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Understanding Anger: 5 Tips for Anger Management
Do you find yourself struggling against frequent, overwhelming feelings of rage? Do you often exhibit aggressive behavior when you feel upset or provoked? Are your relationships sometimes hindered by your inability to control your anger? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you most likely struggle with anger management. Anger is defined as a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility. It’s a normal, healthy feeling that God created us with. But when it becomes frequently uncontrollable and all-consuming, that’s when it may be time to seek outside help. In this article, we’re going to unpack what the Bible [...]
The Most Important Step in Dealing with Anger
It's amazing to think about how many different ways one emotion can manifest itself. Anger can show up in so many ways in our lives. For some, dealing with anger looks like screaming and ranting, while for others anger is a quiet seething that they keep hidden beneath the surface. No matter how It appears, anger is an emotion that many of us feel. Often, we see the symptoms or the consequences of our anger without ever dealing with the problem that exists in our hearts. If we take some time to look at and address the anger in our lives, [...]
When Change Feels Hard
Change is an inevitable part of life. For some, change is exciting, offering a new adventure or perspective. Others struggle more with the idea of change. Sometimes people struggle with feelings of anxiety, depression, and loneliness when they face a change. While it may be a challenge, walking through change is possible. The difficulty of change. When life is going along without any changes, we often feel stable and secure. We understand what is expected, making it easier to function. When change comes into play, that sense of stability and security shifts. Suddenly, we are facing situations where things are no [...]
Tips for Helping Someone Process Childhood Trauma
Children are often overlooked when they face various traumatic events. People might assume that they do not understand what has happened or they will get over it more easily because of their age, but childhood trauma can affect children in a variety of ways and for an exceptionally long time – does not discriminate. Children can be traumatized by a variety of things: Bullying Accident involvement/observation Natural disasters Community violence Poor living conditions/neglect Physical and emotional abuse Stress caused by poverty Being separated from a parent or caregiver Having their world rocked in some way – move, loss of a pet, [...]
Seasonal Affective Disorder Treatment Options
Does your mood seem to shift with the calendar, causing you to feel “down” more than usual during the winter months? Do shorter days and gloomy weather seem to zap your energy and make you feel blue? If so, you may be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder. What is Seasonal Affective Disorder? Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression characterized by a recurring seasonal pattern that comes and goes at the same time each year. Symptoms usually begin and end when the seasons change. Typically, you start feeling “down” as the days get shorter in late fall or early [...]
Coming to Know the Presence of Beauty
As women, our sense of self-worth can be tied to our sense of beauty. Beauty is an undercurrent of desire that most of us just can’t get our hands on. Fleeting it is. Why does beauty flee? Run away? Refuse to stay? And why do we keep purchasing and purchasing and purchasing – begging beauty to stay – and it does not? Let’s see if we can use beauty to expand our sense of self-worth, and expand our sense of beauty (unpurchased). Definitions. One way I like to define self-worth is "Is it (x, y, or z) worth it to you (self)?" Many [...]
Recognizing Financial, Mental, and Emotional Abuse
And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all. – 1 Thessalonians 5:14 Abuse is a horrible situation. The very word abuse may trigger shudders in you. Yet it is often a subtle situation as well. It’s not all hiding bruises or screaming matches. Many people experience emotional abuse, rather than physical abuse. Learning how to recognize the signs of abuse is important. If you can recognize toxic behaviors and abusive tendencies, you will be better able to help comfort those who are healing from abuse. You will also [...]
7 Ways to Manage Stress with Healthy Coping Mechanisms
Stress has a deceptive way of masquerading. It lurks behind fatigue. It shadows symptoms of illness. It merges with anxiety and the inability to quell panic. We all struggle with stressors in life, but not all stressors have to win the war of our spiritual, mental, or physical health. If you're looking for healthy ways to manage stress, this article is for you. Developing healthy coping mechanisms for stress is how we expose it for what it is – the enemy of balanced, good health. Stress is pretty much anything that causes tension, and its source may come from within or from [...]
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans and Possible Treatment
Every few days a new veteran is created here in the United States and as each veteran comes home, we see increases in suicides, family dysfunction, depression, anger, and maladjustment to society. Many of these things are attributed to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. Even those who did not directly see combat might have PTSD, due to their interaction with those who have. These are sons and daughters, our fathers and our mothers, aunts and uncles, nieces, and nephews, all suffering due to lack of diagnosis or even receiving enough training to recognize what is happening to them, why they are [...]