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ARTArticleWhat to do when you feel hopelessFeeling hopeless is common when you’re depressed. People experience such feelings now and then but some find it easier than others to look at the bright side. The feeling of hopelessness with depression puts your mood and state of mind in a dark place. It can be challenging to see past the darkness and believe things will get better. Sometimes you’re not up for all the inspirational motivation pick-me-up stuff. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do something about how you’re feeling.ARTArticleWhen Couples Become Uncoupled By DepressionWhen an individual suffers from depression, feelings of isolation and a general sense of unworthiness can infiltrate their thoughts, making relationships difficult to manage. Relationships are put to the test and sometimes unravelled when depression takes hold. Depression Wears a Disguise ARTArticleWhen it’s Time to Shift PrioritiesI’m a perfectionist. Always have been. And sometimes it drives me crazy. Like most ‘Type-A’ people, there isn’t enough time in the day to be a perfectionist about everything, so we often prioritize areas of our lives where our standards need to reach their highest, and those where we can allow the ‘good enough’ standard to rule.ARTArticleWhen Selfless Giving Involves Self-Forgetting – Giving When It StingsJust the other day, I was involved in a situation that reminded me of the amount of courage it takes to give selflessly. I was acutely aware that few of us know the kind of love that’s willing to offer this sort of giving, particularly if it means experiencing personal suffering in the process of that giving. We might attribute this extraordinary ability to those who we believe are more emotionally or spiritually evolved than the rest of us. But, from my own experience, both personally and as a psychotherapist, that isn’t necessarily true.ARTArticleWhen the Opinions of Others Matter Too MuchFrom the moment we’re born until the day we die we are continually absorbing messages that tell us who we are, what we’re worth as human beings, what we should be doing at any given time, how we should look (and especially how we shouldn’t look), what we should eat, what we should buy, what activities or careers we should or should not engage in, and so on. Opinions come from near, they come from afar, but for sure, they come, and they never stop.ARTArticleWhy ‘Perfectionist’ Should Not Be A Dirty Word In BusinessWays Your Website Should Be Perfect to Avoid Losing Sales “I can see I’m dealing with a perfectionist here.” This is what a client said to me the other day when I pointed out a glaring error on her website that we had just launched for her, appearing after her assistant made an update. “Well of course!” I wanted to exclaim back, “aren’t you with your business?”ARTArticleWhy ARE We On Earth? (This is the "bare bones" of it.)You are here to re-member your SELF as one expression of Source Creator Expressing Itself As Unlimited Divine Love and Divine Joy. ALL of creation, every person, every mosquito, is Source Creator. People believing they are separate from Source Creator, known as “sinners” or otherwise, is the most devastating belief on this planet. As ALL of creation is Source Creator, ALL is ONE; no one and nothing can be isolated from Source Creator. People believing in “separation,” is the second most devastating belief on this planet.ARTArticleWriting Your Own Subliminal Messages or AffirmationsSubliminal messages in the form of affirmation are some of the best methods to overcome several life issues, from physical to mental health. Sometimes you just want to have them to maintain excellent disposition or outlook about life. Moreover, you have the power to create your own subliminal messages or affirmation. This is excellent since there’s no one else who better knows your current crises than yourself (despite of what professionals may tell you). This can also be a good test on how severe the issues are. Even at the end of formulating the affirmations or subliminalr ARTArticleAddiction and Recovery: "Treatment" and "Recovery" Are Not The Same Thing."My spouse went to recovery. Now they tell me that he needs to go on to additional counseling. What is that all about?" "Recovery" and "treatment" are not the same thing. Inpatient treatment, detox, or outpatient treatment, in and of itself, is not "recovery". Recovery is generally a return of good health, and a restoration (or acquisition) of effective functioning in one's life, in all areas including relationships, work, and community. Treatment for addiction is not a pill, a therapy, a place, or even a slice of time.ARTArticleAddiction and Recovery: Who Will Enable Your Addicted Loved One When You Quit?"Enabling" can be described as a behavior pattern of the significant people in the life on an addict or alcoholic. "Enabling" involves