety. The nervous thoughts are bad enough, but the physical symptoms only make things worse…
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How to Beat Fear of Relationships and Intimacy

Overcoming Fear of Relationships with Counseling In a previous post, I addressed the topic of Fear of Relationships (Romantic Anxiety). In this post, I will discuss how counseling can help you overcome this fear. Dialectical Behavior Therapy…
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How to Relax and Unwind

Benefits of Learning to Relax People sometimes say that learning to relax can be easier said than done. And frequently, that's because we overthink things. It's rather cyclic. But the cycle of stressful thinking can be broken. Here are some…
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Types of Traumatic Stress

Understanding Acute, Chronic, Immediate, and Delayed Traumatic Stress In case you haven't read my other posts on Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS), let me clarify that going through trauma doesn't mean that someone has a "disorder" such as Post-Traumatic…
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How to Stop Being a Martyr

Stop Setting Yourself on Fire to Keep Everybody Else Warm Have you ever felt like you're constantly putting out fires in your personal or professional life? Do you find yourself sacrificing your well-being and happiness to make others happy?…
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Why do I hate my parents?!

Why Do Teens Often Feel Resentful Toward Their Parents? As a teenager, it's normal to feel irritated, annoyed, angry, or even resentful towards your parents. They can be overprotective, and suspicious and may not understand that you're not…
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