5 Ways to Soothe Anxious Dogs
Pets can become stressed for several different reasons. From new roommates to fireworks to long travel hours, dogs react to changes in their environment similar to how we do.
Many types of canine anxiety problems exist. Separation anxiety can occur when a dog is left alone for long periods of time. When dogs become fearful of loud noises, like thunderstorms, they are experiencing noise anxiety. Motion sickness and travel anxiety are possible for dogs, too, and you may think twice before keeping your dog in a crate as their frustration can lead to confinement anxiety.
Because dogs are sensitive to their physical and emotional settings, they may engage in repetitive or displacement behavior during times of stress. Agitated dogs may stop barking, chew on furniture and shoes, eat their own poop, or be aggressive toward others.
When these behaviors happen, don't misjudge the situation and punish your dog. Punishment will not address the root cause of the problem. In fact, pain will only increase their levels of stress leading to more unwanted behavior.
Fortunately, with the right plan of action, you can help your pet overcome anxiety. Every dog responds differently to certain methods. Therefore, if your pet doesn't respond to one technique, consider trying another. Here are five possible solutions for anxiety in dogs:
1. Use Medication
First, always consult a veterinarian before administering medication. Giving your dog Benadryl is one popular option for relief. It's a light, over-the-counter antihistamine with sedative properties. Your pet can take the medicine in different ways. You can put the tablet in small pieces of food, or the liquid gel capsules can be mixed into a treat.
2. Choose a Healthy Diet
As they say, you are what you eat, and a healthy diet leads to healthy behavior. Hyperactive dogs need a high protein, low carbohydrate diet. Therefore, it's in your best interest to monitor what you feed your pets (or what they randomly decide to eat). Discuss the best dietary options with your vet.
3. Exercise
Physical exercise is a great way to soothe your dog's anxiety. Schedule a daily routine for your dog to be active. If it's too cold for outdoor fun, experiment with indoor exercises and stretches. Also, make it enjoyable. Play games to associate positive emotions with typically stressful activities like car rides.
4. Give a Massage
Who said massages were just for people? Massaging is a great calming technique for an anxious dog. Not only does it heal the body, but also the mind. Connect with a certified canine massage therapist in your area. They can teach you multiple ways to relax your pet through touch.
5. Create a Predictable Environment
Dogs can sometimes get flustered, especially if their daily routine changes. Reduce stress by creating a predictable environment with fixed activities. It's important to set expectations for your dog. In return, both owner and pet will be happy.
Dogs are man's best friends; they share many of our emotions and can experience anxiety just like us. It is normal for a dog to become nervous when life changes occur. So instead of punishing innocent behavior, seek out help to relieve their stress. In the end, everyone will be grateful.
Image courtesy of Gualberto107 at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
from Healthy Living Blog on The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shayla-r-price/5-ways-to-soothe-anxious-dogs_b_6240346.html?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living&ir=Healthy+Living
Personal Growth Doesn't Tickle: 10 Tips to Make It Easier
If you're going to make your life brilliant, you're going to have to grow and change, and that means facing opposition -- sometimes fierce opposition. But don't let that stop you or derail you. If anything, let it sharpen your vision and fuel your resolve.
A few examples of personal growth: Changing jobs -- or careers. Pursuing a promotion. Going back to school. Starting a business. Writing your memoirs (if you don't write them, who will?). Taking up a challenging hobby. Doing volunteer work that takes you out of your comfort zone. Being the first in your family to do any of these things.
10 Tips to Smooth Your Path
Personal growth takes constant courage. Trusting that the results are worth it, even when you can't yet see them, makes present difficulties that much easier to endure and overcome, especially in the face of fierce opposition.
from Healthy Living Blog on The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-delapa/10-tips-to-make-personal-growth-easier_b_6188756.html?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living&ir=Healthy+Living
A few examples of personal growth: Changing jobs -- or careers. Pursuing a promotion. Going back to school. Starting a business. Writing your memoirs (if you don't write them, who will?). Taking up a challenging hobby. Doing volunteer work that takes you out of your comfort zone. Being the first in your family to do any of these things.
10 Tips to Smooth Your Path
- Embrace the difficulties. My friend and former boss Shawn used to say, "If it were easy, everyone would do it." Sometimes what holds us back is not others' opposition, but our own.