rescuing the alcoholic/addict from the negative consequences of his or her behavior. When the addict has those negative consequences of his/her addiction removed, the significant other is, in effect, "enabling" the addict to continue drinking/drugging. The significant other enablers the addict to stay in active addiction. This effect is usually not the intention of the worried and caring family member or friend.ARTArticleAddiction Recovery Worksheet For Identifying Healthy Replacements for the Alcohol and DrugsOne of the most important tasks of early recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction is learning to replace the chemical with health living skills. When you have taken the chemical out of your life, it leaves a big gaping hole, where something of substance was. Alcohol or other drugs have served many purposes over the course of addiction. They have played many roles. They had meaningful functions in your life. When the chemical is removed from your behavioral repertoire, how will you deal with stress, an annoying coworker, insomnia, and task overload?ARTArticleAnswers to commonly asked questions about HypnotherapyCan I get stuck in hypnosis? Impossible! When under hypnosis you are always fully in control and able to open you eyes at any time, stand up and continue your day as normal after the session. Will my secrets be revealed? Hypnosis is not a truth serum. You are always aware of the process and in control of what is said or not said at any time.ARTArticleBe GratefulMethod No 1: Be Grateful Think of, and make a list of, all that already exists in your life for which you can feel grateful. Read this list daily for at least 90 days. Add to the list each time you think of something else for which you can feel grateful.ARTArticleBeat the Feelings of InferiorityBeat the Feelings of Inferiority ARTArticleBecoming UnstuckBecoming Unstuck Many people find themselves in a place in life where they feel completely stuck. They recognize their discomfort in the situation and wonder how they got there. The discomfort increases when the individual realizes they do not know how to transcend the situation and find relief. There are several steps to consider as we work to become unstuck:ARTArticleCorporate Stress ManagementThe challenges, importance and impact of stress management in the corporate environment and an analysis of different approaches used in today’s market, and their effectiveness. According to research from Friends Provident in 2009, "almost two thirds of people (61 per cent) say they feel more stressed, run down and prone to illness than they did three years ago - and more than one in 10 of these busy and pressured Brits say the majority of stress they experience comes from work".ARTArticleDial Down Perfectionism – How to Stop Feeding AnxietyDial Down Perfectionism – How to Stop Feeding Anxietyr By Peter Lambrou, Ph.D. There is an old Native American folk story that goes like this. One day the chief of the tribe had all the young ones gathered round to tell them a story. He began, “There is a fight is going on inside me.ARTArticleDissociative Identity DisorderDissociative identity disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD) is defined in the DSM-IV-TR as the presence of two or more personality states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of one’s behavior. The patient has an inability to recall personal information. The extent of this lack of recall is too great to be explained by normal forgetfulness. The disorder cannot be due to the direct physical effects of a general medical condition or substance.[1] DID entails a failure to integrate certain aspects of memory, consciousness and identity.ARTArticleDo Something Selfish TodayWhy help others? Okay, we know we are supposed to because our culture and religions tell us to. But we aren’t necessarily good at following those rules. So, why help others? It will make the world a better place. But so would driving less, not using so much plastic, etc, etc, etc. We know that but it still doesn’t necessarily make us do any of those activities. So, why should we help others? A very basic, selfish reason is that helping others makes us feel good. Have you ever reached out to someone who needed you? Do you remember how you felt after? We tend to feel happy and fulfilled.ARTArticleDomestic and Workplace ViolenceWhen are people going to get real? When society reads in the newspaper or catches on local news channels the headlines: Murder-Suicide, Domestic Abuse Homicide, or Workplace Violence, they are intrigued out of the common interest that everyone has been frustrated in a relationship at home, work, and within their communities. It is from this realization people find themselves captivated in their wonder of why: “Why would a person go to such extremes as to purposefully destroy a life, family, or organization?”ARTArticleEveryone Loses When You Give Up on