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How to Cope With Grief by Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
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When someone you love passes away, you’re likely to experience a wide range of emotions, from sadness and guilt to anger and denial. It’s vital to learn how to cope with grief by maintaining your mental and physical health. Below are some tips to help you cope with grief by making healthy lifestyle choices during this time.
Read Full Post »Getting Away, Starting Over: Advice for Domestic Abuse Survivors
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Leaving an abusive relationship can be an agonizing decision. Women may stay for years despite repeated incidents of domestic violence or many reasons, from a lack of resources to the fear of the unknown and the uncertainty of starting over. But when the situation spirals into uncontrolled violence, getting away quickly and safely becomes a matter of life and death.
Read Full Post »What is Domestic Violence
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What is Domestic Violence?
A pattern of abusive and threatening actions used to dominate power and control over an intimate dating partner or spouse. An abusive partner uses many types of abuse. Domestic violence includes the use of physical,sexual violence, threats and intimidation, stalking, emotional,psychological, financial control and spiritual abuse. The power and control wheel is used to help identify a patte...
Read Full Post »What is trauma
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What is trauma ( toxic stress) A physical, emotional, and spiritual reaction due to an interpretation of a life event that overwhelms the capacity to cope. Having hidden pain manifest in our behavior.
Hurt people, hurt people.Those who are victims of such things live, with recurring memories of what they witnessed.It infects their sleep, dest...
Read Full Post »Systems need to change
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