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Brenda Shoshanna's Articles in General Self Help

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  • 4 Steps To Finding Joy In Your Relationships
    Usually we enter relationships hoping they will make us happy. When our needs and wants are met and fulfilled, we feel good. Although this kind of approach to relationships is common, it iusually brings disappointment.In order to base our lives and relationships on a solid foundation we need to understand the crucial difference between happiness and joy. This article points this out and offers specific steps to take in living the difference.
  • 5 Tips for Constructive Anger Management at The Workplace
    Anger can be a lethal force at the workplace, undermining atmosphere, productivity and workplace relaitonships. Based upon her new book, The Anger Diet, Dr. Shoshanna provides five essential steps to take to balance workplace relationships and allow you to easily turn negative feelings into constructive workplace behavior.
  • 5 Ways To Increase The Joy In Your Relationships
    Most are not aware of the difference between happiness and joy in a relationship. Happiness is fleeting, and depends upon circumstances. Joy can grow between two people no matter what is going on. This article describes specific steps to take to build the joy between you, and feel truly fulfilled.
  • 7 Steps For Melting Anger On The Spot
    Anger is a lethal force that undermines our lives in many ways. This article explores what anger actually is, where it comes from and how it manifests. It also offers 7 specific steps for dissolving anger easily.
  • Creating Workplace Harmony: Discover and Release Hidden Causes of Tension
    Anger has turned into an epidemic in our world together. However, it is not difficult to release tension and create harmony in your enviornment and relationships if you understand the basic truths about anger, and how to make new choices in your life. Once we become aware of the underlying causes of our upsets, it is a simple matter to replace negative perceptions and behaviors with behavior that creates well being for all.
  • From Anger To Peace of Mind
    Anger is a serious problem for one in every five Americans. Today we fear all kinds of external enemies. It is often not so easy to see that our greatest enemy is the anger we carry within. This article, based on the award winning book The Anger Diet, describes the 24 forms of anger and show us how to eliminate some of them right on the spot.
  • How Love Grows (Practical Steps To Keeping Love Alive)
    We are meant to live a life of love. Yet no matter how successful we are in other aspects of our lives, many do not feel it is possible to succeed at love. This article offers specific, practical, enjoyable steps which help love grow in all areas of your life.
  • How To Be Well Nourished In Your Relationship
    It's deliciious tgo feel well nourished in relationships. There's a yearning we all bring to relationships to be cared for, appreciated and understood. Yet, many do not understand what is really needed to get the love we want. This article describes the basis of feel full and complete, and how we can have it all the time.
  • How To Break The Addiction To Anger
    Addiction to anger is one of the most common and lethal forms of addiction around. It is so common that many do not realize they're in the grip of it. This article explores the nature of addiction, shows how it affects our lives and why it grows. It also offers specific exercises to loosen the grip of the addiction and break free.
  • How To Feed The Hungry Heart
    Most of us live our lives hungry for love, praise, attention and success. Bbut no matter how much we do, or how we seek, after we receive what we have been looking for, we feel empty within. Then the search continues. This article explores what is necessary to find true fulfillment. Exercises are included.
  • How To Handle Change Beautifully
    We come into life empty-handed and then begin to grab and hold onto everything. This articles describes how to be comfortable with change. We see why we grow so attached and how to naturally let go so that when change comes, as it inevitably must, we are able to accept it graciously and move forward.
  • How To Know If it's Really Love? (Finding the Real Thing)
    Although a relationship may start out wonderfully, many often grow to feel that things change and the love has disappeared. They wonder where it went and if it was the real thing? This article describes the difference between real and counterfeit love. It explores the nature of real love and how to be in it all the time. Exercise included.
  • How To Know If It's Time To Stay or Go In Your Relationship?
    Many individuals spend a great deal of time in relationships wondering whether the person is right for them, and if they should stay or go. However, there are certain checkpoints we can ask ourselves which give a clear direction about which road to follow. This article provides some of these checkpoints and will help you understand more what's going on and what to do.
  • How To Reject Rejection
    Rejection is one of the most painful experiences in relationships. This article shows what causes us to feel rejected, and offers steps to take to eliminate this experience in our lives. Exercises included.
  • How We Sabotage Ourselves And What To Do About It
    Most of us sabotage ourselves unknowingly, not realizing the powerful force of anger in our lives. This article explores the nature of anger and offers some easy and yet extremely effective antidotes to it. When we replace anger with these antidotes, not only does self sabotage cease, but many other symptoms and tensions dissolve easily as well.
  • Journey Through Illness And Beyond
    Many questions arise in our minds and hearts when someone close to us is ill. These questions have many different answers, and arise in many ways. It is essential that we face these questions in order to be able to be with the person who is ill in the most healing way possible. This article explores the different questions that arise, and the journey we go on during illness. An exercise is included.
  • Learn How It's Impossible To Fail At Love
    Usually relationshiops start out wonderfully and everyone feels that finally, they've found the "one". When problems come up, down the road, no one knows exactly where the love has gone. But, difficulties and pain arise oly because we do not know the simple laws of love. Once these laws are known and practiced, it's impossible to fail at love.
