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Coping with Loss as We Age

Coping with Loss as We Age

By Santa Clarita Christian Counseling|2024-03-27T12:36:43+00:00January 18th, 2023|Aging and Geriatric Issues, Featured, Grief Counseling, Individual Counseling|

Coping with loss is a constant in life as we get older. There are both minor and significant losses. We can lose our hair, bone density, eyesight, hearing, best friend, and spouse, among other physical traits, abilities, and relationships. Grief, loneliness, and despair can result from these losses. When we are coping with loss, it’s possible that when we wake up in the morning, we experience an intense sadness that begins before our conscious mind even becomes aware. This sadness serves as a reminder that what happened wasn’t just a bad dream. Geriatric and aging-related issues While some adults may eagerly look forward to retirement, grandchildren, or simply a new stage of life as they enter their golden years, others may dread the negative effects of aging on their bodies and minds. If they do encounter physical difficulties that restrict their mobility, it might be challenging for some adults to make the transition to retirement, deal with new frailty or medical conditions, or find enjoyable, fulfilling activities. Some older adults may find it difficult to accept their mortality, especially when friends, peers, spouses, or partners pass away. As a result, they may experience isolation after several such deaths. Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, which affect one in ten Americans of retirement age, may make it difficult for older adults to take care of basic needs. Some older adults may experience discrimination based on one’s age known as ageism. This practice may result in forced retirement or cause well-meaning family members to disregard an older adult’s preferences or opinions. A United Nations Population Survey found that 43% of people over the age of 60 were concerned about personal violence, and 37% of adults over the age of 60 reported experiencing age discrimination in the previous year. Only 49% of [...]

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Help for Depression: How to Support a Loved One

Help for Depression: How to Support a Loved One

By Santa Clarita Christian Counseling|2023-01-20T15:59:03+00:00January 6th, 2023|Depression, Featured, Individual Counseling, Relationship Issues|

You can make a serious difference by supporting and encouraging your loved one as they find help for depression and journey toward recovery. How to provide help for depression Do you know that depression affects people from all cultures no matter what their age? It affects millions of people across the globe from all levels of society. It is a psychological illness that is serious, affecting not just the people that suffer from it, but also those who care for them, as well as everyone else around them like co-workers or anyone else they are regularly in contact with. Experiencing difficult emotions is common for those who love someone who is depressed. You may be experiencing helplessness, frustration, guilt, anger, fear, and even sadness. It is certainly not an easy task trying to help and support a family member or friend with depression and these feelings are perfectly normal. And if you neglect your health, and expend too much of yourself in your efforts to provide help, the task of caring can become overwhelming and relentless. So while making sure you pour from a full cup, the support and love you show to the person in your life with depression are critical. Receiving help from a trusted source to help navigate the symptoms of depression; work through negative thoughts; figure out how to raise their energy levels; how to find hope and hold onto it; and start to enjoy life again make a key difference to those who are feeling depressed and busy wading through it. Step 1: Learn all you can about depression. If you can start learning about depression early on in the support of your family member or friend, then all the better. Coming to an understanding of how to talk about depression to the person in [...]

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Anger Management Tips: How to Curb Your Anger and Stay Calm

Anger Management Tips: How to Curb Your Anger and Stay Calm

By Santa Clarita Christian Counseling|2022-11-21T13:05:57+00:00November 21st, 2022|Anger Issues, Featured, Individual Counseling|

Anger is a normal human emotion that can be either good or bad, depending (at least in part) on whether it gets out of control and leads you to act irrationally or aggressively. Uncontrolled anger can take a toll on your health and relationships, lead to problems at work, and have a destructive impact on the overall quality of your life. This article offers some practical anger management tips to help you overcome it. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. – Mark Twain Often there’s a more significant issue behind what triggers your wrath. Anger can be a mask for deeper feelings such as hurt, fear, shame, guilt, or insecurity. Anger management can help you uncover those hidden emotions and teach you how to express yourself in a healthy, appropriate way without being physically or verbally abusive. You may not be able to avoid the people or things that push your buttons and make your blood boil, but you always have a choice as to how you respond. The following are some anger management tips that can help empower you to take control of your anger before it takes control of you. Ten anger management tips to get you started Think before you speak. Once you say or do something, you cannot take it back. Stop and think before you react. Pretend your lips are glued shut. If possible, walk away from a triggering situation to buy yourself time to reflect on the issue at hand. Maybe go for a short walk around the block, or take a deep breath and slowly count to ten. For example, taking a timeout when a conversation starts to get heated can help you avoid [...]

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Overcoming Resentment in Relationships

Overcoming Resentment in Relationships

By Santa Clarita Christian Counseling|2024-03-27T12:43:33+00:00September 28th, 2022|Featured, Individual Counseling, Relationship Issues|

You are dating someone you love and enjoy a relationship characterized by love and respect. Implicitly or explicitly, you have expressed the desire to marry someday. But there is something (or even several things for that matter) that bugs you and fosters resentment in relationships. So much so that you wonder if you are seeing a red flag waving in the distance. You are married to a loving partner. You have been through many difficulties, but some issues are not going away, and in fact, they rear their nasty heads every time you disagree about something. It starts small, but the conflict grows and suddenly you are both overcome with rage and emotional outbursts that break down your precious relationship. You do not know how to approach those issues in a way that will resolve them. It may be that you do not know one another well enough yet and it is still early in your relationship, or you feel that the subjects are just too sensitive to confront and perhaps you fear the consequences of them being aired out between you. How to overcome resentment in relationships is a relevant question for many couples and seeks to find tools and techniques to equip you both. It is often quite helpful to speak to a trained counselor about how to best overcome challenges in a relationship. You do not have to wait for the level of resentment to build up and calcify before ironing out relationship creases. Prevention is usually a better option than a cure. How we can act in ways that build resentment in relationships Anger is a common emotion. It can make itself known in any relationship in a variety of ways despite not being directly addressed to the person who provoked it. As we know, anger [...]

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Common Signs of Anxiety: Can You Relate?

Common Signs of Anxiety: Can You Relate?

By Santa Clarita Christian Counseling|2024-03-27T12:41:38+00:00August 3rd, 2022|Anxiety, Featured, Individual Counseling|

Do you ever wonder whether the way you worry is normal? Do you question whether you are worrying or whether you might have signs of anxiety? Perhaps your worrying could lead to anxiety. The good news is that everyone worries. You worry about health, money, career, and family. Worry is most commonly a temporary response of fear to these thoughts. But when you find the worry lingers for a long time and you start feeling overwhelmed with fear, it could be one of the signs of anxiety. Common Signs of Anxiety to Watch For Anxiety is when the worry doesn’t stop, and it starts affecting your everyday life. Panic sets in and you struggle to control the thoughts and your body’s response to these thoughts. These signs of anxiety start to interfere with job performance, friendships, relationships, schoolwork, and your overall health. The following signs of anxiety are indicators of whether you are experiencing anxiety and how it could affect you. Nervousness, restlessness, and tension To worry makes you nervous, but to be consistently anxious creates muscle tension in your body. Your body is hardened, tensed, and restless. You are constantly fidgeting and uncomfortable. You struggle to relax even when you set the mood for a relaxing evening. You try to rest while on a holiday or a weekend break, but you struggle to let go of the tension in your body. What you don’t realize is that the body gets tenser and tenser while we have these anxious thoughts. When you become aware of your anxious thoughts, you find that your shoulders are pulled up close to your ears. You must intentionally lower your shoulders for your body to stop this tension. Before you know it, you realize that your body has tensed up again. Due to the tension [...]

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