Your Marriage Without Trying to Acquire the Skills You Need To Keep ItThere is the "should" that says that you should be able to solve your own problems without help. Here is the rationale: "If your relationship has enough tension and strain that help is needed, the relationship is not going to make it anyway, so why waste time and money with counseling?" The reality is that if you give up on your marriage without first trying to acquire the skills that your need to be happy in it, you lose. Everyone loses.ARTArticleExperience the Source of Creation WithinMethod No 5: Act now as You Imagine You Would Then Behave now as if your goals have already become manifest. Do now that which you imagine you would do if your ideal life was already a reality. Until now, we have learned to align ourselves with our ideal reality by: 1. Realizing how much we already have and feeling grateful. 2. Making a list of what we want to manifest. 3. Removing limiting beliefs. 4. Writing a description of our ideal reality.ARTArticleExperience the Source of Creation WithinMethod No 6: Experience the Source of Creation Within Learn to let go of thoughts and experience the silence or peace between the thoughts. Here in this silent space exists the field of unlimited possibilities from which all beings, forms, objects and interactions flow forth. Begin to identify less with your body and mind and experience yourself as formless consciousness. As consciousness or energy you are actually one and the same with the consciousness that is the source of all that you seek to manifest. One consciousness, energy and matter.ARTArticleExploring Step 2 of the 12 Steps: Hope is the place to be!We all want and need to have hope. Hope gets us up in the morning and drives us to achieve what we otherwise would just dream about. Hope allows us to keep going when circumstances are dire and there doesn’t appear to be any opportunity of turning the tide. Hope is the expectation of something in the absence of empirical data. Hope is everything to the recovering addict.ARTArticleFalling Out of Love - Should We Pack It In?Often when a couple comes in for couple’s counseling, one of the partners is stating that s/he has fallen out of love with the other partner. Sometimes they both feel that way, but usually it is just one spouse verbalizing this. When you are feeling this way, it is common to question whether you ever “really” loved your spouse in the first place. Usually when couples present for counseling with one wanting out of the relationship, there other marital issues that are creating problems in the marriage, that the couple may not be talking about or acknowledging.ARTArticleFour Myths About Mindfulness MeditationThe majority of my clients resist mindfulness meditation at first, although the time commitment is small and the payoff is enormous. One insisted that it wasn’t necessary and that she didn’t have enough time in her day to devote to a regular practice. Then she went through the loss of a parent, and had such trouble coping that she couldn’t even drag herself out of bed. After missing work ten days straight, she called me for my advice. I told her to mindfully meditate while in bed. Terrified and bewildered, my client did and, in a few days, found that she could face going to work again.ARTArticleGet Free from Limiting BeliefsMethod No 3: Get Free from Limiting Beliefs Discover and then free yourself from all limiting beliefs (social and personal) conce ing what you can and cannot manifest and what can or cannot be done, especially in relationship to your specific goals. Our beliefs are the one main limiting factor in our creation or attraction process. We may feel unworthy of having what we desire. Or we might believe that we cannot have it. We may also actually fear having what we desire. Childhood programming ARTArticleGetting Married: Building Healthy Step-familiesIf your family is a "remarried family" or a "step-family" then you're in good company. The experience of building a remarried or stepfamily is a common experience, not only for recovering people, but for the general population as well. There are lots of difficulties involved in putting together a stepfamily. One of the major difficulties is in the perception that a step-family is something less than desirable. Stepfamilies can be healthy.ARTArticleGive to Others and Yourself DailyMethod No 8. Give to Others and Yourself Daily Give gifts from the heart regularly to those around you. Also give to yourself. Focus also on giving to others and yourself that which you seek to attract or create. Wish for others to be well and to also have what you are seeking to create. Offer happiness to others in various ways that come naturally.ARTArticleGrief CPR Series - Letting Go!Grief CPR Seriesr Things we need to know BEFORE emotional disaster strikes! Emotion = Energy in Motion Letting go!

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