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Emotional Health

Your Kids Can Avoid Negative Thinking Traps

Dwelling on truth will help your child make wiser choices and discover better solutions to the challenges she faces.

Head Games

Guys, we can resolve disagreements a lot more quickly, and with better results, if we see our wives not as opponents to be outplayed, but as teammates. Let’s be men who can disagree, discuss — and then move on.

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When Teens Lose Hope

If your teens seem depressed or hopeless and you worry that their actions may lead to self-harm, here are some ideas for bringing hope into their situation.

Kids Who Worry

When you help your kids ask the right questions, you give them a tool to overcome worry and grow in empathy.

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6 Ways to Make Your Marriage Happy

Happiness is in short supply for too many couples. And the reason may be that they don’t work at it. Happiness, after all, is not something that happens; it’s something you make.

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Excellent Self-Care Requires Finding A Healthy Balance

The great commandment teaches that self-care is not selfish — it’s actually foundational to a healthy marriage.

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You Can’t Give To Others What You Don’t Already Have

The great commandment teaches that self-care is not selfish — it’s actually foundational to a healthy marriage.

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Kindergarten Readiness: Your Child’s Emotions

Here are some things you can do to prepare your child for kindergarten

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Anxiousness and Anxiety Disorders

We all worry to some extent from time to time. Some of us, though, find our lives disrupted by fear and anxiety.

Anxiety Disorders — Frequently Asked Questions

Article About: Emotional Health What causes anxiety disorders?Our understanding of the roots of anxiety disorders is very incomplete. Anxiety disorders constitute a class of mental health issues, and the underlying causes for each one may vary. It is not clear, for example, why a specific phobia might afflict one person but not another. It’s likely …

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Warning Signs of Mental Illness

How can you know whether a loved one might be suffering from mental illness?

Stress at Home

Dr. Archibald Hart answers how stress at home and parents’ attitudes affect their children.

Living Without Constant Guilt

Living Without Constant Guilt

This misunderstood emotion can provide us with life experiences that can help us change for the better.

The Origins of False Guilt

The Origins of False Guilt

I, like many other earnest people of faith, spent the first half of my church life trying to avoid displeasing my pastor instead of pleasing God.

Cure for Feeling Real Guilt

This prideful man just doesn’t want to come clean and admit he made a mistake. So he plays word games.

Healthy Guilt vs. False and Harmful Guilt

False guilt has nothing to do with what’s true and accurate, nor is it related to true repentance. Rather, it is usually the fear of disapproval in disguise.

Winning the War Against Anger

Winning the War Against Anger

Instead of simply managing our anger, we need to transform ourselves.

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The Upside and Downside of Anger

Is “righteous anger” ever justified? Know the difference between selfish and selfless anger.

Adjusting to Life With Chronic Illness

Chronic illness experts, professional grief counselors, and mental health specialists offer practical tips, helpful resources and general principles to help navigate life with chronic illness.

When Your Anger Gets the Best of You

Instead of ignoring our tendencies to show anger, honestly examine your priorities, repent of it, reject it and walk away from it.