Alex is a warm, thoughtful Therapist with a decade of experience helping people in crisis or going through
painful life events.
Separation and divorce are two of the most emotionally draining, difficult, and
painful life events someone can go through, and many married people will experience these stressors in their lifetime.
Studies have shown that individuals who experience positive emotions such as love, compassion, and gratitude, in addition to the natural negative emotions experienced during and after a crisis or
painful life event, are less like to suffer from depression and more likely to develop and achieve future goals and better psychological functioning.
«After a death in the family, divorce, or some other
painful life event, every day is an opportunity for setting a new tone,» she says.
Not exact matches
Le Pen later called it one of the most
painful events in her
life and railed against the media that, according to her, had little regard to a family's privacy.
I just don't see how it's any of the damned business of the people on this forum to demand responses to what you know are complex, deeply emotional,
painful events lived out in the intimate
lives of others.
Is God responsible for the
painful and tragic
events of
life?
In all such
events, whether pleasant or
painful, one may relate to God at work, and if one does, one can be said to «know God» — who to know is eternal
life.
Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal
events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their
lives; death preceded by long,
painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of
events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.
We help sort through all types of crises from
painful, everyday struggles to traumatic,
life - changing
events — all of which can paralyze families from moving forward and can be the cause of a great divide amongst family members.
Sometimes, the act of giving birth can be a
painful reminder of traumatic
events that have occurred earlier in their
lives leaving them feeling powerless and victimized.
A new mom has just gone through a huge
life changing
event (and a very physically
painful one too)!
Commenting on the study Professor Jörg Fachner, Professor of Music, Health and the Brain, at Anglia Ruskin University, who was not part of the research team, said: «This study confirms that music therapists can work with authentic experiences when using music representing the sorrowful and
painful content of sad
life events such as the death of a spouse or child.
Past experiences can
live on in the body and may be experienced as flashbacks, memories, or repetitive thoughts about the
painful event.
While
painful, it's not an especially traumatic
event, as it would be later in
life.
People recount
painful episodes in their
lives or
life changing
events with the audience.
People shared
painful episodes in their
lives or
life changing
events with me.
Rather than shy away from the issues at hand, these artists wholeheartedly embraced the weaknesses and
painful events of their own
lives and the New York community as a whole.
As one who has devoted his
life to polar bears, however, what makes it most
painful for me to watch is that I know this kind of
event is happening at increasing rates out there.
Everyone deserves the opportunity to apply the knowledge and emotional intelligence gleaned from a challenging or difficult or
painful past experience to the
events in his / her
life today.
This Emerson quote resonates with me because although people have endured very
painful events in their
lives and may face difficult days ahead, the strength of the human spirit never ceases to amaze me with its resiliency.
«Has your
life been changed by a
painful event?
«For over 20 years I have been helping men, women and couples when their
lives have become
painful, deadened, upsetting, or when unexpected
events disrupted their
lives.
For one thing, the
painful and often traumatic relational fallout due to an addiction is compounded by the greater likelihood of divorce, which is itself ranked as the second most stressful
life event anyone can experience.
EMDR therapy used in a compassionate and skillful way can facilitate moving through such
painful events and integrating them into the fabric of our
lives bringing more inner peace and wholeness.