Living Well

Your family, your health, your life

Living Well depends on healthy relationships. For most of us the beginning of a relationship will go well. But later on the relationship begins to fail or we lose interest.

Here are 5 skills to help you gain an emotional intelligence in your relationships.

The ability to:

manage stress
manage emotions
communicate nonverbally
use humor and play
resolve conflict

Learn how to improve your relationships (Helpguide.org)

Family Life:

Family Bathroom Families are complicated. We live together and we fight each other and we love each other. Sometime we need support to become better at parenting, growing up and growing old.

Support for Parents, Children and Elders

Parenting Skills: An excellent guide for parents (WebMD)

Start your search here at the Drug Free America site :
Partnership for Drug Free America - protecting your children

Another guide: Talking with your child: a guide (SAMHSA)

Co-Parenting and Blended Families:

Eldercare: Helping parents and children with aging.

Your Health

Support for physical and mental health

Crisis Resources

Suicide hotlines, domestic and child abuse, addiction, missing children

Healthy Adults, children, seniors

Marriage and Relationships

Grief, loss, bereavement

Working Well

Improving Performance

Finding balance between our work and our family is difficult. When we are out of balance problems occur in our personal relationships and perhaps in our job performance.

Support for workers often includes:

Counseling for troubled employees
Assessment and referral for poor performance
Recognizing Drug & Alcohol Abuse
Dealing with Sexual Harassment
Preventing Violence in the Workplace

When you may need counseling

Late for work again. Can't seem to get any rest. Not sleeping well. Unable to concentrate. Performance is off. You seem to have lost your passion for work. Your performance may be due to depression or stress. Learn to manage stress and fight depression.

From helpguide.org.
How to Reduce, Prevent and Cope with Stress
Understanding Depression