High school students experience a season that arrives with a stack of deadlines, essays, and decisions. The college application process starts with excitement about the future and quickly transforms into overwhelming anxiety. These young adults face sleep issues, relationship struggles, and daily functioning troubles related to the pressure to create [...]
If you’ve ever felt your heart racing, your chest tightening, or a sudden wave of fear that seemed to come out of nowhere, you may have experienced an anxiety attack. Many people describe anxiety attacks as feeling like they are losing control, having a heart attack, or even dying. [...]
Many people lie down at night only to find their minds racing with unfinished tasks, worries about tomorrow, or replaying conversations from the day. Sleep becomes a battle instead of a natural reset. You see, anxiety has a way of stealing rest, leaving you drained before the next day even [...]
It’s quite possible that the greatest joy a person can have in life is to bring another human being into the world. The joy and beauty that attend the birth of a child are hard to compare to any other experience. However, the process that comes with it can [...]
There is beauty in relationships between people that can be hard to put into words. We are at our most human when we are in thriving relationships with others, and that is hardwired into us as deeply relational creatures. This makes it all the more unsettling when social interactions [...]
Have you ever wondered if your child was just being shy or reserved, or whether his or her behavior might be a sign of something more, such as social anxiety in children? If so, read on. This article may be for you. A shy child seems hesitant or withdrawn [...]
Play therapy, while often used to help children explore their feelings, can also be highly beneficial for adults dealing with chronic worry. Engaging in playful activities can help adults manage stress, express their emotions, and figure out how to stop worrying. Play therapy is a clinical term used in [...]
When you scroll through your newsfeed on social media, listen to the radio for the top stories, and pick up on what’s trending in the public discourse, does your heart feel settled? For many of us, the world feels unsafe and we feel uncertain of the future. If someone [...]
Amidst the pitch of a noisy world, we also experience a hum of Heaven-to-heart communication. Our hearts talk frequently, but sometimes we don’t hear above the whir of life’s hurried pace. We ignore or desensitize ourselves to the messages, oblivious. That is, until tragedy erupts, or transition ensues. Disruption [...]
A familiar adage asks, “Why put off tomorrow what you can do today?” If procrastination could be summed up in a few words, that phrase would capture it all. Many have been touched by the effects of procrastination. The stress of waiting until the last minute, the angst of [...]
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