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Holiday Stress: Not Very Merry
The American Psychological Association conducted a study in 2006 and found that while 78% of respondents reported feeling often happy around the holidays, about two-thirds sometimes or often felt stressed and fatigued. Continue reading
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Tagged anger, anxiety, children, conflict, family, feelings, health, holiday blues, holiday stress, holidays, mental health, peace, recovery, relationships, resilience, stress, trauma, work, worry
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9/11 Still an Issue a Decade Later
Can you imagine that helping professionals and other caring witnesses are still suffering trauma responses a decade after the 9/11 tragedy? That certainly speaks to how insidious the effects of vicarious trauma can be! It also demonstrates a saddening lack of compassion and absence of resources for our heroes. Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, calm, conflict, death, health, heroes, mental health, Post Traumatic Stress, recovery, rescue, trauma, vicarious trauma, victims
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Virtual Vexation: Is Social Media Endangering Your Health?
Last week, I shut down my computer, packed a small bag and headed for the mountains to hang with my dear friends and let my brain stop aching. I felt like I was coming down from a serious binge and … Continue reading
The Mad Ramblings of a Pedestal Professional
When I come into the door after a long day at the office, I am emotionally inverted. I feel as though my feelings have been sucked into a vacuum and I can hardly connect with my own family who needs my attention as well. Sometimes I feel numb. Sometimes I think that if one more person asks one more thing of me I will scream. Continue reading
Posted in Necessary Conversations, Second-Hand Shock, Uncategorized
Tagged anxiety, coach, conflict, health, heroes, mental health, Post Traumatic Stress, trauma, vicarious trauma, work
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Stress andTrauma: Second-Hand Shock
We think Second-Hand Shock Syndrome needs to be identified and treated as its own illness. Lots of folks are treated for illnesses such as arthritis, cancer, heart, disease, obesity, anxiety and depression, who we believe began their downhill descent with some form of Second- Hand Shock Syndrome. Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, coach, family, health, heroes, inspiration, lawyer, mental health, peace, Post Traumatic Stress, recession, stress, terrorism, trauma, vicarious trauma, victims, violence, wellness, worry
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Anger Management: Pity and the Pedestal
Some people substitute pity and the pedestal for their own legitimate experience of anger at someone’s bad behavior. Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Just Stop!, Necessary Conversations, Second-Hand Shock, The Bridge to I Am, Uncategorized
Tagged alternative dispute resolution, anger, anger management, anxiety, communication, conflict, depression, divorce, family, feelings, frustration, health, mad, mental health, parenting, peace, trauma, victims, violence
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Cheating in Relationships: I Thought I Saw a Mouse!
Remember that cheating is a symptom of some unaddressed issue in your relationship that deserves immediate attention. Carrying on about the affair distracts you from identifying this crucial relationship concern. Whether you stay in the relationship or not, you need this information in order to grow as you move forward. Continue reading
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Tagged affairs, anger, anxiety, cheating, conflict, divorce, extramarital affairs, family, family law, feelings, health, mental health, parenting, trauma
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Road to Resilience Can Be Rocky
Attending and graduating from the “School of Hard Knocks” plays a key role in how a person learns to be resilient. Studies show that kids who grew up in adverse living conditions seem to demonstrate a richer depth of resilience in adulthood. Continue reading
Posted in Just Stop!, The Bridge to I Am, Uncategorized
Tagged alternative dispute resolution, anger, anxiety, coach, communication, conflict, death, divorce, family, health, inspiration, mediation, mental health, parenting, recession, recovery, resilience, stress, trauma, work, worry
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Mothers Know Compassion as the Purest Form of Love
Compassion is very dear, greatly valued and becoming so increasingly rare; people would pay high hourly rates to mental health professionals just to get some. Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, children, dispute, family, feelings, heal, health, mental health, mothers, peace, recovery, suffering, trauma, victims
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Bin Laden a Has-Been in a Culture of Trauma
Justice may have been done and we may have fought the good fight; but according to the news, Bin Laden is already a has-been and we will need to brace ourselves for whatever comes next. Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, anger, anxiety, bin Laden, conflict, death, heroes, justice, mental health, Post Traumatic Stress, September 11th, stress, terrorism, trauma, victims, violence, worry
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