Is Grief Affecting Your Health? The short answer is, “Yes.” Grief is a stress reaction and, if you are grieving, you know that it takes a lot out of you, physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. Emotions are drivers of stress. Lower energy emotions like anxiety, anger, frustration, sadness, or hopelessness provide the fuel for […]
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Self-Care Stress Relief, Episode 2. Meet three author-experts that will help you live your best life! Join us for a powerful conversation with the authors of The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care, 25 Tools for Stress Relief. Meet the inspirational leaders who contribute stress relief tools prior to our book launch on 11/11/2020. Stress
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Self-Care Stress Relief, Episode 1. Meet three author-experts that will help you live your best life! Join us for a powerful conversation with the authors of The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care, 25 Tools for Stress Relief. Meet the inspirational leaders who contribute stress relief tools prior to our book launch on 11/11/2020. Stress
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Forgiveness is something we learn we should do, yet sometimes it is difficult. We may want to forgive but do not feel we are ready to do so. Resentment can literally feel dense and heavy as a sensation in the body. It may feel as if it is stuck or stagnant. You may feel it,
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Unexpected news can be positive or negative, depending upon its nature, and whether it’s the news we want. Unexpected news arrives when we’re least ready, takes us by surprise, and asks us to accommodate to change we didn’t ask for and may not want. In 50 years as a psychotherapist, I’ve found most people don’t
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Shame 200: How Coping with Shame Contributes to Overall Wellbeing. Late joining this series? Catch up on Part 1 and Part 2! Welcome to the conclusion of the 3-part series on shame. As you may have guessed after reading Parts 1 and 2, that is, “Shame 101 and Shame 102,” like all emotions, shame just
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Life is full of ups and downs, much like a roller coaster. Some people love the adventure and the feeling of the stomach-dropping with the excitements of each curve and dip. But some people clutch the safety rail tightly, screaming that they want to get off or are about to throw up. What is the
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Shame 102: Using Creativity to Help Release Shame. Part 2 of a 3-Part blog series. Late joining this series? Catch up on Part 1! In Part 1, we deconstructed the definition of shame and introduced a three-step process to help us begin to unload the heavy-weight of shame. In Part 2, we will explore using
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As a Marriage and Family Therapist more than 40 years ago, I was invited to participate in a conference on Domestic Violence. Without the internet and eager to network, I accepted. I knew little about Domestic Violence and had not encountered it as a therapist. Pioneers in the Domestic Violence Awareness movement, such as Lenore
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Grief affects us on the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social levels. What’s difficult for most people are the feelings associated with grief. No one wants to feel sadness, anger, fear, guilt, loneliness, despair, frustration, resentment, bitterness, hopelessness. These feelings stem from the deep sense of abandonment we feel when we experience loss. We tend
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