Essential Need for Affirmation: Healing and Hope – Part 2
Read this Part 2 of series by Allison Ricciardi, LMHC as she provides suggestions on the remedy to receiving authentic affirmation and find hope and healing.
The Essential Need for Affirmation – First of 2 Part Series
What is needed to help people feel loved? Without this critical element, children will simply not have what they need to become who God created them to be.
What to do When Life Seems Out of Control
With all that’s going on in the world today it’s easy to start feeling that things are simply out of control and that we are living in chaos. Well, there’s good news and bad news on that front.
Is There a Difference Between Depression and Sadness?
We’ve seen since the 1960s among both men and women an exponentially epidemic of depression in the United States and other western countries. What’s at the heart of this epidemic of depression?
Live a Life of Quiet Inspiration
Many men and women today feel desperate and deep despair, but are their fears true? They may be feeling despair, but does that indicate that things can never improve?
God’s Wisdom and Our Emotional Life
St. Thomas Aquinas taught how emotions, by their nature, want to, and need to be guided by reason. Taking the time to understand them better, respect them, and use them more wisely is critical to living happy and peaceful lives – both as individuals and as a society.
The Downside of Healing
Imagine if you slipped into a coma when you were 13 years old. When you’re 40 you wake up, defying all medical odds and explanations. A miracle, for sure! No one can deny that. And yet, instead of being happy, you start to fall into a depression. So much has changed....
Perspective Matters
I spent some time on the beach the other day, soaking in the last rays of summer. I noticed a plane soaring through the cloudless, azure sky. I watched as it got smaller and smaller before completely disappearing into the blue. I thought about the fact that at that...
We Get What We Look For
We all know someone like this. No matter what they do or who they deal with they get the short end of it – or “screwed” to use a more popular phrase. I’m always amazed with certain people as it seems to be infallible for them. The mechanic, their boss, their...
Was My Mom Kidding Me?
I remember it like it was yesterday…that shocking moment in the basement so long ago. I was probably about five or six and was with my mom looking for something when she made a casual comment that began with “when I was a little girl….” Now, I don’t remember her story...
