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Keeping Silent About Your Feelings May Predispose You to Irritable Bowel Syndrome - 04/24/2010
Irritable Bowel syndrome is linked to self-harming ways of dealing with emotional abuse in women- such as self-silencing and self-blame. Dr. Jeanette Raymond suggests 5 ways you can learn to communicate your thoughts and feelings without risking rejection, loss or abuse, and lessen your IBS episodes.
Twelve Relationship Stress Factors That Can Bring On Dermatitis - 03/30/2010
Dermatitis or eczema is brought on by long term stress in insecure relationships, and a need to feel successful and in control without having to feel negative emotions. Nancy had all the 12 signs of vulnerability to stress that make her a candidate for dermatitis, including anxiety, impatience, disappointment with people and a strong desire to go it alone without feeling negative emotions. Read her story and find out what you can do to alleviate your chances of getting eczema.What's Acid Reflux and Swollen Ankles Telling You About Your Career Path? - 01/31/2010
Holding onto anger leads to sickness. Ever had the feeling that your success means letting someone else off the hook? Have you had the sense that you have to suffer so that those that did you wrong feel guilty and repent? It can make you sick and sabotage your life's happiness. Find out how to be successful without pardoning your wrong doers!
Is Your Chronic Fatigue Linked to Stress and Painful Emotions? - 01/31/2010
Stress, memory problems and Chronic Fatigue are linked to difficulty acknowledging and talking about painful and truamatic experiences. Learn how Patsy found her way back from the brink by facing her feelings and developing her sense of autonomy.
Ease Low Back Pain With Forgiveness - Make It Worse By Holding Onto Anger - 01/31/2010
Holding onto anger makes you tense, making back pain more intense and last for longer periods. The stress of anger and pain add to the suffering.Forgiveness but not pardon works in the brain by reducing stress, letting go the anger and accelerating the recovery from chronic low back pain. Read Garret's story of a life time of pain and how the two tips in this article can improve the quality of his life.
Stress, and Difficulty Accepting Help Can Make Your Hair Fall Out! - 01/31/2010
Shock, stress and relationship trauma reduces immunity and can lead to hair loss on the head known as alopecia. Nia didn't allow herself support and nurturing from others, making her more vulnerable when she was suffering from a major life crisis. Her relationship breakup led to hair loss that was embarrassing and alarming. Learn how Nia inoculated herself against future stresses and built a strong, resilient foundation for future relationships, so that her hair didn't fall out again.
What Emotions Does Your Migraine Express? - 01/30/2010
Migraines, neediness and self-discovery. Nothing cured Bonnie's life long migraines until she discovered how they helped her get care from loved ones without feeling guilty or ashamed. Read how Bonnie got rid of her migraines, her shame and fear of neediness by allowing herself the right to express her feelings in a healthy way.
Do Your Family Members Make Your Stomach Ache? - 02/02/2009
Anger management to prevent getting sick. Stomach cramps at night kept Faith awake. Her pent up anger and resentment against the way her family treated her got stuffed in her gut, giving her pain and keeping her awake. Stress, anxiety and resentment bloated her. Psychotherapy let it out. Now she sleeps well and has learned to protect herself better.
Are You Allergic to Standing Up For Yourself? - 11/28/2008
Anger management to deal with criticism. Scared of being assertive? The night before Sam was to meet his successful friend, his head throbbed with pain. A migraine was coming on. His left eyelid went into a uncontrollable spasm. He was nauseous, and dizzy. Sam was overwhelmed with anticipatory anxiety that Jim would criticize him.
Is Anger Showing Up in Your Skin Breakouts? - 11/28/2008
Anger management for health and satisfying relationships. What does your skin breakout mean? Maggie broke out in huge red, raw, itchy welts, all over her face, neck and chest, just as it was time to go into work. She was off the hook. There was no way she could go into work looking like this. She certainly couldn't work on clients in this condition. But what would it be like when she faced her colleagues the next day?