- Remind yourself, "This is just a stage." As an example, when I moved from Michigan to southern California to start graduate school, I could not have been more in love. What's not to love about year-round great weather, a campus that overlooks the ocean, and fish tacos?
Without knowing it, I was in Stage One(the honeymoon phase) of Oberg's Stages of Assimilation. Here's a tip I learned the hard way: The honeymoon doesn't last -- but fortunately, neither does the crisis stage. Best not to take either one too terribly seriously.
- Get selective about whom you share your news with. Some folks have it in them to share your hopes and fears, and some just don't. More precisely, some encounters will leave you nourished, and others will leave you chronically depleted -- or annoyed. Accept it, even if you don't like it, and keep going. Which leads us to our next point:
- Take nothing personally. When you change, the people around you have to shift--mentally, emotionally, or in some other way. This isn't always fun. Sometimes it's not even possible. After all, other people have their own agendas, their own timetable, and their own limitations. Allowing for these differences, without trying to change or refute them, makes life easier for everyone. For more information on this topic, check out Bruce Van Horn's post, "Do Not Take Anything Personally."
- Lovingly hold your ground. For example, when you're asked some version of, "What if your plan doesn't work?" you can explain, if you would like. But if it's just too much -- or you suspect the other party is seeking not clarity but consternation -- you can simply smile and say warmly, "Let me worry about that." Repeat as necessary. In reality, though, you're not worrying (or, with any luck, you're not consumed by worry). You're doing what needs to be done and letting the rest go.
- Surround yourself with positivity. Which isn't to say put blinders on. Only that when you're taking noble risks and moving forward, you need and deserve all the allies you can get: positive thoughts, positive words, positive music, positive people; that is, those who can bring out your best and challenge you when necessary.
- Celebrate your new direction, even when you don't have it all figured out. As my friend Rick said when we were both starting grad school, "I've never been more clueless about where I'm going to be two years from now, or more excited about where I'm headed." Why not tape that to your wall?
- Talk to people who are further down the path. For example, if you're starting a business, seek out and meet with those who took a similar risk and are now thriving. The world is filled with courageous people who are willing to share their stories.
- Be willing to let some relationships drift. This is easier said than done, and I am not advocating for divorce. But as you grow and change, some relationships are naturally going to diminish or disappear, while others grow stronger. New relationships will be formed on your new and higher plateau. I have never met anyone who allowed this process to unfold and later regretted it.
- Trust that growth and change benefit everyone -- including the naysayers. I have seen this with my (graduate) students and in my own family. You've probably seen it in your own life. The first one in the family to go to college, start a business, or otherwise break new ground ends up inspiring other family members, up and down the generations.
Personal growth takes constant courage. Trusting that the results are worth it, even when you can't yet see them, makes present difficulties that much easier to endure and overcome, especially in the face of fierce opposition.
from Healthy Living Blog on The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-delapa/10-tips-to-make-personal-growth-easier_b_6188756.html?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living&ir=Healthy+Living
5 Ways to Soothe Anxious Dogs
Pets can become stressed for several different reasons. From new roommates to fireworks to long travel hours, dogs react to changes in their environment similar to how we do.
Many types of canine anxiety problems exist. Separation anxiety can occur when a dog is left alone for long periods of time. When dogs become fearful of loud noises, like thunderstorms, they are experiencing noise anxiety. Motion sickness and travel anxiety are possible for dogs, too, and you may think twice before keeping your dog in a crate as their frustration can lead to confinement anxiety.
Because dogs are sensitive to their physical and emotional settings, they may engage in repetitive or displacement behavior during times of stress. Agitated dogs may stop barking, chew on furniture and shoes, eat their own poop, or be aggressive toward others.
When these behaviors happen, don't misjudge the situation and punish your dog. Punishment will not address the root cause of the problem. In fact, pain will only increase their levels of stress leading to more unwanted behavior.
Fortunately, with the right plan of action, you can help your pet overcome anxiety. Every dog responds differently to certain methods. Therefore, if your pet doesn't respond to one technique, consider trying another. Here are five possible solutions for anxiety in dogs:
1. Use Medication
First, always consult a veterinarian before administering medication. Giving your dog Benadryl is one popular option for relief. It's a light, over-the-counter antihistamine with sedative properties. Your pet can take the medicine in different ways. You can put the tablet in small pieces of food, or the liquid gel capsules can be mixed into a treat.
