Overcoming Everyday Anxiety
by Joan Wester Anderson and Eugenie G. Wheeler It’s a lump in your throat, a knot in your stomach, a runaway heartbeat, adrenaline overkill. It’s
by Joan Wester Anderson and Eugenie G. Wheeler It’s a lump in your throat, a knot in your stomach, a runaway heartbeat, adrenaline overkill. It’s
The Christian tradition has recommended three practices from earliest times—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. For most of my life, I tended to see these as designed for me, to strengthen my character and resolve, to rid myself of spiritual flabbiness, to build spiritual muscle.
By Tom McGrath Lent is an annual opportunity to check up on the state of your spiritual health. The three traditional pathways of Lent take
By Carol Luebering Memory writes on every page of the calendar—here a birthday, there a holiday, further on a wedding date. In the wake of
By Ralph P. Plumley People of all ages, professions, and socio-economic backgrounds may have thoughts of suicide or participate in some kind of self-harm. If
By Br. Silas Henderson, O.S.B There is a story related by Saint Jerome that when the Apostle John was an old man, his followers would
By Therese J. Borchard It’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, but for many of us, it’s also the most stressful
By Louisa Rogers “I have a secret to tell you,” my then 97-year-old father told me on the phone, in a conspiratorial whisper, “and you mustn’t
Once a person recovers from the immediate effects of trauma, there may be an invisible impression left behind in their nervous system. That’s the root of PTSD, which is a way in which the trauma comes back in unwelcome, disturbing ways. CareNote author, Geoffrey Tyrell, offers ways to help a loved one move forward when they are suffering from PTSD.
If you have a friend or a loved one who suffers from depression or its cousin, anxiety, you are not alone.
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