If you want to boost your emotional health then build the following into your life: 1. Develop a good group of friends. If possible, try to have a wide group of friends. Then, if someone moves away, or you change your work or hobbies, you’ll still have a healthy support system in place. 2. Learn […]
How to Boost your Emotional Wellness — Don’t Lose Hope
“The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.” Some basic advice for those bleak, tough days …. 1. Acknowledge how you feel, and accept that this is going to be a more challenging day. Call it for what it is, and respect your limits. 2. Commit to doing only the […]
How to Stay on Top of Life when you Feel Depressed — Don’t Lose Hope
“Still, I rise.” – Maya Angelou All of us deal with tough experiences in life. Times when we feel lost and completely overwhelmed. Times when we “just feel”, and we don’t know where to turn. Below are some suggestions to help cope with these. 1. Write about it: Have you ever typed out an angry […]
How to Cope with Tough Experiences — Don’t Lose Hope
Relationship myths including the following: 1. It take two to tango; both partners share responsibility when there’s a broken relationship. Not true. Often it’s the case that one of partners has more serious issues than the other partner, or brings more baggage to the relationship. For example, they may not be able to securely attach, […]
Straightening out Some Relationship Myths — Don’t Lose Hope
“Do it for you.” That’s all I’m going to say. Not to please other people. Not to be acceptable to other people. Not because other people can’t handle you as you are. Or can’t handle the truth of what you’ve been through. Or can’t deal with the effects of your trauma. These are terrible reasons […]
Do it for You — Don’t Lose Hope
“There are losses that rearrange the world. Deaths that change the way you see everything. Grief that tears everything down. Pain that transports you to an entirely different universe, even while everyone else thinks nothing has changed.” – Megan Devine Steven Hayes, the founder of ACT (Action and Commitment Therapy) has outlined 7 skills for […]
7 Skills for Coping with Loss — Don’t Lose Hope
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?‘” – Shannon L. Alder Just something to think about ….
Quote of the Day — Don’t Lose Hope
In a previous post we talked about some of the statements and comments that can be destructive to the healing process. Below, we talk about some things that can help when you want to support a traumatized friend. 1. When the person starts to talk about the traumatic experience, be aware of the fact that […]
How to be There for a Traumatized Friend — Don’t Lose Hope
“Strong women aren’t born. They’re forged in the fires they’ve had to walk through. And they’ve shown the world they are warriors.” This is you. A strong courageous woman who has been forced to deal with stuff she never wanted to deal with, and never should have had to deal with. And you’ve discovered in […]
Quote of the Day — Don’t Lose Hope
There are a lot of reasons why we end up feeling stuck. And one possible reason is experiencing a trauma. Clearly, this is something that we need to address or we’ll live with its effects for the rest of our lives. But assuming that you’re doing this, and yet you still feel stuck, are there […]
Getting Unstuck — Don’t Lose Hope
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