2. Choose a Healthy Diet
As they say, you are what you eat, and a healthy diet leads to healthy behavior. Hyperactive dogs need a high protein, low carbohydrate diet. Therefore, it's in your best interest to monitor what you feed your pets (or what they randomly decide to eat). Discuss the best dietary options with your vet.
3. Exercise
Physical exercise is a great way to soothe your dog's anxiety. Schedule a daily routine for your dog to be active. If it's too cold for outdoor fun, experiment with indoor exercises and stretches. Also, make it enjoyable. Play games to associate positive emotions with typically stressful activities like car rides.
4. Give a Massage
Who said massages were just for people? Massaging is a great calming technique for an anxious dog. Not only does it heal the body, but also the mind. Connect with a certified canine massage therapist in your area. They can teach you multiple ways to relax your pet through touch.
5. Create a Predictable Environment
Dogs can sometimes get flustered, especially if their daily routine changes. Reduce stress by creating a predictable environment with fixed activities. It's important to set expectations for your dog. In return, both owner and pet will be happy.
Dogs are man's best friends; they share many of our emotions and can experience anxiety just like us. It is normal for a dog to become nervous when life changes occur. So, instead of punishing innocent behavior, seek out help to relieve their stress. In the end, everyone will be grateful.
Image courtesy of marcolm at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
from Healthy Living Blog on The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shayla-r-price/5-ways-to-soothe-anxious_b_6240346.html?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living&ir=Healthy+Living
Depression: It's Not Just in Your Head, It's Also in Your Genes
Depression: It's Not Just in Your Head, It's Also in Your Genes
Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D.
Ninety-seven healthy girls, ages 10 to 14, had saliva DNA samples taken. About half of them had moms with histories of depression, and about half had moms who did not. None of the girls had histories of depression. (1)
The girls whose moms had suffered depression had significant reductions in the length of their telomeres. We all want to understand telomeres, the caps at the ends of our DNA strands, because the longer they are the longer we tend to live -- and live freer of age related illnesses like heart disease, stroke, dementia, diabetes and osteoporosis. The girls whose moms didn't have histories of depression, the control group of the study, did not show the same changes in their DNA as a result of reductions in the length of their telomeres.
The researchers took the study another step: they compared both groups of girls, the former or "high-risk" group and the control or "low-risk" group, by measuring their response to stressful mental tasks. The children of moms with depression had significantly higher levels of cortisol, our stress hormone, released during these tasks than those in the control group; both had normal levels of cortisol before the stressful tasks.
These findings are what scientists call associations, namely highly significant events found together that are unlikely to co-occur randomly. In themselves, they don't prove one caused the other, but they suggest that something important, not accidental, is going on. This study demonstrated shorter telomeres in daughters of moms who had depression and greater hormonal reactivity to stress in these girls.
When the girls were followed until age 18, 60 percent of those in the high-risk group developed depression, a condition that was not evident when they were first studied. The telomere was a biomarker, an individual hallmark that a person is at higher risk for an illness -- in this case for depression. We already knew that shortened telomeres were a risk factor for chronic, physical diseases but now the evidence is emerging for its likely role in depression.
Should you go out and get your saliva tested? There are labs happy to provide the test. But your decision should depend on whether you have reason to suspect being at risk, like a family history of maternal depression -- which may be all you actually need to know. But information is only valuable if we can do something about it.
And we can. We have a growing set of tools to help control our stress responses: these include yoga, yogic breathing, meditation, cognitive training techniques, exercise, diet, and working to have supportive, stable relationships, and home and work environments. People at greater risk for stress-related diseases (mind you, we all are at risk it's just a matter of degree) would be wise to learn and master these techniques early in life, and use them to live a healthier and longer life.
We also need to better detect and treat mothers who suffer from depression. We have strong evidence that untreated depression in moms impairs their attachment to their children and is associated with these children developing behavioral and emotional problems in childhood. If the moms are properly treated not only do they do better, so do their kids (2).
As we try to undo a long history of stigma about mental disorders and demonstrate they are illnesses that call for identification, early intervention, effective treatment, and prevention whenever possible, this telomere study is more evidence that depression is "...not just in our heads."
