Beyond Blue https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue Beliefnet Voices - Therese J. Borchard Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:15:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Seven Ways to Get Over an Infatuation https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue/2014/02/seven-ways-to-get-over-an-infatuation.html https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue/2014/02/seven-ways-to-get-over-an-infatuation.html#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:46:43 +0000 http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue/?p=7325 “Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I” wrote US songwriter Lorenz Hart about the feeling of infatuation. It’s blissful and euphoric, as we all know. But it’s also addicting, messy and blinding. Without careful monitoring, its wild wind can rage through your life leaving you...

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]]> “Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I” wrote US songwriter Lorenz Hart about the feeling of infatuation. It’s blissful and euphoric, as we all know. But it’s also addicting, messy and blinding. Without careful monitoring, its wild wind can rage through your life leaving you...

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]]> When does reciting scripture become a symptom of neurosis? Or praying the rosary an unhealthy compulsion? Not until I had the Book of Psalms practically memorized as a young girl did I learn that words and acts of faith can morph into desperate measures to control a mood disorder, that...

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]]> https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue/2014/01/when-faith-turns-neurotic.html/feed/ 5 How to Handle Negative People https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue/2014/01/how-to-handle-negative-people.html https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue/2014/01/how-to-handle-negative-people.html#comments Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:32:10 +0000 http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue/?p=7315 One of my mom’s best pieces of advice: “Hang with the winners.” This holds true in support groups (stick with the people who have the most sobriety), in college (find the peeps with good study habits), and in your workplace (stay away from the drama queen at the water...

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]]> One of my mom’s best pieces of advice: “Hang with the winners.” This holds true in support groups (stick with the people who have the most sobriety), in college (find the peeps with good study habits), and in your workplace (stay away from the drama queen at the water...

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]]> For people prone to depression and anxiety – i.e. human beings – the holidays invite countless possibility to get sucked into negative and catastrophic thinking. You take the basic stressed-out individual and you increase her to-do list by a third, stuff her full of refined sugar and processed...

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]]> https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue/2013/11/8-coping-strategies-for-the-holidays.html/feed/ 6 Can I Say I’m a Son or Daughter of Christ and Suffer From Depression? https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue/2013/10/can-i-say-im-a-son-or-daughter-of-christ-and-suffer-from-depression.html https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/beyondblue/2013/10/can-i-say-im-a-son-or-daughter-of-christ-and-suffer-from-depression.html#comments Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:56:04 +0000 http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/?p=7301 In 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, we read: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” What if we aren’t glad, we aren’t capable of rejoicing, and even prayer is...

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]]> In 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, we read: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” What if we aren’t glad, we aren’t capable of rejoicing, and even prayer is...

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Even as I love the autumn season, it is full of anxiety for me (like every other season, come to think of it).

I start to mourn the ending of summer when I hear the cicadas grow louder the last two weeks of August and when I feel the crispness in the air at that time, which brings less...

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]]> Even as I love the autumn season, it is full of anxiety for me (like every other season, come to think of it). I start to mourn the ending of summer when I hear the cicadas grow louder the last two weeks of August and when I feel the crispness in the air at that time, which brings less...

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]]> You let the woman of your dreams get away. You made a parenting mistake that still haunts you. You quit an okay job only to replace it with a lousy one. You cheated a friend. And on and on and on. You want so badly to reverse the clock and do it again … the right way. Regrets can...

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F.E.A.R – Forget everything and run. We are wired to fear, as fear has kept us alive back when we had hair on our feet, and continues to save our lives today when something threatens our existence. The almond-shaped cluster within our brain known as the amygdala, or fear center, is...

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]]> F.E.A.R – Forget everything and run. We are wired to fear, as fear has kept us alive back when we had hair on our feet, and continues to save our lives today when something threatens our existence. The almond-shaped cluster within our brain known as the amygdala, or fear center, is...

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Your husband ditches you for a girl half his age after 23 years of marriage. The tenth job interview you’ve been on results in another ding letter. Your friends get together for a beer and don’t extend an invitation to you. We all endure rejection, but for us sensitive types, it can be devastating and...

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]]> Your husband ditches you for a girl half his age after 23 years of marriage. The tenth job interview you’ve been on results in another ding letter. Your friends get together for a beer and don’t extend an invitation to you. We all endure rejection, but for us sensitive types, it can be devastating and...

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]]> The definition of FUNK: “to shrink from in fright or dread.” Oh yeah, and “a state of severe depression.” I like to think of it as the Diet Coke of depression … some of the same discomfort, symptoms, yuck, but also not the intense wrestling belonging to our friend, depression. When you’re in one, all...

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