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Signs of Social Anxiety Disorder: Do You Fit on this List?
Jennifer is a 39-year-old medical doctor who has a successful practice and a loving family. Even though she has had many successes in life, she often doubts that others will accept her and ends up experiencing significant anxiety whenever she is in a social setting. For example, she arrives at church right before the sermon in order to avoid the awkward time of “meet and greet.” If she has party to attend, she makes sure that she has a glass of wine in order to take the edge off of her nerves. On the other hand, she may avoid the party [...]
How Do I Know If I Have Anxiety Symptoms? What Should I Do?
Why are so many Americans plagued with anxiety symptoms? Why are the statistics of anxiety so much higher in America compared to worldwide figures? My hypothesis is that here in America, we glamorize busyness. We put such an emphasis on living to work instead of working to live. It is completely countercultural to many other places in the world, where they value time spent with friends and family over time spent at work making money. Americans are famous for vacationing far less than our global counterparts, and allowing millions of dollars per year in vacation time to go unused. Additionally, we [...]
How Life Coaching Services Can Transform Your Outlook and Perspective
Life coaching can transform your outlook and perspective by encouraging the growth of the mindset of Christ. The Scripture that expounds on this topic is below: “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature [...]
What is Trauma Informed Care and Who Would Benefit from it?
There are many individuals who have faced experiences in life that qualify as a “traumatic event.” Trauma can be described as a physiological and psychological wound. Trauma is a reaction to a perceived or real threat to one’s life or directly witnessing the death or serious harm toward another individual. The process and exposure to trauma often feels like being knocked off your feet. It can take a while to get to the root of the trauma. Awareness of one’s feelings, reactions, and recovery are essential to the process of interacting with others from a Trauma Informed Care approach. What is Trauma [...]
15 Helpful Bible Verses on Forgiveness
The topic of forgiveness has been discussed at length across the globe, throughout history, and among several different religions and philosophies. However, there is one specific belief system in which the concept of forgiveness encompasses a depth and magnitude unlike any other in all of the world and that is Biblical Christianity. The concept of forgiveness is mentioned in the bible at least 75 times throughout the Old and New Testaments. Depending on which translation you use, you may see words like “remission” used in place of the word “forgiveness.” There are different themes in the Word concerning this concept of [...]
The Benefits of Hiring an Executive Coach
In the video above, I talk about the tangible and intangible benefits of hiring an executive coach. Tangible Benefits of Hiring an Executive Coach Financial Return A recent study cited in an article on the Association for Talent Development reported that the return on investment for executive coaching is 689 percent. This ROI of 689 percent includes the upfront financial costs of coaching and the opportunity cost associated with the decision to start coaching. Another research study found that for every dollar invested in Executive Coaching, there was return of 4 to 8 dollars. Financially, this suggests a better ROI (return [...]
Dealing with Anger: Does Getting Angry Make Me a Bad Person?
There seems to be a common thread among the majority of clients I see – they tend to work against their emotions, instead of knowing how to work with them. For whatever reason, it is a prevalent belief that the “negative” emotions (not bad, just the direction of the emotion taking us down rather than up) are something to either ignore, stuff, suppress, medicate or be afraid of. Where did this belief originate? I’m not sure, but if you know the answer, please let me know! I do know that especially among those of us with faith in God, we tend [...]
3 Steps to Starting Your Day Well with a Morning Routine
It is difficult sometimes to feel energized in the morning. Sometimes, the daily repetitive routines of our lives make us feel less energetic and less enthusiastic about our morning routine. If you are like me and you focus on your most important personal goals in the middle or the later part of the day, then mornings can feel like a dull transition period before the exciting part of the day begins. The truth is our mornings are just as sacred to the Lord as our afternoons and evenings. Inviting the Lord into the start of your day can give you [...]
Emotional Abuse: Signs and What To Do
As a counselor, the vast majority of clients I see have either endured or perpetrated some type of emotional abuse throughout their lifetime. Emotional abuse is quite pervasive, and it is a fairly new topic to be discussed as generations prior would not have even considered the effects of their words or actions qualifying as abusive. I do want to differentiate right away between someone being an emotional abuser, and someone saying or doing emotionally abusive things. An abuser will perpetually hurt, undermine, or seek to gain a manipulative upper hand over others – whereas the majority of people will have [...]