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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: 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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You Can Have Excellent Listening Skills!

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, encouragement, marriage, nagging, newsletter, parenting, stress, teens, tweens
Any psychotherapist will tell you that one of the biggest problems they see among their clients is poor listening skills. People get into trouble in their relationships [...]
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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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Relationship Checkup

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage, newsletter, stress
Most adults engage in long-term relationships, including marriage and other committed partnerships. Nearly everyone experiences difficulties in their marriage or committed [...]
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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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Encouraging Words

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, encouragement, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens, Uncategorised
There has been a movement in parenting in the past number of years that is generally referred to as the “self esteem movement”.  The basics of this movement focus on raising a [...]
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A Few Of My Favourite Books

Andrea Ramsay Speers
announcements, anxiety, bullying, chores, communication, couples, depression, encouragement, entitlement, friendship, happy families, marriage, mental health, nagging, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
Looking for something to keep you busy over the next few weeks? Books can be a great way to get information, get inspiration and new ideas, and to keep momentum going between [...]
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Staying Mentally Healthy In Times Of Crisis

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, happy families, mental health, parenting, stress, teens, tweens
These certainly are unprecedented times we live in. With the world on high alert and everything we take for granted in our daily lives, put on hold, now more than ever we need [...]
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