4 Steps to Overcoming the Different Types of Panic Attacks
Imagine waking up at 2:00 a.m. with hundreds of thoughts swirling around in your brain. The thoughts are piercing. It is as if your mind is churning in a blender that will not turn off. It is so loud, almost as if it is jammed in an airhorn that doesn’t stop. You are thinking about a project you forgot to do, a text message (to a sensitive friend) that you forgot to respond to earlier in the day, and worrisome [...]
What is a Life Coach? Help to Do Life Better
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers, they succeed. – Proverbs 15:22 We don’t always have all the answers we need, no matter how smart or wise we may be. It’s one of the ways God keeps us humble through needing other people to speak into our lives or even to give us clarity about what’s in our hearts and minds. Instead of stumbling in the dark on our own, we can look to other people with [...]
Getting Older: What is Successful Aging?
The natural progression of time means we inevitably grow older if the Lord in His grace gives us many years of life. Depending on your goals, how you’ve been socialized, and the messages that we receive about getting older, it may be a welcome development to grow older. While some cultures celebrate old age, cherishing the elderly and the life wisdom they’ve accumulated, others seem to look at aging as something to avoid and push off for as long as [...]
Relationship Issues: Biblical Wisdom for Life
Human beings are, by virtue of our makeup, called into community and relationships. Having been made in God’s image, we are relational by nature and gravitate toward relationships with others - “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). However, living as we do in the aftermath of Genesis 3, it’s not surprising that our various relationships (whether with our friends, spouses, colleagues, neighbors [...]
10 Tips for Successful Aging
When maintaining health is of the utmost importance, reevaluating your current health, and preparing for the aging process is crucial. Aging is inevitable; however, we can control our behaviors and habits that will result in successful aging for a longer better life. By doing everything we can to maintain (or gain) a healthy body and outlook, we can reduce our risk of several diseases and conditions. These conditions are often seen in the older population, such as high blood pressure, [...]
Striving Toward Personal Development at Work
When we embark upon a career, few of us want to remain in the same place until we retire. While we might continue to do the same job, we want to increase our levels of responsibility, make a difference through our profession, and be able to meet our needs while finding some level of fulfillment and personal development and growth from our work. Increasingly, though, people are finding themselves changing jobs more often, or having multiple jobs at the same [...]