Parenting Stress, How to Keep Your Relationship With Your Partner Intact
You met and fell in love. Simple enough. Then the kids came. Simplicity over. In truth, parenting is one of life’s most wondrous experiences – there’s never a dull moment. But living through the day-to-day stressors of parenting – the good, the bad and the ugly – can put a damper on even the strongest of relationships. Like millions of moms and dads, if parenting stress is wreaking havoc on your relationship, it’s time for a new strategy. Here are a few useful tips for keeping your relationship with your partner intact as you raise the clan.
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Topics Couples Should Discuss Before the Wedding
With the big day approaching, it’s easy to feel as though you’re living in a happy bubble – and that’s fantastic! Being in love and planning a lifelong commitment is an exciting experience. However, while your partner and you likely see eye-to-eye on virtually everything, it’s smart to have conversations that communicate expectations about your future life together.
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Tips to Beat the Summer Blues-Avoid Depression and Stress
With winter a distant memory, the approaching summer should be a breath of fresh air – a relaxing time to enjoy family fun and outdoor activities. But juggling the kids, schedule changes, social events and work while enduring hot, humid temperatures isn’t always fun, and you’re not alone if you’re experiencing a bout of the summer time blues.
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Feeling Grief
“But to mourn, that’s different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.”
Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
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Enjoy Summer Parties-5 Tips for the Socially Anxious
Most people find it endearing when a small child hides behind a mother’s coat when confronted with new people or strange places. But as an adult, living with a social phobia isn’t charming – in fact it’s downright difficult
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Summer is Heating Up! 4 Tips to Help you Keep your Cool!!
When the weather is hot and physical relief is tough to come by, tempers have a way of getting a little steamy too. Maybe long awaited weekend plans aren’t coming together right or a disagreement with your teenager has you agitated. When tempers flare, it’s helpful to have a few strategies in mind for defusing the flame.
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Let Me Just Explain Myself:
An innocent mistake we often make when being criticized
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4 Healthy Tips for Managing Grief After a Relationship Ends
Relationships are a part of life. There are good ones, bad ones, those that inspire and motivate us, even those that teach us how not to be. But the one thing that is constant in all relationships is the intense connection we feel to those we build relations with.
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Anxiety Counseling
When you think about how it looks when someone is anxious, what comes to mind? Some of the obvious signs associated with anxiety are a flushed face and chest, tapping a foot, biting the lip or nails, or wringing ones hands.
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5 Steps to Combat Swimsuit Anxiety
Well, here we are again, quickly approaching another summer filled with trips to the beach, community swimming pools and backyard pool parties.
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Tony Blair
Reposted from September 2010
This morning I feel I must diverge from my plight to improve romance everywhere and talk about Tony Blair.
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Tips to Avoid the Blues If You Are Alone During the Holidays
The holidays are traditionally all about sharing, giving and spending time together with friends and loved ones – activities that are difficult to do solo
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Tips for Dealing with Blended Family Holiday Challenges
It’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, but for blended families the holidays often bring increased stress and anxiety.
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Tips for Dealing With Difficult Family Members During the Holidays
Every family has one – the irritated brother-in-law with a chip on his shoulder, the jealous cousin or the controlling aunt who critiques each holiday celebration as if she were hosting America’s Got Talent.
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5 Tips for Lowering Holiday Stress
The Holidays are here, and for many of us, that means shopping, entertaining, traveling and more. Despite being a long awaited and joyous time of year, the season can also be filled with overwhelming expectations, chaos and ultimately, elevated stress.
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Oliver's Observations
What I like best about summer is Daylight Savings Time. The days are longer, it stays light out later, and we take walks in the sweet evening breeze after things have cooled down a bit from the summer heat.
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A Cause for Caring
Pathways to Wellness is pleased to announce our upcoming HIV/AIDS support group beginning in Summer 2014!
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Dudley's Deliberations
It's spring and I love spring (except for the allergies, of course, but I don't really get them like my brother Ollie does, poor guy). Actually, there's not much I don't love... except, I guess, when it's too hot to take a walk. It's easy for me to love everything, though, because I live "the life of Riley." Now who is this Riley character anyway?
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Spring Clean Your Relationships
We hear the phrase "spring clean" every year, but what exactly does it mean to spring clean? Sure, we are aware of the literal sense of cleaning, yet there is more to clean than just the house during springtime. What if we were to apply the idea of spring cleaning to more aspects of our life? For instance, our relationships?
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Oliver's Observations
Spring has officially sprung, and that means Mother Nature is buzzing with energy all around us, with loads of transformations and self-awareness. So, since it's my month to pontificate, I believe I will discuss the productive use of energy--more specifically, my type of energy, Impersonal Energy.
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