Toxic Mirror
Social media is particularly harmful to body image because the content encourages unrealistic and narrowly defined beauty standards, and it suggests that achieving the perfect appearance is key to self-worth.
If you feel exhausted from striving to achieve an ideal body type that’s simply unattainable, or if you feel ashamed because you have a particular body type, there are some things you can do!
Here are a few ways to eliminate the toxicity in your social media use and start building a positive body image.
Understanding Anger: Expressing Our Anger Can Help Our Relationship
Anger is a natural emotion that arises when things don’t go how we want or when our needs are unmet. Anger can rise up in us quickly, and we react in ways that we often later regret. It’s how we express our anger, though, that makes a world of difference in how we accomplish our goals.
Finding Balance When We are Stressed, Overwhelmed, and Burnt Out
Here are some tips to find balance and feeling more capable of handling the stresses that life brings.
Stop Making This Big Mistake When You Feel Strong Emotions…and Do This Instead.
Taking responsibility of our emotions empowers us and gives us control over our lives. Recognizing this responsibility frees us to discover more about ourselves and heal from old wounds by seeing where our triggers come from. We see choices we can make in relationships and frees us to express ourselves.
What To Do When You Can’t Forgive Yourself
Our physical and mental health improves when we forgive ourselves. We are more at peace with ourselves and others. Our relationships improve as we have a more positive outlook. Our thinking is clearer.
The Biggest Mistake People Make After They Forgive… and What to do Instead
Too many people think that when you forgive, it means the relationship should just go back to the way it was.
But that’s not always a healthy choice.
To have the relationships we want, we need to learn the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation, and know when it’s appropriate (and when it’s not) to reconcile.
Forgiveness is Hard… and Healthy
Forgiveness is hard. When we forgive quickly, we can enjoy life, be more relaxed, and feel freer. Make forgiveness a regular habit.
5 Tips from a Therapist that Adult Children Can Use to Improve Their Relationship with Their Parents
Conversations about adult children and their parents have been making headlines recently. Some people are wondering whether therapy encourages adult children to distance themselves from their families.
At Light the Way Counseling Center, we believe effective therapy isn't about creating division—it's about helping people build healthier relationships whenever it is safe and possible.
Every family has conflict. Every family experiences misunderstandings. While some relationships require firm boundaries or even distance for safety, many strained relationships can improve through honest communication, greater understanding, emotional healing, and intentional effort from both parents and adult children.
5 Tips to Help Parents and Their Adult Children Improve their Relationship: What Good Therapy Really Encourages
Relationships are hard. As your child grows and matures the changes you see are challenging. As a parent, changes are hard. Allow yourself to mourn the losses of childhood while embracing the new adventures your adult child experiences
Mentally Exhausted? Lack Willpower? Feel Fresher Fast with these Simple Tips!
In a typical day, each of us makes thousands and thousands of decisions. By evening, it’s easy to be mentally fatigued. As this happens day after day, it’s harder and harder to feel fresh at all.
Welcome to decision fatigue.
The Serenity Prayer Part 3 - Wisdom
In the serenity prayer, the author seeks wisdom to know the difference between what he can and cannot change. This is vital. We also need wisdom to help us in many aspects of decision making – the where, when, why, how, and who of life’s questions.
The Serenity Prayer Part 2 - Change
You owe it to yourself to experience the joy and freedom of change in painful areas of your life.