Category: anxiety
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Being Mindful in Your Marriage
What is the key to being mindful in your marriage? The idea of mindfulness is to be present to ourselves physically, emotionally, spiritually and literally in the moment. Being mindful involves focusing on your breathing and thoughts rather than projecting yourself into the future with worries and anxiety. Sometimes it is much easier, mentally, to…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting an Empty Nest
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in advice, aging, anxiety, appreciation, children, communication, compatibility, conflict, counseling, events, family, fathers, intimacy, marriage, men, money, mothers, podcasts, romance, stepfamilies, stress, tips, womenWhat happens to a marriage when parents must begin to prepare for an empty nest? When parents start to prepare to send their son or daughter off to college they are not only helping to ease the transition into college life for their child, but also paving the way for their own next steps… of…
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How to Argue and Save Your Marriage
Is there a right way and a wrong way to argue? The answer is yes. And the secret’s out. There is a right way and a wrong way to argue. Oftentimes when couples fight, it becomes husband versus wife, him against her. The issue with that, however, is that the entire sense of the “team”…
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Sleeping Habits and Marriage
Are your sleeping habits affecting your marriage? We all know sleep is important for our health. But how many of us really take into consideration the effects that a lack of sleep can have on not only our physical health, but our mental and emotional health as well? The sleeping habits that we enlist (or…
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Maintaining Mindfulness
Take a second to stop and think… Are you maintaining mindfulness today? You might ask, well what does that mean exactly? The idea of mindfulness is to be present to ourselves physically, emotionally, spiritually and literally in the moment. Being mindful involves focusing on your breathing and thoughts rather than projecting yourself into the future…
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The Days of Wine and Roses: When Your Partner Drinks Too Much
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in abuse, addiction, advice, anger, anxiety, blame, communication, conflict, counseling, dependency, depression, fighting, illness, marriage, men, podcasts, stress, tips, womenHow can you tell when your partner drinks too much? When does drinking become a problem? Imagine meeting someone new. You start going out on romantic dates- dates that maybe include a bottle of wine, candles, roses, the whole nine yards. Initially, the alcohol acts as an intimacy and romance enhancer. It helps you both…