How Practicing Self-Compassion Can Enhance Your Romantic Relationship
While focusing on your partner is important, you can’t ignore your own well-being. That includes being kind, considerate, and compassionate with your own feelings.
Why Childhood Trauma Leads to Heightened Emotional Intensity and Variability
Childhood trauma can create a variety of mental health issues later in life. Even if you’ve successfully been able to “forget” or repress the trauma that happened, it remains stored in your mind and body and will typically manifest itself in different ways.
You Think You May Have Experienced Childhood Trauma—Now What?
In a perfect world, children would never have to deal with trauma. They would never experience any kind of abuse or neglect. They would be in safe environments, and the risk of going through scary or dangerous experiences would be low.
How Do Stress and Anxiety Affect the Immune System?
Most people understand that stress and anxiety can take a toll on your mental well-being. But, they can also impact your physical health. Too much stress can even weaken the immune system and make you more susceptible to certain illnesses.
Conflict Missteps: Unhelpful Ways You Might Be Approaching Conflict
At first, it might seem strange to consider the fact that there is a “right” way to argue. But, the way you handle conflicts in your life can have a direct impact on your romantic relationships, friendships, familial relationships, and career.
Understanding How Trauma Lives in Our Physical Self
Most of us recognize trauma as something that impacts our mental health. It’s true that going through a traumatic experience can have lasting negative results on your mental well-being. You can carry the memories and impact of that experience with you for years, creating mental health issues like depression or anxiety.
Strategies for Processing Emotions in Therapy
Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, the effects of trauma, or you just need someone to talk to, therapy can be a wonderful outlet to improve your mental health.
Addressing Unresolved Feelings: Do They Carry Meaning?
Have you ever told someone — or even yourself — that you’ve moved on from an issue, but you know that deep down you’re still holding onto it? Maybe your feelings were hurt by a partner, or maybe you felt insignificant at work and tried to brush it off, but couldn’t.
Strategies for Expressing Your Emotions Effectively
Emotions will always demand to be felt. You can’t control them. But, you do control how you express them. While some people have a hard time keeping their emotions in, others have a difficult time expressing themselves, at all.
How to Navigate a Relationship with an Avoidant Partner
No matter how much you might love them, dealing with an avoidant partner can be frustrating, hurtful, and confusing. It might leave you feeling totally alone in your relationship, even if your partner doesn’t fully realize the impact of their actions.