When you lose someone close to you, that grief never fully goes away—but you do learn to cope with it over time. Several effective coping techniques include talking with loved ones about your pain, remembering…
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Grief is an incredibly difficult as well as unpredictable process—which means that it looks different for everybody. We must all learn how to grieve effectively, through strategies that work specifically for us and our situation….
As with most things, counseling has changed and grown exponentially since its initial development. First, let’s consider all of the various approaches to counseling that exist today: there’s cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, couples counseling, group therapy, family therapy, and more….
For some, it’s just a game. But for others, it’s a lifestyle. I’m talking about the players of course, but there’s another group that fits the bill: die-hard sports fans. For players and die-hard sports…
We define and we dissect the grieving process: first, the grieving individual will experience denial, followed by anger; then bargaining and a bout of depression; and lastly, acceptance….
When a pet dies, it is a loss that feels just as big and real as losing a friend or family member-sometimes it is bigger and more real. Pets and animals give us a type of love that humans usually don’t….
Learning the difference between sadness and depression Read: Back to Basics, Depression 101 We live in a time when what life is supposed to look like largely comes from an external world of media messages. We see the happy people on TV and begin to…
