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Living with an addiction can limit your potential, your freedom and your happiness. This is mainly because a person's reliance on drugs, alcohol or other addictions to deal with everyday stressors prevents them from maturing and attaining new skills that they would otherwise develop if they were dealing with life’s stressors in a more natural way.r
Honesty is being sincere, truthful, trustworthy, honorable, fair genuine and loyal, along with the absence of lying, cheating, or theft. The truth shall set you free. This statement is so true. Honesty has many valuable attributes. On a personal note honesty has taught me to be honest with my feelings, as well as how to deal with my feelings in the moment. Consequently, honesty taught me to be aware of the consequences to my actions. In addition, being honest has prevented me from bottling up my emotions and ultimately exploding on innocent people.
The answers we are looking for in life are within us. Take for example a tree shading us from the sun. The tree originally came from a seed within the seed it knew how to grow into a shade tree. The seed did need essential ingredients, sun light and water to keep growing. With the essential ingredients the seed matured and grew into a shade tree. Similarly, if people keep growing and learning answers come to us, consequently, we mature and grow into the person we are meant to be. The danger comes when we stop growing and learning.
Marital Problems and Our Wedding Vows
Couple Counselling Communication amongst couples is commonly poor when a climate of fear and mistrust is perpetuated through criticism, placating, blame, and scapegoating. In these circumstances the communication can become highly reactive, attacking, and critical. This leads over time to withdrawal, loss of hope, and marital dissolution. My main approach to counseling couples is to help improve communication and identify issues and resolve problems that hinder open honest communication.r
The Adverse Effects of Addiction
Currently, addiction is on the upswing fueled by the pressures from our economic downturn’ says Howard Mettiner, President and CEO of Phoenix House the nations largest non profit alcohol and drug abuse treatment centre in the United States. When people loose their homes, their savings, and their pensions, they often lose their self respect. In fact, workers can actually go through grief reactions similar to bereavement particularly if they have been unemployed a long time, have dependents, have lost relationships and had little notice of job loss.
Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Destructiveness in Our Livesr
Medical and Spiritual Model of Drug Rehabilitation
Anger is a healthy and natural emotion when expressed in a mature and appropriate way. However, when anger is left untreated and gets out of control, it can lead to child abuse, domestic violence, as well as physical and verbal abuse.r
* Psychotherapy is a dynamic process that provides great explanations to understanding and changing human behavior. Personality development begins during the first years of life. This means that children who are born into warm and empathic environments comprised of healthy caregivers, will in most cases, grow into healthy adults. If this nurturing doesn’t exist in one’s early environment, personality disorders can develop.r
Not knowing what to change or how to change can be very frustrating to many people. To make things even harder is the fact that even if we knew what to change could we possibly go through the fear and insecurity associated with change alone, without the encouragement and support of other people. For many people they would still be unable to change. Consequently, in this little mini article on empowerment I would like to suggest 2 simple methods that are very effective in the change process.r
. A belief system provides a core set of values on which we base everything we do, say, or believe in life. Everybody interprets life’s events differently. What’s traumatic to one person doesn’t necessarily traumatize others. Regardless, belief systems can be empowering or disabling. They can be built on optimism or pessimism. Our beliefs determine what we think, and what actions we are capable of, or incapable of. What our parents taught us as children, a traumatic event, or a breach of trust, can sometimes influence our belief system.