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By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Women worry about many different things, from finances to body image to relationships to work or even to worry about their mother's approval even if their mother is 90! Yet the same psychological drive is fueling this stressful emotion no matter what triggers it. I believe the real source behind the worry most women feel...

What if every day was the best day of your life?? It can be. Every day can be the best day of your life if you choose it to be. I have not written in a while mainly because over the past two months I have struggled, emotionally, and a little physically with what is happening in my life. During these times, I relied on God to guide me and help me with my anxiety. There were days when I...

The day I crossed the street. Today one of the women told me she’d take me across the street to the store to get money orders so I could pay my monthly fee at the Shelter. It turned out I saw her back go out the door leaving with someone else, and figured, Okay Rose, now you need to do it alone. I went to the bathroom, feeling anxious and lightheaded. I sat on the toilet and said, ‘okay...

by: Bill A. Gaspard, Christian Life Coach~I was introduced to him a few months back and playfully nick named him the Worry Warden. Each day he gets up and begrudgingly goes to work. He believes he is in charge of his life and until recently he found out that he was not only the Warden of his own life, but a prisoner as well. He has an important job as a Warden; he has so many prisoners to take...

Best anxiety treatment available these days is generic medicines which can be used by any one for reducing anxiety. People have started taking pills for sleep to overcome the sleeplessness and their psychological problems related to their schedules and other type of anti depression. Anxiety may be cause by many factors like emotional imbalance, workload, and other problems in near...

My husband, Dick, suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), so when the days get shorter, his anxiety mounts. Until we figured out what was going on, the emotional toll was so crippling that Dick was unable to function normally. It took his doctor several annual cycles to figure out that the cause of Dick’s anxiety, depression and general malaise had no basis in his relationships,...

It’s that time. Yes, THAT time. The moment you have dreaded for years. It is time to teach your teenager how to drive. It is the time for you to step into two tons of glass, steel and plastic and hand the keys to someone who, fairly recently, needed you to tie their shoelaces for them. It is the time for digging your fingers into the car door, pushing a brake pedal that is not there,...