Family Patterns – Breaking Free from a Painful Past
Many people think that once they move out from their family home, they’ll also be moving away from dysfunctional family patterns and childhood pains. This is not always true. Many people who have ‘unfinished business’ from their family of origin often find themselves troubled by the same sorts of [...]
Living With Someone Who Suffers From Mental Illness?
Are you living with someone who suffers from mental illness? Then you are probably living with very high levels of stress in your life. The impact of mental illness on those who are in relationship with the sufferer is often exhausting, frustrating, heart breaking, chaotic and sometimes scary. If [...]
5 Tips to Help You Recover After a Divorce
Divorce is rated as the second most distressing event a person can experience in life; being preceded only by the death of a spouse. Surprised? I doubt it if you are someone who is going through a divorce or have experienced divorce in your life. Divorce is in fact, [...]
Understanding and Handling Anger in a Healthy Way
Anger is a powerful secondary emotion usually experienced in response to a sense of harm that someone has inflicted upon us (insult, criticism, abandonment, physical attack etc). Anger can also rise up in us sometimes from our own misperceptions of reality, destructive thinking about normal life issues or memories [...]
Blended Families – Making It Work
Blended families are as old as time, however they are becoming more and more common in today’s society. Building a new family from two previous families due to either divorce or the death of a spouse will present many challenging variables along the way that can potentially generate feelings [...]