Understanding our genetic predispositions, developing reliable biomarkers, managing our environment and stresses, protecting ourselves from our harmful hormones, and having access to effective treatments are our best prescriptions for healthier and longer lives.
References:
(1) Telomere length and cortisol reactivity in children of depressed mothers, Gotlib, IH, LeMoult, J, et al, Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication, 30 September 2014; doi:10.1038/mp.2014.119
(2) Weissman, M, et al, Remissions in Maternal Depression and Child Psychopathology A STARD CHILD Report , JAMA, March 22/29, 2006
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Dr. Sederer's book for families who have a member with a mental illness is The Family Guide to Mental Health Care (Foreword by Glenn Close).
Dr. Sederer is a psychiatrist and public health physician. The views expressed here are entirely his own. He takes no support from any pharmaceutical or device company.
www.askdrlloyd.com -- Follow Lloyd I. Sederer, MD on Twitter: http://ift.tt/1fU1i60
from Healthy Living Blog on The Huffington Post http://ift.tt/1FBroGw
Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D.
Ninety-seven healthy girls, ages 10 to 14, had saliva DNA samples taken. About half of them had moms with histories of depression, and about half had moms who did not. None of the girls had histories of depression. (1)
The girls whose moms had suffered depression had significant reductions in the length of their telomeres. We all want to understand telomeres, the caps at the ends of our DNA strands, because the longer they are the longer we tend to live -- and live freer of age related illnesses like heart disease, stroke, dementia, diabetes and osteoporosis. The girls whose moms didn't have histories of depression, the control group of the study, did not show the same changes in their DNA as a result of reductions in the length of their telomeres.
The researchers took the study another step: they compared both groups of girls, the former or "high-risk" group and the control or "low-risk" group, by measuring their response to stressful mental tasks. The children of moms with depression had significantly higher levels of cortisol, our stress hormone, released during these tasks than those in the control group; both had normal levels of cortisol before the stressful tasks.
These findings are what scientists call associations, namely highly significant events found together that are unlikely to co-occur randomly. In themselves, they don't prove one caused the other, but they suggest that something important, not accidental, is going on. This study demonstrated shorter telomeres in daughters of moms who had depression and greater hormonal reactivity to stress in these girls.
When the girls were followed until age 18, 60 percent of those in the high-risk group developed depression, a condition that was not evident when they were first studied. The telomere was a biomarker, an individual hallmark that a person is at higher risk for an illness -- in this case for depression. We already knew that shortened telomeres were a risk factor for chronic, physical diseases but now the evidence is emerging for its likely role in depression.
Should you go out and get your saliva tested? There are labs happy to provide the test. But your decision should depend on whether you have reason to suspect being at risk, like a family history of maternal depression -- which may be all you actually need to know. But information is only valuable if we can do something about it.
And we can. We have a growing set of tools to help control our stress responses: these include yoga, yogic breathing, meditation, cognitive training techniques, exercise, diet, and working to have supportive, stable relationships, and home and work environments. People at greater risk for stress-related diseases (mind you, we all are at risk it's just a matter of degree) would be wise to learn and master these techniques early in life, and use them to live a healthier and longer life.
We also need to better detect and treat mothers who suffer from depression. We have strong evidence that untreated depression in moms impairs their attachment to their children and is associated with these children developing behavioral and emotional problems in childhood. If the moms are properly treated not only do they do better, so do their kids (2).
As we try to undo a long history of stigma about mental disorders and demonstrate they are illnesses that call for identification, early intervention, effective treatment, and prevention whenever possible, this telomere study is more evidence that depression is "...not just in our heads."
Understanding our genetic predispositions, developing reliable biomarkers, managing our environment and stresses, protecting ourselves from our harmful hormones, and having access to effective treatments are our best prescriptions for healthier and longer lives.
References:
(1) Telomere length and cortisol reactivity in children of depressed mothers, Gotlib, IH, LeMoult, J, et al, Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication, 30 September 2014; doi:10.1038/mp.2014.119
(2) Weissman, M, et al, Remissions in Maternal Depression and Child Psychopathology A STARD CHILD Report , JAMA, March 22/29, 2006
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Dr. Sederer's book for families who have a member with a mental illness is The Family Guide to Mental Health Care (Foreword by Glenn Close).
