With your new marriage, you’ve blended your families together to form a new one. A blended family, like any other family, has its ups and its downs. Keeping the relationships healthy takes work. Evaluate yourself on how well you work at keeping healthy relationships within your blended family with these ideas in mind. Keep communication open. This is…
With back to school just around the corner, our team of experts at Family Restoration Counseling Services would like to provide you with steps to make this year as successful and painless as possible. Here are few tips to help get you started: Routine: It can be helpful to begin shifting from the late nights…
Couple’s therapy is a scary thought for some people to consider. Let seeking help for your relationship be a promising thought, not a scary one. If you and your partner seem to have the same fight over and over with no resolution, couple’s therapy can help you. Knowing that you, and hopefully your partner, are considering therapy is reassuring. You love and care about each other enough to fix the…
Everyone has moments of anxiety or nervousness. Whether caused by a brief, stressful situation or a prolonged traumatic event, everyone experiences the feelings of worry, dread, and fear from time to time. However, it’s when these feelings begin to take over and affect your life in a negative way that it may be much more than a…
Marriage is both a commitment, and an institution. It isn’t something to be entered into lightly. Even if you think you have what it takes to go the distance, though, it’s important to make sure you do an inventory of your relationship. Because forever is a long time. 7 Tips For A Lasting Marriage Tip…
Everyone has experienced anxiety at some point in their lives. Some suffer from anxiety chronically. Many have heard someone utter the phrase “I think I’m having a panic attack.” Perhaps you think you have had one yourself. How does one know and what’s the difference between anxiety symptoms and a panic attack? The Anxiety and…
Imagine a 33-year-old woman. She had just gone through the breakup of a three-year relationship that was even more devastating to her than her divorce almost 10 years earlier. She had lost not only a boyfriend. She had lost her best friend, the one she talked to every day, the one she leaned on. And…
Grief and loss are a natural part of being human. At some point, we all experience the loss of something or someone we love, and it’s only natural to feel devastated afterwards. Feelings of grief and loss can arise from many situations, like the death of a pet or loved one, a breakup or divorce,…
Standing up for yourself in the adolescents phase of like, and being assertive, is an important part of communication. As Psychology Today points out, what you’re doing when you stand up for yourself is saying that you matter. You’re saying that your needs matter, and your perspective should be considered. However, if you’ve done that,…
In the modern world, we regularly have to deal with change as well as a constant stream of new information. Anxiety is becoming more and more prevalent. With things like smart phones and the Internet, it’s the easiest it’s ever been to find yourself overwhelmed by — well, words. Tech 21 Century says , “people receive every day…