Reading Time: 4 minutes “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” (Lewis B. Smedes) Sometimes we are hurt by someone or something so deeply that it seems we can’t put the situation aside. This person or thing keeps coming to mind, each time creating all kinds of unpleasant feelings: anger, pain, […]
Tags:- Acceptance Anger Anxiety Compassion Confusion Depression Disappointment Forgiveness Grief Guilt Happiness Hatred Hormones Immune System Negativity Pain Resentment Sadness Self-Sabotage Shame
Reading Time: 6 minutes Often the one person you’re stuck with for life (you), is also the most mistreated and neglected (by you). Let’s dive right in, shall we? I’ll begin by explaining what I mean by self-abuse. Abuse, as per Google, is defined as treating someone “with cruelty or violence, regularly or repeatedly.” Self-abuse is thus the act […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I have seen people who are hurt and depressed spiral into crippling depression rather suddenly, losing their energy and desire to live. A lot of people face depression—at least 264 million people world-wide—and that statistic is pre-pandemic (WHO, 2020). Crippling depression may include symptoms of major depression such as a loss of appetite or interest […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes An estranged family prioritizes the autonomy and individuality of each member, sacrificing emotional connection to one another. Similar to all groups and communities, the family members are attempting to cope with the tension between honoring individual preferences and beliefs and coalescing or uniting around a particular vision and set of values. The system operates with […]
Tags:- Abandonment Boundaries Catastrophizing Conflicts Consumption Fear Desires Fear Fear of Abandonment Intimacy Mindfulness Parentification Sadness
Reading Time: 3 minutes When I started my nursing career back in 2001, I was a mature student but I didn’t feel that way faced with individuals, families and communities during their most emotive times due to death and thereafter grief. Just two decades ago there “were” three types of grief: normal, absent, or delayed. So you were either […]
Tags:- Ancestors Anger Bereavement Coronavirus Coronaviruses COVID-19 Death Depression Despair Grief Guilt Hopelessness Isolation Loss Questioning Sadness Sheltering-in-place Spirituality
Reading Time: 4 minutes It was a regular day, I was working from my home. The laptop was keeping me busy while emails trickled in popped with work meeting notifications and social media feeds in parallel kept company on my connect digital self. After one of the calls, I really started to wonder, is this worth it? My emotional […]
Reading Time: 19 minutes How many times have you contemplated heading to the nearest airport and booking a one-way ticket to elsewhere? How many times have you actually gone through with it? If you haven’t, not even once, that’s probably because you don’t take the option seriously, pathologizing it as an escapist delusion. It isn’t. You may object, arguing […]
Tags:- Abuse Agoraphobia Ambivalence Anxiety Buyer’s Remorse Confidence Dating Depression Domestic Violence Gaze of the Other Insecurity Looks Regrets Relationships Relocation Repression Sadness Self-Loathing Self-Medication Self-Recrimination Self-Reproaching Socializing Soursop Stress Travel
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes I feel like I wasn’t made for this world. Is that an odd statement? Apparently, as a child, I used to tell my mum that I didn’t feel I belonged; like maybe I had been born in the wrong time. I was five. I still feel that way. I feel sad a lot of […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” (Dalai Lama) Nowadays we live in a very individualistic world, a society driven by ego, prestige and status. It’s all about “what’s in it for me” and how to get the best for “me, myself and I,” whether it’s in a materialistic, educational […]
Tags:- Acceptance Altruism Anxiety Buddha Buddhism Connectedness Contentment Depression Disconnectedness Disconnection Ego Empathy Emptiness Existentialism Gratitude Happiness Individualism Joy Kindness Loneliness Love Metta Mitta Oxytocin Pain Sadness Sorrow Suffering Unfulfillment Unhappiness Well-being
Reading Time: 4 minutes To know if you are stressed, let’s take time to understand what stress is. In my Certified Stress Management Consultant seminar, my teacher, Dr. George Bien, says it best: “Stress is response to change!” I’d like to note that there is positive stress and there is negative stress. Positive stress stems from things that challenge […]
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