Something is off. Happiness and peace are eluding you. Perhaps your relationships continue to self destruct or you simply feel stuck. Most of us can relate to the experience of being off track. It could be an...
Category - Emotional Health
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Mindfulness: Key Benefits for Emotional & Relationship Health
Lately, many have been talking about the power of mindfulness practices. It’s more than a tool to focus attention and reduce stress, as helpful as those outcomes are. Mindfulness – defined as presence...
Linda Graham, MFT
#TheToolbox Best of Emotional and Relationship Health 2016
Another year is soon to be in the rear view mirror and I’m here to celebrate the “best of” in LoveAndLifeToolbox.com in 2016. The following are the three most popular emotional and relationship health...
Learning to Cope, Living with Hope….Life with BPD
This is a follow up to Borderline Personality Disorder: A Survivor’s Story, written by Amy Allison for LoveAndLifeToolbox.com in 2009. Amy shares how things been since that time; challenges, triumphs and her ongoing...
Is Your Inner Child Driving the Bus?
In some photos of myself as a young child I looked sad. As I stare into my own eyes in some of the pictures from back then I see melancholy and pensiveness. Distance. Ambivalence. A little girl inside her own head...
I Tried to Prove Myself to the World
Indhira Rojas is the founder of Anxy, a new magazine that de-stigmatizes emotional struggles and normalizes the fears we all have. She shares the story behind starting Anxy, when she realized her feelings of...
Loneliness Impacts Emotional, Relational and Physical Health
Loneliness is practically an epidemic and legitimate consequences are associated. Everyone feels lonely at one time or another but if it’s an ongoing theme it’s important understand the core issues around...
Family of Origin Work: Steps to Heal
In Family of Origin Work: How to Untangle and Tend to Your Obstacles, I looked at how to understand your history and how it’s impacted you. There are many ways people cope with challenging environments and...
Family of Origin Work: How to Untangle and Tend to Your Obstacles
In Family of Origin Work: Is it Time to Start Digging?, I looked at possible reasons for looking more closely at what might be an unhealthy root system underneath you. Sometimes our earlier experiences create...
One Simple Prescription for Happiness
It’s not actually realistic to boil down the elements of happiness into one element but some researchers believe that if you could, gratitude would be it. Gratitude might even be the path to a more satisfied life...
