Articles from Kathleen Howe | Selfgrowth.com
- Self Talk: The Essential Element of Self Help
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Submitted on Aug 31, 2009 from Kathleen Howe"The mind is a terrible thing to waste." I bet you can remember this slogan being used by The United Negro Fund. It was on television more times that I could count - for years. It was memorized through subliminal message by many a boomer. But the mind IS a terrible thing to waste and not just ...
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( 2 votes) - Relief for Experiencing Emotions and Feelings Through Hypervigilence
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Submitted on Aug 16, 2009 from Kathleen HoweHypervigilence... it's what life is all about when dealing with post traumatic stress disorder. Everything is extreme, intensified, all or nothing, and it's incredibly difficult to simply relax upon demand, but it's what we must learn to do if we've been diagnosed with PTSD. The plague of ...
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( 2 votes) - Praying For Those Who Have Wronged You in the Past
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Submitted on Aug 10, 2009 from Kathleen HoweHaving had a very difficult past wrought in domestic violence and relationship dysfunction it occurred to me recently that it would be better to forgive those who wronged me in the past than to hang on to the negative energy I held within me through horrible memories and unresolved feelings and ...
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( 1 vote) - Making A Commitment To Ones Self
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Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Kathleen HoweSeven years ago I made the first commitment I'd made to my self in my entire life. That's right! I was forty-five years old and had never paid much attention to the commitments in my life. If things didn't work out, oh well! I had that attitude since my teenager years. My parents never taught me ...
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( 2 votes) - Treatment Expectations for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/Depression
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Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Kathleen HoweAs an individual with post traumatic stress disorder and depression, I've found it extremely difficult to know what to expect for treatment of my disorders. There isn't much written about the average joe out there that either suspects there's a possibility he/she may be experiencing PTSD or ...
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( 1 vote) - Avoidance Behaviors Are Dangerous
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Submitted on Jul 05, 2009 from Kathleen HoweNot only are avoidance behaviors commonplace for those experiencing post traumatic stress disorder; people in general have a tendency to avoid what they don't know what to do with. Avoidance behaviors revolve around our fears. What are you afraid of? You avoid it like the plague I'll bet! Those ...
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( 1 vote) - Night Eating Syndrome Often Comes Back
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Submitted on Jun 18, 2009 from Kathleen HoweNight eating syndrome, an eating/sleeping disorder that is still being pushed and pulled upon to determine where it belongs in the DSMV can lurk in the background once the night eater gains control of the chronic habit and stops the practice of waking and immediately choosing white flour/white ...
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- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Who Doesn't Have It?
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Submitted on Aug 26, 2008 from Kathleen HoweAs I continue to grow in my personal growth recovery journey I find that there are more people out there in the world that have undiagnosed PTSD than ever. Of course, I must take into consideration the emerging troops from Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries in which war and violence are a ...
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- Night Eating Syndrome1
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Submitted on May 06, 2008 from Kathleen HoweI know about Night Eating Syndrome. I know what it's like to get up in the middle of the night - every night - to march in a zombie-like trance to my kitchen in methodical searches for the "white flour/white sugar" treasures in my pantry. I know what it's like to eat, continually chewing, ...
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- Unresolved Emotions and Feelings: Getting Familiar with your Past
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Submitted on Jul 17, 2007 from Kathleen HoweThe older we get – the more we forget – or so it seems. When I began my personal growth journey for recovery I began remembering the most traumatic events that transpired when I was a child. After researching information concerning memories, I realized that some of the things I was remembering ...
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( 1 vote) - Digging up Unresolved Emotions and Feelings
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Submitted on Jul 17, 2007 from Kathleen HoweI speak to people everyday about the importance of emotions and feelings in our daily life. Most of them are completely numbed and all they can do is nod their head while reading my words or simply sigh when I’m finished speaking. They’re knee deep in symptoms of mental illness; depression or an ...
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( 1 vote) - Gas Prices Are the Highest They’ve Ever Been
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Submitted on Jun 04, 2007 from Kathleen HoweFive years isn’t a very long time; but it seems like a very long time when you are struggling to notice every inhale and exhale, every step your foot takes, every smell you breathe in, every single thing that you touch, all the sounds that you hear and the struggle involves becoming “aware” of ...
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