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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): PTSD is a condition that can develop following a traumatic and/or terrifying event. People with PTSD often have lasting and frightening thoughts, dreams, and memories of a traumatic and/or terrifying event.

Career Counseling is a process that will help you to know and understand yourself and the world of work in order to make career, educational, and life decisions. The focus of career counseling is generally on issues such as career exploration, career change, personal career development, and other career-related issues.

Life is a process of beginnings and endings. Life can be unpredictable, challenging, and difficult. Life transitions are challenging because they force us to let go of the familiar and face the future with a feeling of vulnerability. Most life transitions begin with a string of losses:

• The loss of a role
• The loss of a person
• The loss of a place
• The loss of your sense of where you fit in the world

Life transitions are often difficult, but they have a positive side, too. They provide us with an opportunity to assess the direction our lives are taking. Life transitions give one a chance to grow and learn.

Coping skills are abilities or talents employed to effectively respond to issues that result in disadvantages or adversity. Coping is a response to physical, cognitive, and psychological stressors. If one’s coping skills are not able to effectively address the stressor, there can be an increase in impaired functioning. Looking at how we cope, and what we want the outcome to be, are important steps to improving overall functioning.

Food addiction manifests itself in the uncontrollable craving for excess food that follows the ingestion of refined carbohydrates, primarily sugar and flour substances that are quickly metabolized and turned into sugar in the bloodstream.
Due to those uncontrollable cravings, a food addict’s quality of life deteriorates when he or she eats sugar, flour, or wheat. It can deteriorate physically, emotionally, socially, and/or spiritually.

A life coach helps you get from where you are in your life now, to where you want to go. It is someone who supports you, motivates you, and holds you accountable for achieving your vision for yourself. Whatever it is that you want in your life, they will help you get it.

A life coach helps you:

• Get crystal clear on what you really what in your life
• Uncover what’s holding you back from achieving your vision for yourself
• Take action steps to achieve your vision by supporting you and keeping you accountable

Life after Loss: Dealing with Grief and Loss is an inevitable part of life, and grief is a natural part of the healing process. Everyone grieves differently, and there is no right or wrong way to grieve. People are different in how long their grief lasts and their reactions to the loss. Some typical reactions include:

• Feeling sad or down, frequent crying

  Shock, denial, or feeling “numb”

• Feeling stressed, anxious, exhausted or confused
• Anger, guilt, shame, blame, or relief
• Feeling lonely, isolated, or withdrawn
• Not feeling yourself or acting differently than usual
• Physical health problems – headaches, change in eating habits or sleeping patterns
• Difficulties concentrating, making mistakes at work or school
• Not enjoying your normal activities or hobbies
• Difficulties or tension in personal relationships – loved ones may cope differently with the loss
• Increased alcohol, smoking, or drug use
• Feeling hopeless or like you can’t go on, thoughts of suicide or self-harm.

All these reactions to grief are common, and you may experience different emotions and reactions at different times.

Low self-esteem is a person’s overall negative emotional evaluation of his or her own self-worth. Having low self-esteem is not just a global sense of being worthless; it manifests itself in action and later behavior. That person feels inadequate in social situations, including dating, and incapable of accomplishing any demanding (and desirable) work. When these behaviors/feelings are severe, that individual becomes a failure. Feeling profoundly pessimistic, he/she will not try to accomplish anything worthwhile. Anything challenging will seem to be too difficult. Expectations of failure become self-fulfilling.

Peer relationships are friendship that is based on mutual respect, appreciation, and liking. This kind of relationship exists when people share a common interest and grew up together. There are important as they lead to a sense of belonging and avoid loneliness.

Obesity is a condition that is associated with having an excess of body fat, defined by genetic and environmental factors that are difficult to control when dieting. Obesity is classified as having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or greater. BMI is a tool used to measure obesity. Obesity increases your risk of developing related conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and sleep apnea, to name a few. Many individuals are affected by obesity and are not aware of it.

Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health, or physical fitness, is a reduction of the total body mass, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat, or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon, and other connective tissue. It can occur unintentionally due to an underlying disease, or can arise from a conscious effort to improve an actual or perceived overweight or obese state.