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How To Stay On Track With Your Recovery And Still Be Social
Holding on to sobriety is difficult even at the best of times, and for many who are in recovery, it’s a challenge that becomes even worse in social settings. Events such as birthdays, weddings, and other social gatherings often include alcohol, making it very difficult for individuals in recovery to stay social and still maintain their sobriety. Fortunately, there are simple ways to participate in these social situations and stay on track. The key is to know your limitations, find support from a friend or sponsor, and have a plan beforehand. So here are some of the best tips from LNJ Life Coaching on how to be a social butterfly and stay sober.…
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10 Healing Scriptures For Emotional And Physical Health
Healing Scriptures These healing scriptures are powerful, and the Word Of God in Hebrews 4:12 KJV says that “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Praying the Word of God is powerful and quick and sharper, piercing our souls and spirit. When we pray the Word of God over our situation, we are, in essence, speaking God’s words over our situation, and our situation hears the word of God and obeys God’s Word –…
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Love And Affection: How It helps People To Bond Emotionally
Love And Affection Help Us To Bond Emotionally. To be affectionate, you also have to be intentional. Most couples lose the ‘spark,’ and the relationship becomes cold and dull. Familiarity sets in. Women are auditory, and men are visual. Words and actions are important when it comes to showing affection. Affection helps people in all types of relationships bond. Our relationship with our parents growing up, especially between a father and a child, is supposed to be affectionate. A father’s affection toward a child greatly and positively impacts the child’s psychological development. Other Types Of Affectionate Relationships Our relationship with God Parent-child relationship Romantic relationship Friendships Interpersonal relationships What Is…
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The Brain Chemicals That Make You Happy
God has blessed us with chemicals in our body that aids in our physiology. Throughout the body, various types of hormones and chemicals contribute to our body’s functions and processes. Examples include Estrogen found in the female reproductive system, Cortisol helps to control stress, and Melatonin helps with our sleep cycle. Knowing the brain chemicals and hormones responsible for healthy mental and emotional well-being is imperative regarding our psychological health. How Our Upbringing Induces Certain Chemicals And Hormones It all starts in childhood and how our upbringing contributes to our psychological health. The father-child relationship is significant, and the more positive the relationship, the healthy a child will grow up and become. During…
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10 Ways To Nourish Your Soul (Mind)
We are a soul in a body, and our soul was created to give Love and to receive Love, and because we are created in the image of God, we know that God is Love. God created us so we can thrive in an atmosphere of Love and affection; the absence of affection may be detrimental to a person’s soul. For instance, a person brought up in a toxic environment may grow up to have mental health and emotional issues such as anxiety, depression, insecurity, and anger. This reason is why God gave us guidance on how to raise children. Ephesians 6:4 AMP says – Fathers, do not provoke your children…
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How Brain Development Affects Emotional Development
What makes us who we are? It is our self-esteem, personality, and self-worth. Of course, we may characterize all that as who John or Mary Is. But with that, we also are born with innate personality traits, such as a person who is introverted or extroverted. How about a person who has anxiety or insecurity or a person who has depression? Are those innate personalities, or does our environment have something to do with it? Hopefully, this blog post will shed light on how we develop emotionally. The Human Brain And Its Compartments (What makes Us) Which Part Of The Brain Houses Our Self-esteem, Emotions, And Motivations How Do Traumatic Experiences…
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How To Overcome Unhealthy Fear And Live With A Sound Mind
The Fight Or Flight Response Adrenaline and Cortisol are important hormones because they help the body protect itself from danger. These hormones are commonly known as ‘the fight or flight response’. They work like this; when you are faced with a frightening moment, your first response may be to fight or run away. These hormones help us to decide what to do and what happens is that our adrenaline shoots up and puts us in survival mode to protect us from danger. In this respect, fear can be a good emotion because it helps us to make a safe and decisive decision. But fear can become unhealthy when our Adrenaline…
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How To Have A Personal Relationship With God
The journey to Salvation begins with us believing and trusting in our Hearts that Jesus is Lord and also believing in the work He came to earth to do on the Cross for humanity. Salvation Through Jesus Christ The verses below tell us of our Salvation. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.…
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How To Build A Good Emotional Health
As an adult, where does your EMOTIONAL FULFILLMENT comes from – It should come from God!! As a child, that emotional fulfillment should come from your parents. In the way of parent-child bonding, during this bonding process, there is a hormone that the body releases for both parent and child called Oxytocin which helps in the bonding process. Emotional fulfillment is a reflection of your mental and emotional well-being. To be emotionally fulfilled means you have a healthy sense of well-being, you have an increased sense of self-confidence, and healthy stress management. Most of us place our emotional fulfillment and happiness in material things, and the opposite is true. We must find emotional…
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The Importance Of Parent-Child Bonding
The parent-child bonding process is the genesis of the child’s psychological development. Therefore, the absence of the bonding process could, in fact, produce stress and trauma in a child’s life. In addition, experiences such as neglect, abandonment, and lack of communication could be subtle ways the child may experience trauma. The Bonding Process When there is an active bonding process, both parent and child produce an essential hormone and chemical called Oxytocin, a vital chemical needed for bonding. So in addition, are necessary chemicals called Dopamine, Serotonin, and Endorphins which all play a pivotal role in the child’s brain development. These chemicals help in the development of the child’s brain and help them function successfully in society. They…
