Are you ready to change how you feel inside? One of the phrases I hear often is “this hurts.” This week, several people have expressed “I am so tired. I feel out of hope.” The last thing you need is…
For “Letting Go Hurts.”
Tag: ending emotional pain
Learning to Trust the Journey
Trust the journey. I thought of this idea today, on the first day that I find myself back in an old familiar space…in my office, the one that my husband painted “happy yellow,” decorated high on the walls with…
For “Breaking Up is Hard” Second Hand Love, Pt 2
How can you make a major life change amidst emotionally charged circumstances and maintain a feeling of healthy, viable sanity? No matter what is changing in your life, there are things that you can do to aid your own resilience…
For “The Other Woman” … Second Hand Love, Part One
When you say the words “the other woman/man,” our culture immediately conjures up the idea of a demented mistress that is out to boil the rabbits of children everywhere. The “other woman” is a black widow spider, a thief and…
How Do I Find My Purpose? Look to Your Words!
We live in a world comprised of words. We murmur them in our sleep, and moan them in pain. We use them to convey every emotion, even when we withhold them to prove our point. We use words to symbolize…
Recovering Your Inner Power After Letting Go, Part One
It’s been a week of letters from an emotional cliff side, a place that I once spent about a year in. This article is for all we THM’ers out there, who are on the journey to “Letting Go and Growing Strong.”…
After Letting Go: Life, Redefined
If I asked you to tell me about your life, what would you say? Would I hear about your accomplishments, your family, your dreams? Would you tell me of your heartaches, loss or needs? How do you define your life…
For “Heart Broken” and “Somebody That I Used to Know.”
Across the world, men and women have spent hours this week writing in to THM about the heartbreak of loss, love and life changed. To each of you, I’ve promised a specific response that takes time and thought; many of…
The Greatest Gift of All
For all of you across the world, I wish you the happiest of moments on this advent eve. Here at THM we deal with some pretty raw feelings of loss and love gone wrong, broken hearts and people cast aside…
For “All the Right Things, All the Right Reasons.”
It’s the state of the American family in hundreds of thousands of households from California to New York. Life has a tendency in this down economy to press in on family life. The added pressure of devalued currency, a rise…
How do we G.R.O.W? Life in Learn Mode with “Goals”
In the world of positive psychology, you are what you think. It is not the magic trick in the hat sort of thinking, but a structured and definite way to learn and live in life. When is this really helpful? …
For “Help Me Mend My Broken Heart.”
Bess Myerson once wrote that “to fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” Especially if you were that person who wanted the relationship to last, were willing to be and stay through…
Rethinking “Possibility”
Possibility is the condition or fact of anything you can imagine being possible. The Latin origins of the word hint at ability, as in your ability to see beyond the right now into the coming; past the problems of the…
Getting to Know You: The Brave New World of Emotional Intimacy
I miss you. I thought the words, said them out loud and heard his sigh on the other end of the phone. The sigh was “I don’t know how to fix this.” It was about two years ago; the strain…
10 Tips for Giving and Getting Emotional Support
From our friends at Psychology Today come ten really useful tips on how to purposefully construct a relationship where emotional support is both two way and important. The following was written by Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D. in Emotional Fitness (Source http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/emotional-fitness/200908/10-tools-giving-and-getting-emotional-support)…