Our jobs serve an important purpose in our lives.Your job gives you somewhere to be each day, personal satisfaction and sense of worth, money to pay for all that you need and a social network. But for many of us, our jobs are filled with causes of stress and concerns. We spend our days worried [...]
Contentment is the secret to a life that’s healthy and hearty. However, life may never be as pleasant if you spend every day in melancholy detachment. For those of us who find it challenging to smile each day, there’s hope. There’s a way to stay joyful every day and discover sufficient factors to smile. Read [...]
Jerry and Sarah have been married for eight years. They wanted to experience some fun and excitement before they decided to have children and so they consciously established an extraordinarily vigorous social life.
The principal difficulty, it needs to be highlighted, is that almost everything they do to have fun somehow involves drinking. For instance, all [...]
For several years alcohol addiction research has demonstrated the fact that there is strong association between alcoholism and dangerous health conditions and mental health issues such as depression.
For instance, in 2005, scientific research and alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics showed that alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency cost the United States an estimated $220 billion per [...]
The medical establishment defines a number of illness and medical conditions as “silent killers.” Medical illnesses such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, heart disease, obstructive sleep apnea, mesothelioma and a number of different kinds of cancer such as colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, and rectal cancer are fairly well known silent [...]
How many individuals lose their lives every year because of drinking problems? How many people lose their lives each year from a condition that is 100% preventable, such as alcohol poisoning? How many people are the victims of alcohol related crime or violence each and every year? How many individuals get injured or lose their [...]
Executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith wrote, “Feedback is a gift that only other can give.” If that is so, why do so many people have trouble giving and receiving feedback? A lot of it has to do with power. When we give feedback we may really be trying to control people. Our resistance to [...]
How do you identify the fact that you have a drinking problem? When is it apparent that you are involving yourself in abusive drinking?
If you have hopelessly tried to stop drinking or if you have given your word to yourself that your drinking days are terminated and then you were made aware that you were [...]
Nearly all of us will find ourselves at some point in a violent situation as, sometimes, avoiding a fight is simply out of the question. The steps listed in this article regarding how to defend yourself are merely guidelines. Draw what you can from them and create your own strategy in defending yourself. Remember though [...]
Teresa was a thirty-year-old administrative assistant who realized that she had some problems with her drinking. As an illustration, within the past seven months she has experienced the need to have one or two drinks before going to work, four months ago she failed to pass a random breathalyzer test at work, two months ago [...]
