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Anger is a natural God-given emotion but it can at times get the best of us. It can be an essential device for basic survival, but we need to know how to recognize it so we can learn to convey it in a more appropriate manner than angry outbursts. Anger can be expressed in a healthy or in an unhealthy way. A study done in 1997 showed that 58 per cent of anger occurances included shouting as a form of expressing emotion and fewer than 10 per cent were made up of some form of physical aggression. Related Article Tags: , , ,
Those numbers measure the percentage of teenagers who regularly use illegal drugs of some type. Just within the last month, 50 percent of teens report drinking alcohol with 37 percent saying they had been drunk on at least one occasion. Alcohol kills 5 times more teenagers than any other drug which are mostly from accidents. Related Article Tags: , , , , , ,
Your family probably already knows you have a drug addiction. If they don't, admitting your dependence to them is a crucial step towards recovery. Sit them down and be as honest with them as you have been with yourself. It probably won't be fun and it most likely won't be pretty, but as soon as you have that off of your chest, you'll be free to start pursuing your goal of being drug-free. Related Article Tags: , , , , , ,
When bad things happen to you, try to focus on the positive things that can come of it. Make time for yourself to recite your positive affirmations. Work hard on focusing on the positives of life. When you're overwhelmed, think, "I'm still alive and I need to be thankful for that." Related Article Tags: , , , , , ,
What are you giving up of yourself to protect yourself from ending up alone? What do you believe will happen in your relationships if you take care of yourself instead of take care of others? Related Article Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Do you find yourself wanting a partner yet you keep running into rejection over and over again? In this article, discover a likely reason for this rejection. Related Article Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Communication between partners often gets confusing, and there is a very good reason for this. Most of the time, the words we use have far less impact than the energy behind the words. Therefore, what you say is often not what the other person hears. Related Article Tags: , , , ,
Are you constantly feeling alone and empty inside? Are you often seeking to get love, attention, approval, compassion and connection with others? You might be love-addicted. Discover how to begin healing love-addiction in this article. Related Article Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Do you feel empty and alone inside? Are you seeking a partner to fill this, or are you considering leaving your marriage to hopefully feel intimate with someone else? First, learn how to become intimate with yourself. Related Article Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Are you in an unhappy relationship? Do you believe that your unhappiness is caused by your partner? Discover how you might be causing your own unhappiness and what you can do about it. Related Article Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Are you or your partner having an emotional affair or are each of you vulnerable to emotional infidelity? Emotional infidelity occurs when you or your partner become emotionally connected with someone outside your relationship, either in person or on the Internet. Discover what creates this vulnerability and what you can do about it. Related Article Tags: , , , , ,
Relationships with other people can often play the role of "bread and butter" in a person's life. As social creatures, human beings are drawn to one another for a variety of biological and psychological reasons. It is an integral component of a person's psychological development and emotional stability. However, the benefits are not entirely absolute. It is possible for people with extreme social misgivings, such as loners and hermits, to live without too much damage to their mental health. The isolation gets to you after a while, but there's nothing really too fractured up there. Related Article Tags: , ,
The effects of drug addiction are far reaching and go way beyond just affecting the life of the addict. Drug addiction has an effect on families, companies, schools, and friendships. It also has an effect on the body of the addict and could possibly affect the health of those around the addict. Related Article Tags: , , ,
(This is Part 1 of a 5-part series on addiction).
Just about everyone in our society is addicted to something. Addictions can take many forms:
SUBSTANCE ADDICTIONS: addiction to alcohol, recreational drugs, prescription meds, caffeine, nicotine, food, sugar, carbohydrates.
PROCESS ADDICTIONS: addiction to love, connection, caretaking, anger, resistance, withdrawal, and to activities such as... Related Article Tags: , , , , , ,
Our culture suffers from soul loss. It is rare to know someone who responds and lives from wholeness instead of from his past's woundedness. If a person has voids from soul loss, these voids act as magnets filling up with any energy to get whole. Extracting negative energies, bringing back the lost soul energy, and then learning how to stay whole will heal the individual, restore personal power and begin to restore wholeness in our society too. Related Article Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
A book review of Deceptive Diagnois: When Sin is Called Sickness. The authors share their views on how the church and society have replaced man's sinful behavior with psychological terms. Related Article Tags: , , , , ,
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