Dr. Sederer is a psychiatrist and public health physician. The views expressed here are entirely his own. He takes no support from any pharmaceutical or device company.
www.askdrlloyd.com -- Follow Lloyd I. Sederer, MD on Twitter: http://ift.tt/1fU1i60
from Healthy Living Blog on The Huffington Post http://ift.tt/1FBroGw
Thanksgiving: It's Not Just About the Food!
Although Thanksgiving is supposed to be a happy day filled with delicious food and loved ones, it has over the years garnered a reputation of the most anxiety-provoking holiday. For a person in the midst of a struggle with an eating disorder, it is a pure living hell. People joke about loosening belts after the big meal and going on diets before the big day, but for victims of the disease, these jokes can be life-threatening.
If food is your largest cause of anxiety, having an entire day focused entirely upon that subject feels like entering a bad dream. Some scenarios that I remember -- people constantly prodding me to try their appetizers and dishes in order to get me to eat, family members that I have not seen for awhile commenting on my change in weight, pushing food around on my plate or hiding it in napkins, giving in to the peer pressure of a holiday binge and then later purging as a result of the discomfort, and many more. The best Thanksgiving memory I had in the past decade was, believe it or not, in an eating disorder treatment center. At this treatment center, everything we ate was portioned out so we had no choice in the matter, and this loss of choice actually relieved the stress because we could then just devote our entire brainpower on each other's good company and conversation. Today, I am determined to have my first good Thanksgiving in 10 years -- out of a treatment center and surrounded by family and friends using the tips that I have created.
1) Refocus the holiday upon its original meaning -- giving thanks. Make a list of the things in your life that you are thankful for, and when anxiety clouds your mind, pull out the list.
2) Treat the meal as any other meal. Put a reasonable amount of food on your plate, and when you are full, stop eating. Do not feel obligated to make yourself sick to your stomach just because that is what our society has characterized it to be.
3) Redirect the conversation to things other than body image. When people have not seen each other for awhile, it is a common conversation starter to talk about appearances, such as "You look great! Did you lose some weight?" These conversations are very triggering during recovery. When you hear this, try to stop and refocus the conversation with a simple, "Thank you, I have been focusing on my health." Then redirect the conversation to something else, such as ,"How has your new job been?"
4) The aftermath -- don't try and fix things the next day. Even if the day did not go as planned, do not punish yourself the next day by trying to go on a Thanksgiving day diet or begin a strenuous workout plan. Every day is a fresh start.
I hope this helps. Happy Thanksgiving!
from Healthy Living Blog on The Huffington Post http://ift.tt/1vsLQYW
If food is your largest cause of anxiety, having an entire day focused entirely upon that subject feels like entering a bad dream. Some scenarios that I remember -- people constantly prodding me to try their appetizers and dishes in order to get me to eat, family members that I have not seen for awhile commenting on my change in weight, pushing food around on my plate or hiding it in napkins, giving in to the peer pressure of a holiday binge and then later purging as a result of the discomfort, and many more. The best Thanksgiving memory I had in the past decade was, believe it or not, in an eating disorder treatment center. At this treatment center, everything we ate was portioned out so we had no choice in the matter, and this loss of choice actually relieved the stress because we could then just devote our entire brainpower on each other's good company and conversation. Today, I am determined to have my first good Thanksgiving in 10 years -- out of a treatment center and surrounded by family and friends using the tips that I have created.
1) Refocus the holiday upon its original meaning -- giving thanks. Make a list of the things in your life that you are thankful for, and when anxiety clouds your mind, pull out the list.
2) Treat the meal as any other meal. Put a reasonable amount of food on your plate, and when you are full, stop eating. Do not feel obligated to make yourself sick to your stomach just because that is what our society has characterized it to be.
3) Redirect the conversation to things other than body image. When people have not seen each other for awhile, it is a common conversation starter to talk about appearances, such as "You look great! Did you lose some weight?" These conversations are very triggering during recovery. When you hear this, try to stop and refocus the conversation with a simple, "Thank you, I have been focusing on my health." Then redirect the conversation to something else, such as ,"How has your new job been?"
4) The aftermath -- don't try and fix things the next day. Even if the day did not go as planned, do not punish yourself the next day by trying to go on a Thanksgiving day diet or begin a strenuous workout plan. Every day is a fresh start.
