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Factors that Increase or Suppress Death Anxiety

…food, drugs and alcohol, that directly or indirectly help people to avoid experiencing death anxiety. Similarly, repetitive behaviors, routines, and compulsive work patterns numb a person’s sensitivity to painful feelings and lend an air of certainty and permanence to life. Obsessive thinking and rituals of avoidance (OCD) temporarily reduce death fears, yet they eventually become habitual and arouse even more anxiety. Inwardness. Inwardness refe…

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Taking Advantage of Summertime to Get to Know Your Child

…etting to know them for who they are. If it’s too hard to get them to commit, find them in their spare time and suggest something as simple as taking a walk together. It may be difficult, but this time together is essential to getting to know your children, which is necessary to build a relationship with them based on authentic interaction rather than assumptions made from a distance. And while this type of relationship is valuable to you personal…

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MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLOR TRAINING COURSE

…nflicts, listen with empathy, and speak assertively. 5. Approaches to help couples resolve specific issues: infidelity, household duties, addiction, and others; understanding how childhood experiences affect adult life and the couple relationship. Text and Materials: Effective Counseling Skills: the practical wording of therapeutic statements and processes by Daniel Keeran, MSW (inluded in tuition). Qualifying Examination for Professional Counseli…

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Dr. Pat Love on Parenting

…t of love and what it means to be loving. She discusses values in a loving relationship and offers tactile tips for couples on improving the quality of their relationships. Dr. Love also addresses the importance of equality in a relationship, sexuality, and what she has learned from her years as a couples’ therapist. Shifting her focus to parenting, Dr. Love offers her perspective on how to raise emotionally healthy children. “Parenting is simply…

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Managing Holiday Loneliness with Self-Compassion

…dable cause. For example, you may feel disappointed about work, or about a relationship that is not going well. Self-care can range from letting disappointment pass to making plans to get support from therapy for the situation you are in. You may feel sad that an important relationship is not how you want it to be. We live in a culture that is quick to shame and blame those who don’t have their ‘act together.’ Self-criticism is hard to overcome wi…

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The Key to Healthy Relationships: It’s All in Your Head

…n the flip side, a person who seeks to repair old ruptures through current relationships runs the risk of hurting these relationships. For example, a father who felt unsupported in his athletic accomplishments as a child may compensate with his own children by placing excessive pressure on their performance in sports. What the father deems as the support he never got, his children may experience as the pressure they never wanted. By having the cap…

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Do You Confuse Admiration with Love? Tales of a Covert Narcissist

…and 3 in Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. Develop more equality in your relationship – strive to be independent, to say your opinions, don’t hold back your feelings and thoughts, be an equal contributor to the relationship. Guard against slipping into a polarized position, taking on the parent (Overt Narcissistic) role or the child (Covert Narcissistic) role in your relationship. Realize that every child needs to develop primary self-love and s…

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6 Tips For Dealing With Your Anger

…we’re Curious, Open, Accepting, and Loving toward ourselves and what we’re experiencing, even when it feels unacceptable to us. As relationship expert and educator Dr. Pat Love puts it, we can always “feel the feeling, but do the right thing.” 3. Avoid building a case. Allowing ourselves to acknowledge and accept our anger doesn’t mean we should get carried away in the details or an effort to rationalize what we’re feeling. Remember, an angry feel…

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How to Not Feel Let Down This Valentine’s Day

…e thoughts only serve the purpose of creating conflict and distance in our relationships. Being sensitive to our partner’s interests and desires and attuning to what makes them feel loved is the key to being generous in our relationships 4. Break the routine. If special occasions, holidays and vacations tell us one thing, it’s that we should be taking more time in our daily lives to enjoy each other. Routines are so easy to slip into. They make us…

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Getting the Love You Want

…ange our romantic destiny and enjoy closer, healthier, and more fulfilling relationships. Understanding and changing unhealthy relationship habits involves looking into our past. The first thing we can do is explore our attachment history. The attachments we experience at the start of our lives serve as models for how we expect to be treated. Our early attachment patterns help establish how we feel about ourselves as well as how we think we have t…

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