EMOTIONAL HEALTH FOR MOMS
Emotional health is not just about mental health, it is about our overall functioning. Our mood, the way we manage day-to-day challenges, how we recover from set backs are all determined by our emotional well being.
The articles you will find on these page are about taking care of your own emotional needs first. For moms, this is a must! You set the tone for your family. If you are happy, your family is happy. If you are grumpy, your children are grumpy.
Motherhood is the biggest job in the world, and to give it your best, you must be at your best. To be at your best, you must give yourself the best care. Your own well being makes this possible.
Furthermore, the example you set of an adult woman will be the one your children hold on to and copy. If you allow yourself to be taken advantage of or taken for granted, if you sacrifice your own well being and allow your health to be compromised, your daughters will probably do the same and this is what your sons will expect from their own wives.
By seeing to your own emotional health, you are able to offer your children the best example AND lay the groundwork for their life-long well being.
Here are some important emotional and mental health issues for women that you may want to learn more about.
Depression in Women. The Symptoms and Treatment
Knowing the symptoms of depression in women is important for all moms. Learn what to look for and where to start for treatment.
Assertiveness for Women: Improving Emotional Health
Assertiveness may not be easy, but developing communication skills to get what you want and need will have huge benefits for you and your family.
Marriage Help through Active Listening
True marriage help comes with real work and good intentions. The active listening skills in Harville Hendrix’s “Couple (Imago) Dialogue” lays the groundwork for creating a happy marriage.
Anxiety Symptoms: They Are Not Always Bad.
Although our anxiety symptoms can interfere with our life, their real purpose is to keep us safe. Out fight or flight response is a well organized and highly adaptive system of bodily reactions.
Tend and Befriend Rather Than Fight or Flight
Tend and Befriend is a concept that is helping women understand and reduce their own stress levels in a way that the traditionally accepted Fight of Flight never could.
When Does Anxiety Become An Anxiety Disorder?
Anxiety disorders occur when our natural and necessary survival reactions become over active and interfere with our life. Learn how to indentify common anxiety disorders and what to do about it.
The Cracked Pot
Here is a delightful tale from India about embracing all of your strengths--even the ones you did not know you had!
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