Category: Dealing with Negative Emotions

  • When you feel you have been wronged

    Have you ever been in the receiving end of any of the following: Unfair treatment or unjust punishment Been on the receiving end of racism, feminism or any ‘ism’ Been side-lined for promotion Made to feel small or insignificant Been set up Been cheated on And so on? The list is endless. But just how…

  • What Makes us Easily Stop Believing in Ourselves?

    What Makes us Easily Stop Believing in Ourselves?

    I attended a speaking conference recently.  One of the speakers said something that grabbed my attention – often the reason why one can get depressed is because we stop believing in ourselves.  I think that is profound.  Here was this speaker who had mingled with the superstars of the world.  At the time she had…

  • What to do to Stop putting your Life on Hold

    What to do to Stop putting your Life on Hold

    Last time, we got talking on identifying if we were putting our life on hold.  People get depressed when they procrastinate on what they know they should be doing.  Often fear is one factor that prevents them from taking that leap. ##1 Identify in what way you may be putting your life on hold Make…

  • Stop Putting your Life on Hold

    Stop Putting your Life on Hold

    I’ll go back to college once the kids are grown I’ll do xxxx when I have the money I can’t go to college because I don’t have the grades Sounds familiar?  Yes, we can put our life on hold at times waiting for perfect conditions.  Perfect conditions that never come.  And then we later feel…

  • 7 Things to Remember when People are Mean to You

    When others are mean, it can get us feeling low, sad, inferior and even depressed.  No, here are 7 things you must remember, when people are mean to you.  

  • When others let us down

    Many years ago, someone broke my heart. Yeah, you have heard the headlines several times before but I have never given the details. Well that is not going to happen today either…! Anyway, at the time, it felt like someone had reached out, smashed my ribs and ripped my heart out and dared to trample…