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Be Optimistic!

By Jill MacDonald, MA, LPC
Dare to allow yourself to think the best. Hope for the best. See the best in yourself and others. Dream. Care. Love. Believe. This type of thinking is good for everyone. Of course, you might challenge me and say: I will hurt so much more if I am optimistic and “it” does not happen...
Remarkable Resiliency Skills for the Uncertain Times: Part 3

By Jack N. Singer, Ph.D.
Events in your life do not directly cause stress, or any other emotion, attitude or mood, for that matter. The emotion or attitude that results from an event is strictly caused by what you say to yourself about that event--your internal dialogue.
Yoga Can Enhance Therapy

By Mary Lansing, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Yoga is about healing the splits inside us, the places of separation and dislocation. Coupled with psychotherapy, it can become a pathway toward self-study that flows into an individual's everyday activities, allowing her to focus on her body rather than disturbing thoughts that keep her rooted in old complexes.
Dealing With Stress Caused By a Disaster

A major disaster--e.g., tornado, hurricane, flood, earthquake, fire--threatens to not only leave a trail of lives lost, physical injuries, and property destruction in its wake, but can also result in its victims suffering from a severely damaged sense of emotional balance.
Stress: Brain Yields Clues About Why Some Succumb While Others Prevail

Stress can play a major role in the development of several mental disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. A key question in mental health research is: Why are some people resilient to stress, while others are not?
Remarkable Resiliency Skills for the Uncertain Times: Adding Life to Your Years and Years to Your Life--Part 4

By Jack N. Singer, Ph.D.
When you view unfortunate events in your life as temporary, you can continually ward off the stress of life events. More importantly, an optimistic interpretation of events has been shown to lead to remission of disease and the generation of T-cells, which are critical components of our immune systems.
Remarkable Resiliency Skills for the Uncertain Times: Part 1

By Jack N. Singer, Ph.D.
"Stress" is such an overused term, yet in our competitive and impatient culture, examples of stress are with us constantly. Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent annually for stress-related medical insurance claims, workers compensation benefits, reduced productivity, poor product quality, spillover into marital and family problems, and even drug and alcohol abuse, which is often a desperate attempt at coping with stress.
Emotional Eating Can Sabotage Even Your Best Dieting Efforts

Typically triggered by stress and anxiety, "emotional eating" leads to overeating accompanied by clouded judgment, all of which results in making poor food choices. A key influence on emotional eating, however, is not just the presence of stressful or anxiety-riddled circumstances, but rather how we respond when life seems trying and difficult.
Feeling Stressed Out?

By Judy Martin, MFT
During those times when we truly can’t change our external circumstances, we do, however, possess healing resources that, like a raft, can float us over life’s stress-provoking white-water rapids. Touch, breath, and speaking our true feelings help us create such a life raft.
Manage Stress -- Before Stress Manages You

By Edward H. Fuller, M.S.W.
While we tend to associate stress with negative events or unwanted changes in our lives, stress can also result from added responsibility and pressure that comes along with attending to very welcome and quite positive experiences. Whatever the source(es) of your stress, learning techniques and strategies for managing it well can help ensure stress doesn't end up managing you!
Anger and Change

By Denise O'Doherty, LPC, MSN, LMFT, LCDC
Anger is usually aroused by a real or supposed wrong, such as injury or injustice, and is often accompanied by an impulse to retaliate. We become angry when we don’t get our own way, when we feel threatened, or when someone or something doesn’t honor a value or belief that is important to us.
Exercise Away Your Worries

By Randi Rotwein, MA, MFT, CPT
Research has shown for years that there are definite health benefits associated with regular physical activity and exercise (reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, and general overall strength gains in lean muscle mass). However, not until recently has research confirmed that physical activity/exercise is also associated with lowering levels of depression, anxiety and stress, as well as assisting to increase one’s self-esteem.
Turning to the Use (and Abuse) of Drugs, Alcohol and/or Tobacco in Times of Stress...

Stressful events can have a direct affect on the use of alcohol or other drugs. Stress is a major contributor to the initiation and continuation of addiction to alcohol or other drugs, as well as to relapse or a return to drug use after periods of abstinence.
Stress and Depression

When it comes to stress, some people experience prolonged emotional, behavioral, and hormonal responses that eventually leads to depression. A form of counseling called cognitive therapy, in which an individual learns to temper their very personal responses to stress, can provide significant help.
Procrastination

By Stanley E. Hibbs, Ph.D.
Imagine how good your life would be if you did everything you needed to do in a timely and efficient manner. You would have a lot less stress. You would enjoy better health. You might even make more money. Unfortunately, most of us find it much too easy to put things off.
MoneyMasks™

By Judith Gruber, LCSW, CCET
The mask is one part of the personality that we artificially identify with and show the world on an unconscious level. The mask is who we think we should be or wish we could be, how we want others to perceive us, and is based on our idealized self-image. Your MoneyMask™ can manifest in your personality as power and control, denial, superiority, even love.
Effectively Coping with Anger

By Grant Kono, LCSW
You may think that your anger tends to come out of the blue, that you're generally a calm, rational person. What's more often the case is that you learn to live with a certain amount of suppressed anger and that every once in awhile the amount of anger that you normally feel and are normally capable of managing becomes agitated by an event, causing you to need to vent the extra anger that you now cannot manage, much like a pressure cooker venting steam.
Remarkable Resiliency Skills for the Uncertain Times: Part 2

By Jack N. Singer, Ph.D.
Negative programming can keep us from taking risks, trusting our abilities, or thinking "outside of the box." "Safety" for most of us lies in repeating old, self-defeating habits, rather than "risking" changes in our habits. This is why approximately 77% of our self-talk is negative and why we develop fears of change and taking risks.
Relieving Stress

By Birgit Wolz, Ph.D., MFT
Do you feel overwhelmed by too many things to do? Have you noticed lately that you wake up early or in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep because your mind is racing? Or have you been feeling more irritable about minor things at work, or at home with your spouse or children? You could be the victim of too much stress.
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