Kate Motaung

Your mental and emotional health determines how well you bounce back from disappointments, hurts, trauma, and betrayal. It directly impacts your well-being. Mental and emotional health in turmoil can make a person physically ill. For example, suppose you develop anxiety from too much stress over a long period. In that case, you might experience headaches, high blood pressure, rapid heart rate, excessive sweating, insomnia, and irritability. To keep your well-being at optimal levels, consider setting goals for your mental

Feeling down after a breakup is a typical emotion. You invested time and energy into a relationship that did not work out. But some breakups hit harder than others. After a breakup, you may go through the stages of grief: shock (denial), anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Many of us get stuck in the depression stage of the process. This pervasive sadness steals our motivation and stops us from living life. However, depression after a breakup is not the

Depression is one of several mental health diagnoses that build momentum from the sadness, anger, and hopelessness that it deposits in those who experience it. Its symptoms influence our moods, behaviors, and bodies, leaving us as an exhausted, irritable shell of ourselves. It persuades us to trade our status as beloved sons and daughters for diminished esteem and enhanced distrust of God, ourselves, and others. As a result, we experience fragmented thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that isolate us from

Are you and your partner increasingly at odds with one another? Do you wonder if couples therapy might be able to help? According to the American Psychological Association, couples therapy is effective at restoring relationships approximately 75 percent of the time. But the key is not to wait too long. Love is a feeling, but a healthy relationship is a skill. – Linda Carroll, LMFT The longer you wait, the more deep-rooted bad habits become and the harder it

The idea of mental health can sometimes seem difficult to fully comprehend. It encompasses so many aspects of our lives and wellness we can struggle to see how they all work together. Even more significantly, we can struggle to grasp how they impact our emotional, social, mental, and physical wellness. There can often be two extremes when it comes to considering your mental health. The first is denial that anything could be amiss. When you are operating with this

According to the Mayo Clinic, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) describes a neurodevelopmental disorder which affects how a person perceives and responds to others in social situations. People with ASD often have problems with social communication and interaction with others, which can cause issues in forming and maintaining relationships with others. ASD is often accompanied by repetitive and limited patterns of behavior, and people with ASD will also often have different ways of moving, paying attention and learning. The term

Getting older can be a very difficult process for your parents and comes with inevitable changes in their minds and their bodies. Forgetfulness, repeating the same questions, getting regularly lost while driving, keeping up with housework, and remembering to pay bills are common signs of aging. Aging can also make some people more withdrawn, suspicious, or paranoid. When these situations surface adult children are increasingly confronted with questions of whether it is safe for their parent to continue driving

If you are searching for natural remedies for anxiety, you have come to the right place. Anxiety is a common response to stress or danger. Almost everyone experiences it at one time or another. However, when it becomes excessive or disproportionate to the circumstances, it can harm your physical and mental well-being, sap your energy, and turn into an anxiety disorder that interferes with your ability to cope with day-to-day life. Different people experience anxiety in different ways. Symptoms

Depression can be a fog. At times it sneaks in and changes your whole day. You go from feeling ready to take on the world to feeling like you can’t take a step. Depression lurks before you get out of bed telling you this is how today is going to be. If you are a creative person, depression can zap you dry. You can go from being on a creative high to having nothing to say (or paint, draw,

Katie is a mother of two beautiful children, happily married, and with an enjoyable career. Her life seemed perfect. However, if you were to ask Katie, she would tell you she’s anxious. She doesn’t know when exactly the anxiety started. She remembers being an anxious child. Sometimes her anxiety gets the best of her, and she begins to worry aloud in front of her husband Kevin. He tries to listen sympathetically but often feels overwhelmed by the barrage of

Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), the Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, represents the epitome of overcoming tragedy and making it meaningful. A Holocaust survivor imprisoned in the infamous concentration camp Auschwitz, Frankl lost nearly all of his family save one sister to genocide, including his unborn child. How do you make sense of that or find meaning in the loss? How do you keep going when all you knew, loved, and believed in is gone, and living in the world feels like a

Children feel anxious just like adults do, though many adults don’t recognize it as such or know how to help their children manage it. It is normal for children to feel fear or worry about some things. They feel anxious in the dark, around strangers, or maybe when they are away from their caregivers for a while. As they grow and mature, many of these fears will subside, but they can become more severe and need more attention from