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Five (5) Tips Fighting The Sluggish Tired Feeling During The Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic


As the COVID-19 pandemic and the related stay at home orders continue, many people continue to report feeling tired and sluggish even though they are home and not doing as much as they normally do. The Coronavirus has significantly impacted the structure and organization that many people had in their lives In the midst of all the chaos that the COVID-191 pandemic is causing, it is important to find ways to bring some normalcy back into life, because the lack of it is encouraging our internal systems to live through the day without the resources of a new day. Something as simple as getting out of bed in the morning, or getting dressed for the day can send the message that it is time to wake up and get you mind and body moving in that direction.

Five (5) Reasons To Use Your EAP During The Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic (15)


During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people’s mental health needs may be more than they can handle on their own. Shelter in place, stay at home or quarantine orders issued to help reduce the spread of the Coronavirus are likely to increase stress and anxiety in many people includng adults and children. The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) from most people’s jobs can help them get the help they need for the employee and their family. The EAP is one of the most underutilized free resources available to most people who have a job, along with their families. While many people complain about the cost of therapy, many EAPs will cover 5-6 or sometimes more private therapy sessions for an employee or their family. As we continue to stay home to flatten the curve and stop the spread of the Coronavirus, most people would greatly benefit from the support services offered by their EAP.

Five (5) Tips For People With ADHD / ADD Working From Home During A Pandemic


During the COVID-19 pandemic many people are working from home to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. This includes many people with adult ADHD / adult ADD who have great systems in place to help manage their symptoms at work. The change in your routine can impact productivity and the ability to stay focused. By taking steps such as setting up an office in a quieter away space in the home can help make the situation more manageable as you apply tools to help replicate your regular work space in your home office. Applying tools to adapt your existing system to your new home office environment can make the transition to working from home more adaptable.

Five (5) Important Reminders For Managing ADHD / ADD During A Pandemic


The COVID-19 pandemic is causing major disruptions in everyday life and the precautions needed to curb the spread of the Coronavirus is impacting the ability to maintain the systems used to manage ADHD / ADD. While there are many changes that individuals don’t control, there are steps that you can take to ensure that you are not completely thrown off your path while we work our way out of this pandemic. Instead of abandoning your ADHD / ADD management systems completely, it is more effective to make adjustments as they become needed. During this time of social distancing maintaining some level of structure is difficult, but it is important to keep as much of your routine as possible. This way, when the Coronavirus is gone and the world returns to normal life, you will not need to start over. ADD / ADHD symptoms can be managed with a plan, but if you allow circumstances to cause you to neglect your plan the behaviors that you have worked hard to manage will return. After this pandemic there will be an elevated stress level as everyone attempts to return to normal. This will be a time you need your system working for you, not when you want to be relearning the system. To prevent the back sliding, keep up with you SPOS as much as possible.

Five (5) Easy Ways To Keep Your Sanity During A Pandemic (Coronavirus, COVID-19)


The pandemonium surrounding a pandemic causes more than just disruptions in everyday life. With so many changes, so many things unknown and out of your control, sometimes it can feel like you are loosing it. Even in the midst of all the chaos, there are things that you can do to help keep your sanity. Taking simple basic steps such as keeping a schedule and employing good self-care can help to manage the stress and make the process more manageable. We don’t know at this time how long the COVID-19 outbreak will last, but with the continued spread of the Coronavirus, it is important to set in place tools and systems to help maintain everyday life as much as possible in case this pandemic lasts longer than what people think or expect. It would be great if it could end as quickly as it seems to have started. Creating a system to maintain stability and of course your sanity can make getting through the process less painful.

Five (5) Mental Health Issues That Can Be Impacted During A Pandemic (Coronavirus, COVID-19)


A pandemic can cause great disruption in most people’s lives. For people with mental health issues there is the added risk of their symptoms being impacted. The Coronavirus and COVID-19 have cause such great disruption that he pandemic has thrown many communities into pandemonium. People who have existing mental health issues need to be especially mindful to notice any change in their symptoms and behaviors so that any changes can be noticed before they develop into a and additional crisis..

