Emotional Health
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Most of us are more easily fooled than we think we are. If a stranded motorist knocks on our door and asks us to use our phone, we generally… read more…
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Q: What led you to found Brighter Days Family Grief Center, and how did your own family’s experience with loss shape your mission? The vision for Brighter Days Family… read more…
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“Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief, and, most of all, fear.” Joan Rivers My Frankie is… read more…
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“We have met the enemy and it is us.” —Winnie the Pooh We all know the routine. We promise ourselves to work out at the gym and later find… read more…
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Some children grow up playing a special role in their families. They’re expected to emotionally manage an unstable and selfish parent for the sake of the family. In return… read more…
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“It’s not the pretending, but the pretending that we are not pretending that hurts us.” — Sheldon Kopp, psychoanalyst and author Most of us at least intellectually understand that… read more…
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Imagine living in a world where no one is capable of understanding anybody else’s feelings. In such a world, someone could grasp how you feel only if he or… read more…
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So many of us are afraid that this national election will not turn out right and that we will be stuck electing a leader who both promotes hate and… read more…
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Hidden shame is a powerful emotional and physiological reaction. It fills our being in covert ways. It can cause us to become violent or withdrawn from life and it… read more…
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For some time, I have been thinking about perfectionism – my own as well as the people I have met in almost thirty years of recovery. The image that… read more…
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