Is the Pain You’re Feeling Really Love?

Robert Denton is an experienced therapist who specializes in coaching people for stress and burnout and shares an interesting story on his blog — a story he feels is a recurring one that can cause much suffering and affect both personal and professional lives. When stress of any sort mounts to enormous levels, it can can definitely lead to burnout. Among your treatment choices is to take action and change your environment. But Many equate leaving the relationship with running away from the situation.

Denton points out that the stress of remaining in a bad situation can be dangerously unhealthy. It adversely affects your immune system and your balance in life, work and personal development. You may not realize it but to stay put in such a situation and endure suffering as the victim is another form of running away! You’re running away from your responsibility to take care of yourself. Denton closes with more words of wisdom including that reducing stress begins with analyzing and changing oneself instead of putting the blame on others. For more on well-studied healer and author Robert Denton’s post, go to robertpaul.wordpress.com. (I really enjoyed all he had to say.)

Have You Lost Yourself in Your Relationship?

Colin Martin shares that what you bring to your love relationship is a unique and valuable collection of characteristics that is your very own essence and that losing yourself in what becomes the couple is a common challenge with people in any stage of relationship. If you feel lost and lonely in the absence of your amour’s presence you could be suffering from this problem. But don’t worry! Mr. Martin gives us ideas on how to get back to taking care of yourself for both your own benefit as well as the benefit of your love relationship. After all,l if you are not taken care of, how does that help the two of you? Among his seven tips are

Don’t let your friends drift away, but rather make efforts to connect with them as this will also help you be able to just be yourself.
Continue to be involved in what you love to do.
Pamper yourself.

For the complete list and other details on how to not lose yourself, go to the Relationship Artist Blog.

Enjoy the Great Outdoors with a Snuggle

What’s summer without lazing about outside? Here’s an eco-friendly way to snuggle with your honey out in the yard: Check out this durable Ultimate Hammock made from recycled soda bottles, It feels like cotton! And it’s built wide to accommodate the two of you. It can handle up to 450 lbs. For more information, see giam.com.