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Barriers to Wellness

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Are You Sabotaging Yourself?
Habitual lateness. Extreme disorganization. Not following up sales leads. This quiz helps to identify how we might be sabotaging our own efforts.
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Befriending Anger
Anger is the unannounced visitor that keeps dropping by, again and again. Some people hide, hoping this troublesome guest will go away. Others let it take over, turning their homes into a nightly rage-fest. Thankfully, there is an alternative.
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Burnout
Burnout has more to do with attitudes, work styles, and behavior than with any specific job situation. Article explores warning signs and eight ways to avoid burnout.
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Healing From Trauma
Two people are robbed at gunpoint. One experiences overwhelming helplessness and has a difficult month. The other experiences intense rage, and years later still struggles with the trauma. How can she heal as well?
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Helping Children Through the Hazards of Divorce
Research shows that children of divorce can suffer serious emotional consequences, some of them long-term. But parents can help mitigate the potential trauma. Here are ways to begin.
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How Well Do You Deal With Worry?
Worry can help us to anticipate danger or it can be a harmful source of stress. This quiz helps determine where one falls on the continuum and also offers practical suggestions for handling worry.
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How Well Do You Handle Anxiety?
Anxiety is a normal emotion that most people experience. It becomes a problem when it interferes with a person's daily functioning. This quiz will help determine if anxiety is having that kind of impact.
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How Well Do You Handle Fear?
At its best, fear is an instinctive ability that aids human survival. At its worst, it’s that nagging internal voice that heralds doom and disaster for no good reason.
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How (Well) Do You Handle Overwhelm?
Overwhelm can leave a person feeling helpless. But there are ways to cope and even thrive.
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Internet Addition
Every day, millions of people come home from work or school, boot up their computers and enter a world we wouldn’t have dreamed of twenty years ago. It’s a world that brings up new issues as well as old ones in new garb.
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“Normal” Is a Very Big Playing Field
Susan talks to her grandmother’s ghost. Jamie has 60 potted plants around her house—all in purple pots. Are they normal?
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Overcoming the Obstacles to Midlife Career Change
Making a career change in midlife can bring new energy and joy, so what’s stopping us?
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Perfectionist Quiz
There's a difference between excellence and perfection. Striving to be really good is excellence; trying to be flawless is perfectionism. This quiz will help a person determine if he or she is striving for the unattainable.
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Play to Your Strengths
In order to succeed we have to conquer our weaknesses, right? Wrong. Our strengths will set us free.
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Practice Gratitude and Create Well-Being
Long considered a virtue, gratitude is now also a tool for a happier life.
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Recognizing Victimhood
Samantha doesn’t realize it, but there’s a victim lurking inside her.
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Saving Ourselves from Self-Sabotage
Is there any relief from the snake of self-destruction that coils in many of us? This article can help.
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Self-Talk’s Role in Relapse
“I’ll just have one. It’s no big deal.” But it is a big deal, and in no time, the decision to quit an addiction has fallen by the wayside.
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Summertime Drinking: When is it a Problem?
Summer brings more leisure time, longer daylight hours—and more drinking. When does increased drinking indicate a problem?
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Ten Fears That Keep Us From What We Want
Fear is an important survival technique that kept humans from getting eaten by bigger animals and that prevents people from jumping off cliffs. But what about those fears that purport to keep people safe, but actually keep them stuck?
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Test Your Temper
How does one determine if anger is a problem? And if it is, what can one do about it? The quiz will help.
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Top 10 Addiction Clues
How can a person know if a loved one has an addiction? This article lists ten common signs.
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Top 10 Barriers to Connection
Avoiding these ten behaviors can greatly improve relationships.
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Top 10 Tips for Moving Through Depression
Connection, physicality, even singing; here are ten ways to lighten the dark.
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Top 10 Ways to Lower Stress
From the ongoing stress that comes from living in our high-impact culture to those life events that knock us for a loop, the impact of stress accumulates. Here are ten ways to return to balance.
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Those Holiday Blues are Real
It s not unusual to feel down during the holidays, but the blues don t have to ruin the holiday season. The first step is recognizing the symptoms and then taking some action and getting help.
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Top 10 Sources of Stress
Many people would find it surprising and enlightening to realize that stress is more often caused by internal pressure and anxiety than by external circumstances.
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When Depression is Mild
At some time during the course of daily affairs, nearly every human being experiences feelings of depression — sadness, discouragement, the blues. What can one do to cope with or alleviate mild depression? And when do the blues constitute a serious illness?
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