Introduction to Life Issues
Welcome to our Life Issues topic area. Life issues are common problems, issues and/or crises that happen to normal people living normal lives. Examples include managing one's relationships so that they are healthy and functional, surviving disabilities, coping with grief, loss and self-esteem issues.
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How can I better deal with problems and issues in life?
- Life issues are common problems, issues and/or crises that happen to normal people living normal lives.
- Examples include managing one's relationships so that they are healthy and functional, surviving disabilities, coping with grief, loss and self-esteem issues.
- A person's ability to be grateful is quite independent of that person's possession of things to be grateful about.
- Keeping life?s basics in mind helps us to steer in the right direction, even when the going gets tough.
- Finding your purpose and making a difference in the world can easily get buried in the landfill of daily life.
- Studies show that cultivating gratitude and gladness has lasting and important benefits, including lifting your mood, increasing satisfaction with life, and building resilience.
- When we deliberately slow down, we are forced to make decisions about how we will use our limited time.
- Making a stress-management plan takes a little work, but it can really pay off in terms of your health, stress levels and self-esteem.
- In order to move forward when life veers off track, we must learn to first acknowledge and tolerate that life has handed us an unexpected and unwelcome circumstance.
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Articles
- Introduction to Life Issues
- Gratitude: The Antidote To Desire
- Just Say No Applied: How to be Assertive
- Navigating Life's Challenges
- What Will You Do With the Rest of Your Life?
- The Importance of Gratitude and Gladness for a Happy Life
- Slowing Your Life to Enjoy it More and Get More Done
- Improving the Quality of Life as We Age
- Ask the Stress Doc Q & A: How to Decide on a Career
- When Life Veers Off Track: Accepting and Tolerating the Unexpected
- Self-Help For The Holidays
- The Procrastination Puzzle: To Do, Not to Do or Deep Doodoo
- The Virtues Of Endurance, Acceptance And Structure
- Three Part Harmony: TV, Tea and Natural Me
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Questions and Answers
- Trying to Forget
- Please Help Me..
- Was my therapist wrong or am I just freaking out?
- Boyfriend's skeletons and friends' opinions
- Helping my almost 19 year old daughter face the real world
- Love but Different Religions
- What is wrong with me? I Don't care anymore...
- Cannot support old friend in her affair
- What Is A 'Complex'?
- Friend's Downward Spiral
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- Out Of Control Friend
- Seriously Jealous
- Antisocial And Uncommunicative
- Emotional Orphan
- Possessive Ex-Girlfriend
- Delusional Friend
- Delusional Friend
- Dirty Niece
- Lying About Illness
- Absence of Closeness
- Heart of Darkness
- Suicidal Teen
- How Can I Help My Friend?
- Am I Happy?
- Cruel Friend
- Angry But Over-Controlled
- Single, Stressed And Guilty
- Getting Beyond This
- It's Hard To Trust Again
- Reader Comment #1
- Obsessive Love
- I'm Attracted To My Therapist
- Not Allowed To Contact My Boyfriend
- Am I Paranoid?
- I Love My Therapist
- Language Fluency Envy
- Security Blanket
- Her Only Friend
- How To Become Empathic
- Did He Or Didn't He?
- Making Friends
- Procrastination
- Freshman in Love
- Externalization
- Ms. Misery
- Haunted College Student
- Professional Boundaries
- Pushy Friend
- Absent Therapist
- Obsession
- Suicide Threat Relationships (a long one)
- Trust
- Compulsive Lying
- I Can't Tell a Lie
- Procrastination
- Blushing
- Energy Draining Friend
- Drinking Problem
- Terminal Procrastinator
- Shy Guy
- Toxic People
- Depression and Friendship
- Help Yourself by Helping Others
- Public Display
- Why Am I Running Away?
- How Can I Help My Friend?
- Wealth Envy
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Miss Lonely
- Dual Relationship
- So-Called
- Is She Playing Hard to Get?
- Falling for My Mentor
- Teacher's Pet?
- Reunited
- Someone Else's Love
- My Sense of Humor...
- I'm a Homebody...
- Remember Me?
- Friend's New Fling
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Book & Media Reviews
- A Parliament of Minds
- Acts of God
- ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
- After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
- Boomers Really Can Put Old On Hold
- Bread Upon the Waters
- Breaking Murphy's Law
- Caring in Remembered Ways
- Chained to the Desk
- Change Your Age
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- Choosing Civility
- Contentious Issues
- Creative Thinkering
- Crossing the Unknown Sea
- Embarrassing Medical Problems
- Ethics for Everyone
- Ethics for the New Millennium
- Exuberance
- Fast Food for the Soul
- Fat Shame
- Fear and Other Uninvited Guests
- Fitting In Is Overrated
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- I'd Rather Laugh
- In Love With Life
- Life Coaching
- Life Makeovers
- Life, Sex, and Ideas
- Living the Truth
- Loneliness
- Lonely
- Love Your Body, Love Your Life
- Mad House
- Manic Depression
- Meaning, Mortality, and Choice
- Mindfulness for Urban Depression: Tools for Relief from Stressful City Living
- Outliers
- Philosophical Practice
- Philosophy and Living
- Philosophy and This Actual World
- Procrastination
- Quitting the Nairobi Trio
- Ready for Anything
- Relationship Rescue
- Rescuing Jeffrey
- Seven Life Lessons from Noah's Ark
- Shooter
- Song for Eloise
- The Art of Exceptional Living
- The Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management
- The Five Things We Cannot Change ...
- The Healing Power of Pets
- The Introvert Advantage
- The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
- The Little Book of Heartbreak
- The Pocket Life Coach
- The Power of Full Engagement
- The Psychology of Lifestyle
- The Relevance of Philosophy to Life
- The Soul Knows No Bars
- The Weblog Handbook
- The World of Caffeine
- The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
- There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
- Transformation
- Waking Up to What You Do
- Way to Be!
- What the Birds See
- What's Holding You Back?
- Why We Love
- Wisdom, Intuition and Ethics
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Links
- [1] Associations
- [5] Information
- [9] Videos
- [3] Blogs
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Videos
- 10 Thoughts that Can Destroy Relationships
- Acute Grief: The Initial Response to Bereavement
- We don't "move on" from grief - We move forward with it
- Social Interaction When You Have Low Self-Esteem
- Meet Yourself: A User's Guide to Building Self-Esteem
- The 6 Pillars of Self-Esteem
- 12 Suggestions for Dealing with Grief and Loss
- Self-Esteem
- Relationships Are Hard, But Why?
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