Five (5) Considerations For Finding A Starting Point For Your Goal (BTI 12)

Picking your starting point is an important step that can guide your goal journey. Once you get started the journey can often carry you through to your goal, but it all hinges on finding a starting point to get you on your way. The BTI series include short, actionable clips based on the book Breaking Through Infinity: The Habit of Changing Habits

Five (5) Behaviors To Avoid While Your Partner Deals With Your Infidelity

When healing after infidelity sometimes things don’t progress as both parties would like. Even is you don’t understand your partner’s healing process it is important to allow them to work through their healing and avoid behaviors that can hinder or disrupt their healing or jeopardize your ability to mend your relationship.

Five (5) Reasons To Make Mental Health A Priority

Mental health is crucial to our everyday wellness, but it is often overlooked. We must make it a priority to take the time to address signs and symptoms of mental health issues as they present. If you are not in good mental health, you are not in good health and other are of your life will likely be impacted. Mental health issues don’t resolve themselves. We all need to make nurturing our mental health and getting help when needed a priority and not wait until celebrities like Wendy Williams and Big Sean open up about mental health to start thinking or talking about it.

Five (5) Benefits Of Asking Questions In Communication

Asking questions is an important yet often overlooked part of communication. There are many benefits to asking questions that can help individuals or couples improve their communication skills.

Five (5) Reasons To Break Goals Down Into Objectives (BTI 9)

Goals can sometimes seem so big they can be intimidating. Breaking them down to objectives make them more manageable. Objectives are smaller pieces that come together to make up your overall goal. When you break a goal down to objectives it is less scary, because it’s easier to see how you can tackle these smaller pieces.

Five (5) Ways Side Jobs (Taking On Additional Responsibilities) Can Impact Your Relationship

Second jobs, side hustles or any new commitment can have an impact on your relationship. Prior to committing to to engagements and responsibilities in addition to your existing work day it is important consider how your relationship will be impacted.

Five (5) Tips For Making Your Therapy Productive

Five (5) Tips For Dealing With Ongoing [Long-Term] Infidelity


Infidelity is often thought of in terms of brief encounters, but there are instances where infidelity last several months and even years. These situations involving ongoing outside relationships come with a different set of complications than what is experienced with everyday infidelity. It is important for people in those situations to take time to address the situation as well as the emotions and complications that come with them.

Five (5) Things People With ADHD / ADD Need You To Know


Sometimes knowing makes all the difference. There are some things that people do when interacting with people with ADHD / ADD that do not have the intended results. There are a few small things that if kept in mind can greatly help improve the efficiency of interacting with people with ADHD / ADD.

Five (5) Things To Do Before Trial Separations

Trial separations do not provide enough of an opportunity to work on your relationship, nor an accurate picture of a true end of a marriage. Instead of a trial separations, couples should create opportunities to work on their relationship while they are together. In order to truly be able to assess their options. Instead of seeing how life could be apart, couples who want to repair their marriage need to employ more proactive actions such as participating in marriage counseling, improving communication skills and addressing the core issues in their relationship if their goal is to prevent divorce.

Five (5) Reasons To Say No To Trial Separations

People often consider a trial separation and convince themselves that this is a part of figuring out the next step in their marriage. However, working on a relationship does not including exploring a way out or pausing the relationship. Trial separations are more of a practice divorce than relationship. That type of situation often create more insecurities in the relationship, more opportunities for to create distance between the couple and few opportunities to truly work on improving the relationship. During trial separations people are often too busy looking to see if the separation works to really do true work to repair the marriage. Couples who separate get a chance to idealize what life apart would be, but they do not get a true sense of the way divorce would really be.

Five (5) Tips For dating after infidelity

Infidelity can shake you. It can even change some things in you. No matter what, It’s important to heal and get back out there. These are a few tips to help.

Five (5) Ways Passive Aggressive Behaviors Hurt Your Relationship

Five (5) Ways A Calendar Helps You Manage ADHD