by Dr. Gregg Jantz | Aug 30, 2018 | Counseling, Depression, Mental Health, Recovery, Self-Esteem, Uncategorized |
I plead with you not to dim the light of the truth that you have immense worth. If you are working to recover from emotional exhaustion, you must keep your bulb lit and never let it go out or allow others to put it out.
by Hannah Smith | Jul 27, 2018 | Anxiety, Eating disorders, Recovery, Self-Esteem, Uncategorized |
“Things are going so well…I’m really nervous. Something bad is bound to happen now!” Have you ever heard or thought something like this before? “The other shoe is going to drop” sentiment is a common pothole on the road to recovery. Sadly, this type of thinking...
by Dr. Gregg Jantz | May 31, 2018 | Abuse, Childhood Depression, Childhood Eating Disorders, Kids, Parenting, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Uncategorized |
One of the core traits of a dependent personality is difficulty accepting challenging or disturbing truths about self or others out of a need to maintain the status quo.
by Dr. Gregg Jantz | May 21, 2018 | Anger, Causes, Childhood Depression, Depression, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Stress |
Often, it’s only when our eyes have been washed clear with buckets of tears that we will ever get a handle on the larger vision for ourselves and our place in the world.
by Dr. Gregg Jantz | May 5, 2018 | Anxiety, Counseling, Happiness, Relationships, Self-Esteem |
How you feel about yourself affects all of your other relationships. Some of you may not be used to the idea that you have a distinct relationship with yourself, but you do.
by Dr. Gregg Jantz | Feb 28, 2018 | Childhood Depression, Kids, Parenting, Self-Esteem |
Julie looked up and scanned the bleachers. Nope, he wasn’t there yet. Taking a deep breath, she steeled herself for the fact he probably wouldn’t make it — again. When it came to her swim meets, something always seemed to come up — an...
by Dr. Gregg Jantz | Jun 30, 2017 | Abuse, Addictions, Alcohol, Anxiety, Causes, Eating disorders, Parenting, Perfection, PTSD, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Stress, Teenagers |
I believe a negative pattern of worry is established in childhood, based upon life circumstances, experiences, and perceptions. So, in order to find a way out, you need to be able to backtrack along your way in, to where worry started in the first place.
by Dr. Gregg Jantz | Mar 30, 2017 | Abuse, Anxiety, Perfection, Self-Esteem |
Any kind of abuse, emotional abuse included, is an attack on a person’s sense of self. It demeans and controls that person through words or actions, devaluing that person and ultimately elevating the abuser.
by Dr. Gregg Jantz | Feb 6, 2017 | Christ, Counseling, Depression Recovery, Depression Treatment, Self-Esteem, Stress |
Perhaps you have forgotten who you really are. Maybe you’ve never known. What causes a negative image of yourself? Your life story holds some valuable clues to solving the mystery.
by Dr. Gregg Jantz | Nov 17, 2016 | Causes, Depression, Depression Recovery, Depression Treatment, Parenting, Self-Esteem, Uncategorized |
Sadly, many of us grow into adulthood with a list of childhood truths that can include many false and incomplete truths. Families, for good or ill, give us our first lessons about ourselves.
by Dr. Gregg Jantz | Feb 13, 2016 | Parenting, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Teen Eating Disorders |
The nearest comparison I could give to what I remember about being a teen and what I hear from teenagers about adolescence is that of a reptile shedding its skin. When a snake or a lizard sheds its skin, the new growing skin cells separate from the old established...
by Dr. Gregg Jantz | Jan 23, 2016 | Anxiety, Depression Recovery, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Stress |
Your working relationships can be affected if the personalities of your boss or co-workers closely approximate someone in your past who emotionally abused you. Your boss could be just like your dad. A supervisor could treat you just like your mother did. A co-worker...
