With a new year now in full swing, forming new habits like daily exercise to go along with your recovery can help you to stay clean and sober as well as reduce the risk of early relapse. Getting exercise each day can help to improve your mental health as well […]
How Being Active Can Help Alleviate Depression
Thinking about fun activities and ways to be active when you are going through depression can feel a bit like someone telling you that you should eat a large and heavy meal when you have the stomach flu. But with depression, forcing yourself to be active can actually help you […]
3 Insightful Questions to Ask Yourself at the End of the Year
With the old year ending and the new year starting, it is a good time to take stock in the year that has passed and a good time to think about what you want for the year to come. Making a New Year’s resolution can be a good thing, but […]
Rebuilding a Relationship with Your Estranged Child
Much of the winter holidays focuses on family and togetherness. Many of the images of the holidays show happy families of parents and grandparents and children all gathered around a menorah or a Christmas tree. But what if you are estranged from your adult child? What if you have grandchildren […]
Coping With Holiday Depression In A Healthy Way
With the passing of Thanksgiving comes the beginning of this holiday season. By the end of this week, the holiday season will be about halfway through. Many people have difficulty during this time of year. There are as many reasons for people to have trouble with the holiday season as […]
Eight Medical Conditions Caused By Excess Stress
According to Dr. Jay Winner the author of Take the Stress Out of Your Life and the director of the Stress Management Program for Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara, CA, “Stress doesn’t only make us feel awful emotionally. It can also exacerbate just about any health condition you can think […]
Six Healthy Ways to Help Your Child Cope with Divorce
It is not difficult to imagine the difficulty that children often have when their parents get divorced. Many parents, even those who both want to be involved in the lives of their children and those who truly love their children more than anything else, sometimes have a difficult time figuring […]
Fighting Childhood Depression
“Depression and anxiety are common, so common, they are kind of normal. Depression and anxiety are treatable. You can get better.” This quote comes from a school psychologist at Byram Hills High School in New York. Cases of depression in school-aged children are becoming more prevalent as more counselors are being […]
Learn to Better Communicate with Your Teenager
Some people will describe teenagers as a species all their own. Teenagers’ bodies are so overrun by the hormones that are coursing through their veins that they can be difficult and irritable. They can be emotionally driven and motivated to keep most adults out of their lives completely. Teenagers can […]
Coping with Disaster
After experiencing or witnessing a disaster, it is perfectly normal to feel anxious or stressed out. After a traumatic incident, your feelings of stress or anxiousness are probably quicker to surface than they were before. While these are normal reactions, the reactions themselves can lead to further anxiety or stress […]
