You see the clock and realize you have four hours left before your alarm sounds. You think about everything you must do the next day and how miserable it will feel doing it exhausted. — Lauren Woolley, PhD So many things have been said about how to have beautiful skin, healthy bones, and a sound […]
Month: July 2017
Working on Yourself Before Getting Into a Relationship
After a bad breakup, you may feel that you never want to trust another soul with your heart ever again. — Suzanne Degges-White Ph.D. If you are unaware of who you are before you begin a relationship, you are more likely to lose yourself throughout the course of the relationship. People in relationships often focus […]
Why You’re Only Hurting Yourself by Remaining Friends
Because our nervous system is wired to need others, rejection is painful. Romantic rejection especially hurts. — Darlene Lancer, JD, MFT Many people would like to remain friends with their exes even after the nastiest of breakups. After all, it’s only natural to want to be near the person who you have grown close to […]
What to Do When Your Friends and Family Hurt You
“Should I breakup with him?” That is the question that my client Carly struggled with as she sat in on my couch, moving her right crossed leg back and forth with a nervous, oscillating kick. — John D. Moore, PhD Your significant other isn’t the only person who can break your heart. Heartbreak can be […]
How Heartbreak Affects Your Health
When someone has broken your heart, it can seem as though every cell in your body is in mourning. The emotional pain that is brought on by grief combined with the physical pain caused by illness such as depression and cardiomyopathy can be debilitating to those dealing with heartbreak. For those who are suffering but […]
How to Prevent Yourself From Acting on Feelings
We’ve all experienced that moment when our feelings for someone overpower our emotions. Every waking moment is spent thinking about them and formulating a plan to convince them to love us back and to forget all the reasons why it won’t work. If you’ve been unfortunate enough to act on these feelings, you know that […]
Not All Heartbreak Occurs Outside of Relationships
Heartbreak hurts. Loss is shattering. Put these two together and you’ve got the lovely one-two punch that can come with breakups of short-lived or long-term relationships. — Danielle B. Grossman, MFT Not all relationships have to end in order to cause you heartbreak. Sometimes, you can get your heart broken by staying in a toxic […]
Harmful Behaviors That Destroy Relationships
To a great extent, we live in a culture that resists and fears emotion. From the time we’re babies we’re taught to quickly shut off “negative” feelings like anger, sadness or pain. — Lisa Firestone, Ph.D. If your relationships keep falling apart one after the other, you may want to take into consideration the behavior […]
Practicing Self-Care After Heartbreak
We are seeking stability. When we feel we can’t internally create it, it is quite possible to engage in unhealthy new relationships that cover up healthy relationship grieving. — Nathan Feiles, LCSW When we think about heartbreak, we often imagine the messy, depressed, chocolate-eating people that we see in films and TV. We expect ourselves to […]