The Wellness Diary
Insights, advice, new research, tips and tricks, and new resources to help you with your mental health journey.
Lost Libido: How a Lack of Sex Drive Is Straining My Relationship
On a psychological level, it's important to realize that sex drive is not merely about the physical urges experienced by the body. It's also deeply intertwined with emotional states and relational dynamics. This includes the way you relate to others and how you perceive and manage your inner emotional world. Therefore, understanding sex drive requires a comprehensive exploration of these multifaceted influences.
Discovering Your Influence: Am I Manipulative Quiz
Influence and manipulation, although often linked, are fundamentally different. The main distinction lies in the intent of the manipulator and their respect for the other individual's autonomy. This subsection explores these differences, highlighting the subtle nuances between the two. By doing this, it underlines the importance of ethical persuasion and its role in building trust and promoting open dialogue. Understanding these differences helps us grasp the dynamics of human interaction and emphasizes the need for ethical standards when trying to influence others.
How to Get My Husband on My Side: Navigating Conflicts with Your Partner
This comprehensive blog is designed to illuminate the path to fostering unity and harmony within your marriage. It offers insights, practical advice, and strategies to ensure your marriage doesn't just survive but thrives. It aims to bolster the bond you share, nurture the love you feel for each other, and help you navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of married life.
Recognizing the Signs of Porn Addiction: A Guide for Individuals and Loved Ones
Much like any other form of addiction, whether it be substance abuse or gambling addiction, porn addiction can have profound and far-reaching effects on one's mental health. It can lead to feelings of guilt, shame, and anxiety, and can even contribute to the development of more serious mental health conditions such as depression. Moreover, the consequences extend beyond the individual's mental health. Porn addiction can also have a detrimental impact on an individual's relationships, leading to issues such as mistrust, dissatisfaction, or even breakdowns in relationships. It can also affect one's overall well-being, causing a decrease in productivity, motivation, and satisfaction in other areas of life. The implications of porn addiction are indeed profound and necessitate attention and intervention.
How to Preserve Marriage When Going Through Difficult Life Event
The couple vows to nurture, protect, and grow the marriage. But sometimes, it is challenging to maintain a healthy marriage considering the children, work schedules, and other obligations. Every marriage encounters struggles; the vital thing to note is to face the hardships together.
The Five Love Languages: How They Show Up In Relationships
If you haven’t heard of the five love languages you may not realize how much it is affecting your personal relationships. Dr. Gary Chapman, the author of Five Love Languages, designed this book to help others more effectively communicate love. As humans, we long to love and be loved. With that in mind, everyone expresses and receives love differently. The five love languages are the different types of ways we all receive and express love.
6 Ways to Help Isolated Seniors While Social Distancing
With older adults considered high risk for COVID-19, seniors may want to maintain social distancing. However, even when they can’t be together, families can still support their older loved ones. Here are six ways that you can prevent senior isolation if you’re social distancing.
How To Identify a Karmic Relationship
If you have ever experienced a bond that feels like a magnetic connection, but with a turbulent twist, you are not alone. Karmic relationships are filled with passion and pain, often at the same time.
Getting Over A Break Up: Re-vamping Your Space
When relationships end, people can experience a wide range of emotions, like sadness, anger, or even fear. Even when the relationship wasn’t particularly happy, people might still suffer its loss with feelings that could be best described as grief. It’s not uncommon for people who have recently broken up to feel relieved and enthusiastic about their future one day but might feel sad or even hopeless the next.
Three Simple Ways to Find Calm and Nourish Resilience
Tame anxious thoughts, strengthen emotional agility and cultivate compassion and connection with mindfulness. Practicing mindfulness is a gesture of kindness toward yourself, your family, and your community. Taking time for intentional rest, learning to build emotional agility, and connecting with your undefended heart are the skills that mindfulness practice teaches us.
The Power of Hugs And The Fabulous Health Benefits
Are you a hug or a handshake kind of person? If you’re the latter, you might want to reconsider the power a hug can have on your health. We hug others when we’re excited, happy, sad, or even trying to comfort! Hugging is universally comforting and it makes us feel good. It turns out that hugging is proven to make us healthier, hastier, and happier.
How To Navigate Difficult Breakups
We have all been there. Whether you are the dumper or the dumpee, ending a relationship is
never easy. With breakups skyrocketing during the pandemic, there are so many unanswered
questions that are looming in our minds. There are endless “what ifs” that can never be
answered.
4-Comfortable Sleeping Positions For Couples
We already know that in order for a relationship to last, two people have to be compatible with one another in most things. Their dreams, plans for the future and even sense of humor should match at least a little- but the same applies to sleep habits too.
Understanding Trauma Bonds In Toxic Relationships
Trauma bonding is a psychological response to a form of abuse. It occurs when the abused person forms an unhealthy bond with the person who abuses them. The person experiencing the abuse may develop extreme sympathy for the abusive person, which becomes reinforced by the cycles of abuse, followed by total remorse. Stockholm syndrome is one of a type of trauma bond.
How Financial Worries Can Affect Your Relationship
You might be married to the love of your life, but you’re still your own person. You still have wants, needs, and desires of your own, which is why a lack of financial independence might be causing a rift in your relationship.
5-Tips To Master Non-Violent Communication
Conflict resolution is a difficult skill to master. Especially in the context of romantic relationships. It requires a variety of skills and including but not limited to high levels of self-awareness, the ability to recognize and tolerate uncomfortable emotions, the courage to stand up for what you need while simultaneously empathizing with, understanding, and considering your partner’s needs. It also requires a social tact and the ability to communicate said needs in a way such that your partner will receive them instead of encouraging defensiveness.
How To Up-Level Your Conflict Resolution Strategies
You may prefer one of the conflict resolution strategies discussed over the others, all of these strategies can be used effectively in certain situations. For example, if the issue is minor and won't have lasting consequences, it may be in your best interest to accommodate the other party rather than to try to serve your own needs. However, if the issue is severe and will impact multiple people, it may make sense to choose a strategy with more assertiveness.
4- Ways To Stop Projecting Onto Your Romantic Partners
Projection is the process by which we displace our own feelings, beliefs, values or unmet needs on to others. We do this most often and most intensely with romantic partners. Our mind tricks us into seeing our romantic interest as someone different than who they are. We see them as a “savior”- someone who can alleviate us from our own emotional distress.
Coronavirus: How Does It Affect Communication Skills?
Does coronavirus really affect our communication skills? To answer this question, we look at how drastic changes in the home and business environments amid the COVID pandemic affect communication! Find out more today.
5-Conditions Which Contribute To A Healthy Relationship
The past 40 years have yielded unprecedented knowledge about what we need in order to have “healthy” relationships. In this case, I use the word “healthy” to mean that it is a relationship in which there is a good chance that each person will have their emotional needs met and that the relationship has the potential for long-term happiness.