Have you ever had one of those mornings, where the alarm didn’t go off and you woke up late? As you rush around getting ready, you spill coffee on my only clean white blouse that matches my black and white poke-a-dot skirt. Now you are even more stressed….
A 2018 study published in Socius that was led by Daniel Carlson of the University of Utah found that couples now share more household tasks than they did in the 1990’s and this had a positive effect for couple relationships, including couple’s sex lives.
With the holidays and end of the year quickly approaching, this is a great time to reflect on and develop my feelings of thankfulness. This may seem like a simple and maybe even cliché concept, but in reality it is something that can truly affect my sense of well-being from the inside out.
I paused and I looked up and in that moment I saw the beauty that surrounded me– I took in the crisp scents of the evening air and listened to the rustling of the bushes in the breeze. It was a feeling of total peace—a moment of clarity in the fog.
People who pay attention to what they did wrong, or what they could have done, are at risk for prolonged periods of sadness, feelings of helplessness and anxiety. Thankfully, deepening my understanding, and awareness, of how we explain adverse life events will lead to shifts in my thinking and ease my anxiety.
Loneliness has been discussed recently as a major problem, not just for my society, but for my health. It is a predictor of premature death and is a bigger risk factor than obesity in this regard; it is the equivalent of smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day