Mood disorders are not the same as changes in mood. Treatment for mood swings depends on what is causing them. If they are transient (lasting a short time)—for example, caused by a period of extreme stress—they will likely pass once the stress subsides. Mood changes that are fast, with abrupt swings in your mood or emotional state, may be a normal response to stress or hormonal shifts. While mood can […]

How many times have you stayed absolutely silent when someone hurt your feelings, when someone crossed the line? How many times have you ignored a behavior because you didn’t want the discomfort of a disagreement? How many times have you tried to convince yourself that you weren’t upset and you weren’t angry? Do you ever feel like you put your foot in your mouth? At some time or another we’ve all found ourselves […]

When facing challenges and taking calculated risks, it’s important to push yourself beyond your comfort zone in order to achieve success. Embracing challenges and taking risks can have numerous benefits, such as: By stepping outside your comfort zone, you can develop new skills, gain confidence, and expand your capabilities. Embracing challenges forces you to think outside the box and come up with innovative solutions. It encourages creativity and fosters a […]

It’s pretty safe to say that the vast majority of us want to have a healthy relationship. One that is built on the principles of trust, dependability, realistic expectations, deep caring, and a positive outlook. But, often, we don’t know how to go about getting the kind of relationship we want. We learn about relationship from those around us—family and friends. We observe how others interact in intimate relationships. We […]

Which approach is wiser? Will you succeed without using leverage? Maybe. But you can lift so much more with leverage, and do it so much more easily! By applying the concept of leverage to business and career success, you can, with a little thought, accomplish very much more than you can without it. Time leverage is the ability to maximize every second and minute to achieve optimal outcomes. Time, that […]

If you’ve been working as hard as you can but find yourself unable to reach success, take a step back, and analyze your methods. Is there something you’re doing wrong? Is there something you can improve on? How can you work smarter instead of harder? Be kind to yourself! Success will come if you know the right ingredients to it. The world tends to see success through a very narrow […]

Physical behaviors, as opposed to words, are used to express or convey information. Such behavior includes facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space. The term body language is usually applied in regard to people but may also be applied to animals. The study of body language is also known as kinesics. Although body language is an important part of communication, most of it happens […]

It’s pretty safe to say that the vast majority of us want to have a healthy relationship—one that satisfies both equally. One that is built on the principles of trust, dependability, realistic expectations, deep caring, and a positive outlook. But, often, we don’t know how to go about getting the kind of relationship we want. We learn about relationship from those around us—family and friends. We observe how others interact […]

It often falls to one partner to arrange everything. Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn’t love you. Planning trips or dates, picking up food for dinner, checking in when you haven’t talked in a few days, initiating sex — it may seem as if the relationship would collapse entirely if you stopped working to sustain it. People […]

I think there is a pretty simple explanation to this. You just need to look at it from a different angle. Underneath the veil of a “don’t care” attitude is a person that knows what they do care about. The way they conduct themselves aligns with their own set of personalized values. While it may seem like they do not care about something, it is superseded by something else that […]