By Gertrude: When we speak in terms of traumatic stress, often we first think of life and death situations. When we are grieving for a broken relationship, it is one of the most stressful times of our lives. Like the stages of grief, we experience stages when we are moving on from a relationship. It read more…
By Bridgette: Addiction is unhealthy and an unhelpful behavior that needs something outside of itself in order to feel a sense of connectedness. Some kinds of addictions are sex, love, alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, food, porn, gambling, internet, shopping etc. What I know from personal experience, is that if we don’t have the thing that we read more…
By Counselor Karen: We are all guilty of wanting something or someone so bad that we allow ourselves to push that thing or person away in fear of the rejection that we think is going to happen. But what if we faced those fears and risked that rejection? What if we saw the truth that read more…
By Esther: Firstly the question is – What qualifies an Addict? An addict in effect is actually a slave and this comes from the Roman times and therefore a Latin word. When Roman generals had succeeded in taking over a neighboring territory, the conquered soldiers and citizens were brought before him for sentencing. The general pronounced read more…
