by joyreichard | Dec 15, 2016 | Emotional Healing, Personal Growth and Development, self help
For many, the holidays bring up nostalgic memories of family fun and good cheer. For others, it can be a time of loneliness, sadness, and depression. Unfortunately, the holiday blues are a very real phenomenon. Here are some of the risk factors of holiday depression,...
by joyreichard | Nov 17, 2016 | Personal Growth and Development, self help, women in business
Awhile back I had to set a boundary. It was with a colleague whom I liked and respected. Setting that boundary was really tough! Here I was, a ‘mature’ business woman with lots of life experience, who runs her own practice, and is a leader in her...
by joyreichard | Nov 3, 2016 | Emotional Healing, Personal Growth and Development, self help
Two weeks ago I wrote about shame and the many ways that adults live with deep rooted feelings of shame. I pointed out that the shame often comes from the abandonment of the child by a parent. Last week I wrote about how, when shame combines with loneliness and a need...
by joyreichard | Oct 27, 2016 | Emotional Healing, Personal Growth and Development, self help
Last week I wrote about shame and the many ways that adults live with deep-rooted feelings of shame. Shame often comes through the abandonment of the child by parent. There are many ways that parents abandon their child: physical leaving, not modeling emotions, not...
by joyreichard | Oct 20, 2016 | Emotional Healing, Personal Growth and Development, self help
John Bradshaw, author, counselor, theologian, philosopher and teacher, claims that the high rate of dysfunctional families is the source of crisis in child to adult development and functioning. This is because each family has its own social system complete with rules,...
by joyreichard | Oct 10, 2016 | Personal Growth and Development, self help
I was deeply saddened by Trump’s performance in the Presidential Debate on Sunday October 9, 2016, as well as his “locker room bravado.” Trump’s comments would have disappointed many of us mothers if those words had come from our adolescent sons. Yet they...
