If you are having a panic attack, you experience a sudden and intense surge of fear and discomfort. Your body is flooded with adrenaline. Your heart races, you feel weak or dizzy, and you may feel tingling or numbness in your fingers or hands. You feel sweaty, you have chills, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and a sense of loss of control. This is accompanied by the fear of …
Four Tips for Making and Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
The beginning of the New Year is a time when many people make resolutions. Things like losing weight, going to the gym, and stopping smoking are common on the list. The gyms seem to always get very crowded in January, and by the spring the crowds have usually thinned. If you want to make resolutions for the New Year, and want to make them stick, there are some things you can do …
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How Men Can Break Out of the “Boy Code” In Relationships
As I wrote in my last post, the "boy code" is a set of unwritten expectations about what it means to be a boy and a man in our society. It teaches boys to not be sissies, to be tough, to be aggressive, and to value achievement above all else. It is enforced with shame and humiliation for those who don't adhere to it. One of the many costs of adhering to it is a loss of the …
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