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Here you will find hundreds of the practical insights I have gleaned from my years of professional and private life. As a columnist, I’ve written many articles about relationships, including codependency and addiction. But I’ve also shared insights into happiness, self-growth, mental health, trauma, grieving and other life issues. Just click on a category to [...]
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I invite you to look back over your life for your own handicaps or shortcomings, and for times when you felt disadvantaged. Then look for the gifts each may have produced in your life.
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Tags: a gift, disadvantaged, dyslexia, gift, handicapped, handicaps, poor, reading disability, to listen, work ethic
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I encourage others to take vacations for several reasons, the first one being family mental health. The vacation gives you a chance to step off the treadmill that living in a family often becomes. Left behind are the demands of employment, school, endless household management errands, hobbies, TV and volunteer work.
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I had remarried a couple of years before and was busy at home trying to establish a new consulting business. We had a typical family life with three teenagers at home with lots of distractions and noise; it was often hard to concentrate on my work.
My frustration was showing up in ways that I was barely aware of. One day my wife said to me very calmly, “Neill, it’s bothering the kids how you are snapping at them. If you don’t do something about it, you will end up as a lonely, grouchy old man.”
What hit me was the thought that my family would remember me as a grouch. I could not allow that to be my emotional legacy. The internal shift was instantaneous.
Categories: News, Parenting, Self Growth
| Tags: emotional, emotional legacy, family, family life, legacy, my family
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Life is full of events that lead to personal distress. And stress can build upon stress which can lead to marriage problems. If one of you drinks to reduce stress, in time the drinking itself causes stress and becomes a major roadblock to solutions.
Quite naturally, you look around to see what’s causing your distress and the only person there is your spouse, so you instinctively blame him or her for upsetting you.
Categories: Alcoholism and Marriage, Marriage, News
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