Care for the Caregiver: After the Loss
A common experience for caregivers after a loss is a feeling of purposelessness.
After having one’s schedule tightly wrapped around the needs of an ailing partner, parent, child, friend, or patient, their death can leave one not only heartbroken but also searching for how to fill the days once again.
The background worry does not need to be there anymore. The routine of administering medications has vanished. The limitations of travel, vacation, and socializing with others have been lifted. Grocery shopping is a reminder of what favorite foods not to bring home. And one’s thoughts, feelings,... Read More
Many people agree that women have come a long way in regard to equal rights. Some even argue that women are completely equal to men and deny that sexism still exists. Others are appalled at the current state of attack on women’s rights. Whatever your opinion is on the current situation with equality among men and women and the concept of feminism, there is a specific type of therapy that still exists today called feminist therapy. With advances in equal rights, experts weigh in on the need for feminist therapy today.
Depending on who you ask, feminist therapy can be defined in slightly different... 
Depression has many origins, but trauma is one of the major categories. People suffer from all kinds of traumatic experiences, but here are a few examples of how trauma could have caused you to become depressed.
1. You got bullied in school and you concluded from the experience that you were a social misfit, weak, shameful. You carried that belief into adulthood, practicing it in your mind every day. You gave up on standing up for yourself or expecting to get what you want. You focus on trying to please other people to prove your worth, and very narcissistic people who need an adoring... 
Every day, you should be finding ways to contribute to your own good health, but it’s still nice to celebrate once a year the importance of being healthy. April 7 is World Health Day, and this year the focus is on improving health as people age.
Specifically, the topic of this year’s World Health Day is “aging and health,” with a theme of “Good health adds life to years,” according to the World Health Organization’s website. This is a day for people to focus on major health issues and implement changes that will affect the health of people all over the world.
Mental health in... 
Magic is a way of living. If one has done one’s best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. --C. G. Jung (The Red Book, p. 315)
I always knew that I was two persons. One was the son of my parents…the other was…old…mistrustful, remote from the world of men, but close to nature, the earth, the sun, the moon…all living creatures…and above all close to the night, to dreams, and to whatever “God” worked directly in him. --C. G. Jung (Memories, Dream, and Reflections, pp. 44-45)
What Jung called... 
I must first be who I really am, then, do what I need to do, in order to have what I want.
Have you ever had the thought, I’ll be happy when… we move to a new home; when I get the position I’ve been interviewing for; when I finish my degree; when I get pregnant; when I marry….
It all starts with you right Now.
To create the life you want, take responsibility and bring a playful attitude into your relationship with Self, your relationship with the Other in your life, and your relationship with Nature. New or unexpected adventures can be a great start. Did you ever want to…
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Many studies have examined how family life can affect work (FWC) and how work can affect family life (WFC). But few studies have looked closely at how the overall life satisfaction of psychologists is influenced by work and family. Mental health professionals work in a field in which they are exposed to highly 
Psychological well-being (PWB) is known to positively and negatively affect a person’s emotional state. Research has shown that individuals with low PWB are more vulnerable to symptoms of depression and 
A 27-year-old woman named Katherine came into my office recently with a terrible case of the doldrums—a word that hasn't found its way into the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders but carries more descriptive oomph than depression. The doldrums originally described an area of the sea where ships were not able to move for lack of wind. Katherine was in that bad place of being stuck and adrift at the same time, with nothing out there for her to catch a lift from. She lived at home with a father who worked all the time and a stepmother with whom she shared a nearly total silence.... 
Teenagers must decide which educational path to take upon graduation, which sexual orientation or boundaries they will adhere to, and also which career they will aspire to. All of these things will influence the future course their lives take and, ultimately, their sense of well-being. A recent study conducted by Julie S. Ashby of the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter in England sought to examine the relationship between career aspirations in 
Motivation is one of the core concepts of individual agency and has been shown to have a direct impact on psychological well-being. For students who are leaving college and entering the 
I don’t know about you, but today, unplanned items on my agenda added up to distractions that resulted in an overwhelming urge to tear my hair out. As often happens, I had loaded way more into my schedule than could be accomplished by a reasonable person within a day. It’s now 7:40 pm DST and I’m feeling grateful that the destination for this article is 3 hours behind my time zone; therefore, my missive will officially arrive in time, by sheer luck.
Sound familiar? It is, at least occasionally, for most of us. t’s the result of what I call “being mindless”, a condition caused... 
Positive automatic thoughts (PATs) produce many beneficial byproducts, including increased functioning and 
