Hope for Relationships

The whole-person approach to healing

Gregory L. Jantz Ph.D.

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Light Therapy Treatment and Seasonal Affective Disorder

Getting enough sunlight is important for staving off depression. Light therapy is used to treat SAD, as well as other types of depression.

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Help Is a Three-Step Process

Help is not always something you’re willing to accept. Help is a three-step process.

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The New Face of Anxiety

Technology has introduced formidable challenges to treatment. It has also inspired a more intense focus from mental health professionals. Promisingly, new techniques have emerged.

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The Fear of Rejection in Addiction

Admitting an addiction to yourself can be extraordinarily difficult because of the terrifying possibility of rejection. Admitting it to others can seem like walking over hot coals.

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Why Abused Children May Strive for Perfection

Abused children become the receptacle of all sorts of blame. In an attempt to control their situation, some children will try to attain perfection.

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How Worry Makes Its Way In

A negative pattern of worry can be established in childhood, based on life circumstances, experiences, and perceptions.

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Codependency and Emotional Abuse

In codependent relationships, the needs of one person being filled by the other are unhealthy or inappropriate.

Simplifying Your Life Financially

The top two sources of stress for Americans have to do with money: people worry about their finances in general and about the jobs they have to provide those finances.

Cognitive Healing From Childhood Abuse

One challenge of recovery from childhood abuse lies in this cognitive dissonance between what an abused child comes to believe as true and the truth of the broader world.

The Effect of Stress from Childhood Abuse

Fear, uncertainty, anger, and frustration can be the by-products of abuse that don’t fade but instead build over time. A person in constant stress mode sees danger everywhere.

Negotiating with Your Teenager

Your child is not your enemy. You have to be willing to negotiate and prepare your own thoughts and reasons for why you say what you do and to share those reasons with your child.

Are You Getting Enough Sleep?

Sleep deprivation has been linked to increases in depression, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, as well as memory and cognitive problems.

Teenagers and Their Quest to Find Themselves

All teens will go off into the big, wide world as they journey to discover who they are. So be aware of where they go and whom they align themselves with.

Say Farewell to Emotional Exhaustion

Stop letting other people, present circumstances, or ghosts of your past dictate your life. Be willing to let go and no longer be paralyzed by perfectionism.

Patience: A Wise Response to Life

In today’s society, we have come to expect the instantaneous, the rapid, the quick, the get-it-done-right-now. We are simply impatient people.

Defining Limits on Technology as a Family

When limits for technology are being defined, all members of the family need to be considered. You want to guide your family in how to best integrate technology.

Eight Traits of People With Healthy Self-Esteem

Heightened self-esteem comes about by continuing to take those baby steps, then making small decisions and seeing small results.

Maintaining Self-Control and Sexual Integrity

You can set the tone for most of your relationships. Conducting yourself in an aboveboard manner shows that you respect yourself and others.

Are You Showing Signs of Stress?

We’re stressed out, and that negatively affects our health, which contributes to even more stress. This spiral is not headed in a good direction. What does stress do to us?

The Power of Positive Self-Talk

One of the ways to recognize, promote, and sustain optimism, hope, and joy is to intentionally fill our thoughts with positive self-talk.

Have We Learned to Ignore Emotional Abuse?

Emotional abuse is like the parable—pervasive, self-perpetuating, and so common that everyone can relate to it. In fact, that’s part of the problem: it is so common.

A Checklist for Recovery

Move from using food to self-medicate your pain to looking at eating as an art. Incorporate this checklist for recovery to continue the healing from an eating disorder.

9 Ways to Respond When Someone Hurts You

Being able to put your past abuse into perspective doesn’t mean you will be immune from being hurt in the present. Here are nine steps to help you move towards forgiveness.

9 Things That Dependent People Will Do

Try to recognize your own dependent qualities before falling into relationship dependency.

What is Emotional Abuse?

Emotional abuse undercuts a person’s foundational self-confidence and love of self and replaces them with confusion about self-worth, value, justice, mercy, and love.

Male-Female Interactions: Don’t Get Your Signals Crossed

In any relationship the interaction between individuals is carried out through both words and actions. It is not only what is said but also the way it is said.

How to Help Prepare Boys For Success in the School System

Our sons love to learn. They are seekers and searchers. The world is interesting to them. Numbers, rocks, trees, mountains, computers, games, thoughts, visions, life’s mysteries – anything and everything can fascinate them, including school.

The Role of the Brain in Love and Relationship Dependency

Have you trained your brain to want dependent relationships? Understanding the factors – emotional and physical – that contribute to certain behaviors, either within a single relationship or within a relationship revolving door, are important.

Dreadful Companions Called Fear, Guilt and Shame

Along with anger comes companion emotions that need to be examined as you heal from your eating disorder or disordered eating. Anger can be an immediate response to pain in your life. Fear, guilt and shame, however, follow close behind.

Maintaining Self-Control With a Superior

Are you struggling with a disrespectful supervisor? These tips can help you.

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