I hope this helps. Happy Thanksgiving!
from Healthy Living Blog on The Huffington Post http://ift.tt/1vsLQYW
Personal Growth Doesn't Tickle: 10 Tips to Make It Easier
If you're going to make your life brilliant, you're going to have to grow and change, and that means facing opposition -- sometimes fierce opposition. But don't let that stop you or derail you. If anything, let it sharpen your vision and fuel your resolve.
A few examples of personal growth: Changing jobs -- or careers. Pursuing a promotion. Going back to school. Starting a business. Writing your memoirs (if you don't write them, who will?). Taking up a challenging hobby. Doing volunteer work that takes you out of your comfort zone. Being the first in your family to do any of these things.
10 Tips to Smooth Your Path
Personal growth takes constant courage. Trusting that the results are worth it, even when you can't yet see them, makes present difficulties that much easier to endure and overcome, especially in the face of fierce opposition.
from Healthy Living Blog on The Huffington Post http://ift.tt/1HKZLi7
A few examples of personal growth: Changing jobs -- or careers. Pursuing a promotion. Going back to school. Starting a business. Writing your memoirs (if you don't write them, who will?). Taking up a challenging hobby. Doing volunteer work that takes you out of your comfort zone. Being the first in your family to do any of these things.
10 Tips to Smooth Your Path
- Embrace the difficulties. My friend and former boss Shawn used to say, "If it were easy, everyone would do it." Sometimes what holds us back is not others' opposition, but our own.
- Remind yourself, "This is just a stage." As an example, when I moved from Michigan to southern California to start graduate school, I could not have been more in love. What's not to love about year-round great weather, a campus that overlooks the ocean, and fish tacos?
Without knowing it, I was in Stage One(the honeymoon phase) of Oberg's Stages of Assimilation. Here's a tip I learned the hard way: The honeymoon doesn't last -- but fortunately, neither does the crisis stage. Best not to take either one too terribly seriously.
- Get selective about whom you share your news with. Some folks have it in them to share your hopes and fears, and some just don't. More precisely, some encounters will leave you nourished, and others will leave you chronically depleted -- or annoyed. Accept it, even if you don't like it, and keep going. Which leads us to our next point:
- Take nothing personally. When you change, the people around you have to shift--mentally, emotionally, or in some other way. This isn't always fun. Sometimes it's not even possible. After all, other people have their own agendas, their own timetable, and their own limitations. Allowing for these differences, without trying to change or refute them, makes life easier for everyone. For more information on this topic, check out Bruce Van Horn's post, "Do Not Take Anything Personally."
- Lovingly hold your ground. For example, when you're asked some version of, "What if your plan doesn't work?" you can explain, if you would like. But if it's just too much -- or you suspect the other party is seeking not clarity but consternation -- you can simply smile and say warmly, "Let me worry about that." Repeat as necessary. In reality, though, you're not worrying (or, with any luck, you're not consumed by worry). You're doing what needs to be done and letting the rest go.
- Surround yourself with positivity. Which isn't to say put blinders on. Only that when you're taking noble risks and moving forward, you need and deserve all the allies you can get: positive thoughts, positive words, positive music, positive people; that is, those who can bring out your best and challenge you when necessary.
- Celebrate your new direction, even when you don't have it all figured out. As my friend Rick said when we were both starting grad school, "I've never been more clueless about where I'm going to be two years from now, or more excited about where I'm headed." Why not tape that to your wall?
- Talk to people who are further down the path. For example, if you're starting a business, seek out and meet with those who took a similar risk and are now thriving. The world is filled with courageous people who are willing to share their stories.
- Be willing to let some relationships drift. This is easier said than done, and I am not advocating for divorce. But as you grow and change, some relationships are naturally going to diminish or disappear, while others grow stronger. New relationships will be formed on your new and higher plateau. I have never met anyone who allowed this process to unfold and later regretted it.
- Trust that growth and change benefit everyone -- including the naysayers. I have seen this with my (graduate) students and in my own family. You've probably seen it in your own life. The first one in the family to go to college, start a business, or otherwise break new ground ends up inspiring other family members, up and down the generations.
Personal growth takes constant courage. Trusting that the results are worth it, even when you can't yet see them, makes present difficulties that much easier to endure and overcome, especially in the face of fierce opposition.
from Healthy Living Blog on The Huffington Post http://ift.tt/1HKZLi7
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