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Happiness At Home: Caring For The Caregiver

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, couples, depression, happy families, health, marriage, mental health, newsletter, stress
Few people are prepared for the responsibilities and tasks involved in caring for loved ones who are ill, elderly, or disabled. The success of the relationship between you and [...]
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Happiness At Home: Moving beyond Grief and Loss

Andrea Ramsay Speers
depression, mental health, newsletter, stress
In my work as a mental health professional, I have seen many clients dealing with losses of all kinds—loss of loved ones through death and divorce, for instance. These [...]
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Happiness At Home: Suicide Warning Signs and Treatment

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, depression, mental health, newsletter, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
It is reported that suicide, the act of deliberately ending one’s own life, is a cause of death for about 4,500 people each year in Canada. Since many suicides are not [...]
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Happiness At Home: How To Be Less of a Perfectionist and Enjoy Life More

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, mental health, newsletter, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress
This is the second of a series of two newsletters that explore the dynamics of perfectionism. In my last newsletter, you learned what perfectionism is and why people develop [...]
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Happiness At Home: Managing Perfectionism

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, mental health, newsletter, self esteem, stress
This is the first of two articles that address perfectionism. In this article, we will explore what perfectionism is and why it is destructive. In the next one, we will take a [...]
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Happiness At Home: How To Be More Self-Confident

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, mental health, newsletter, self esteem
Signs of Self-Confidence Let’s explore the meaning of self-confidence by taking a quiz. Read the list of statements below and check which ones, in your opinion, are signs of [...]
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Happiness At Home: How To Manage Conflict At Work

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, mental health, newsletter, stress
Kinds of Workplace Conflicts Let’s start by identifying where conflicts happen. Think about the kinds of conflicts that happen around your workplace. Disagreements over turf [...]
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Happiness At Home: How To Stop Procrastinating

Andrea Ramsay Speers
mental health, newsletter, stress
This is the second of a series of two newsletters that explore the dynamics of procrastination. In my last newsletter, you learned what procrastination is and why people do [...]
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Happiness At Home Newsletter: What Makes Us Procrastinate?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
depression, encouragement, mental health, nagging, newsletter, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
All of us procrastinate on occasion. For some people, it’s a chronic problem; for others, it’s only a problem in certain life areas. Procrastination is always frustrating [...]
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Happiness At Home: Managing Difficult Life Transitions

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, happy families, mental health, newsletter, stress
Life is a process of beginnings and endings. In both life and nature, there are times when things move slowly and don’t seem to change very much. Then, suddenly, things change [...]
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