  • Learn The Art of Relationship Balancing
    Relationships at the office are a powerful factor in contributing to success and productivity. This article explores a basic step towards healthy workplace relationships - relationship balancing. It describes the process of relationship balancing and the causes of unbalanced relationships and how to correct them. A short questionnaire and excerise are also provided.
  • Nourishing Ourselves and Others In Relationships (The Zen Way)
    It's delicious to feel well nourished in relationships. There's a hunger we have for all kinds of warmth, kindness and appreciation. However, most of us go about getting our needs met in the wrong way. Our focus is always upon what we are "receiving". This article shows how we can always feel fulfilled in relationships, no matter what. Exercises are included.
  • Renewing Your Love For Each Other
    While it is easy to become embedded in routines, this can also numb us to what's going on both within ourselves and in our relationships. In order for relatoinships to thrive it is necessary to put aside quality time both for oneself and one'sr partner and follow steps to continually renew your love. This article discusses this process and offers two basic steps in keeping things alive and fresh.
  • Save Your Marriage (How To Deal With Threats To Your Marriage)
    In every marriage there are times when the partners are tested and required to stop and re-define their relationship. This article deals with the nature of threat in a marriage and with one of the most difficult ones, infidelity. It offers specific guidance on how to deal with challenges and use hard times to make the marriage stronger than it was before.
  • Six Important Facts No One Tells You About Relationships
    Most of us have dreams about what relationships are, or will be like. Then we becme disappointed or afraid when things unfold differently. In this article, Dr. Shoshanna clearly states 6 important facts about relationships that you need to know before entering into them. Armed with this information, you will be better able to deal with inevitable ups and down.
  • Six Quick Steps To Releasing Anger And Feeling Good Again
    Anger is a lethal force that undermines our lives in many ways. Most do not realize that anger is a choice we make and that we can easily learn to make new choices and feel good again quickly. This article explores different ways to regain peace of mind when anger strikes.
  • Steps To Breaking The Addiction To Anger
    It is not difficult to break the addiction to anger when we understand its causes and take correct steps. Article offers information and specific guidelines and ridding oneself of this dangerous toxin which destroys our lives.
  • The Different Ways Men Say "I Love You"
    Men express their love for women in many ways. And yet, unless some women hear those precious words, "I love you", they feel something precious is missing. This article describes the different ways in which men express their love and what saying "I love you" means to various kinds of men. This is an exploration of what it means to love and feel loved.
  • The Greatest Gift - What is It?
    Although we give many things in relationship, often the greatest gift is not available. This greatest gift is our true selves, the real person behind the roles and games. This article describes what it is that causes us to play games, thus causing difficulties. It also offers clear understanding of how to let go of these masks we wear, and to become who we truly are.
  • The Perfect Person
    We all want love, but when we find it so many run in the opposite direction. This article explores what is is we look for in love, who the perfect person is and where we can truly find them. The article offers exercises to show us what it is we do to keep love away, and how simple it truly is to find just what we want and need.
  • The Power of Thankfulness
    There is one sure fire medicine which cures all pain and opens the way for your greatest good. It is readily available, has no side effects and the more you take it, the sweeter it is. This is the power of thankfulness. This article shows how thankfulness is more than a feeling, but a daily practice an way of life. When undertaken much sorrow, fear and loneliness evaporates. It is based upon Naikan Therapy, which is described.
  • The Secrets To Healing From Within
    Modern medicine is based upon the notion of battle, we battle germs and fight for life. But there is another way to approach disease - this way leads to healing from within. It awakens our deeper understanding and healing force. This article describes the nature of healing from within, how it works and the different effects it has. Exercises are included.
  • The Simple Truths About Falling and Living in Love
    We are meant to live a life of love. When we're not in love, something's the matter. Unfortunately, most of us have become resigned to sadness, struggle and disappointment in our relationships. This article explores what it is that keeps love from us, and offers simple, effective and powerful steps on how to turn it around.
  • Top Communication Problems And How To Solve Them
    Without effective communication, no relationship stands a chance. Although we "communicate" all day long, most of our communication goes unheard. In order to remedy this, we must understand the 5 top communication problems, the different reasons why people communicate and the effect it has. We must also learn the secrets of listening and really hearing what it being said.
  • Why Anger Arises In The Family: And How To Let It Go
    Anger in the family is one of main causes of difficult relationships and troubles of all kinds. It is extremely important to understand why this arises, how it manifests and what to do to stop it. This article explores anger in the family, offering many insights into its origin and suggestions about letting it go.
  • Why Men Are Afraid of Commitment (And How To Help)
    After a relationship ends, women ask what went wrong, again and again. In this revealing article we see that often it has nothing to do with the woman. The article explores some patterns and needs that cause men to run from relationships. It also offers specific guidelines and advice to help. Women will learn about male psychology and men will be better able to understand themselves.
  • Why Men Leave (The Fantasy Relationship)
    Some men never say good-bye to one woman without having a few more in the wings. This article explores one of the reasons men leave relationship, because they're involved with fantasy loves. Some believe they don't have what it takes to keep a woman happy, and instead build short term fantasy loves that give them the illusion that they are wanted and everything is all right. When the fantasy ends, they're out of there.Find out more.
  • Why We Choose Anger (And How To Take Another Road)
    Anger had turned into an epidemic these days. Few realize that anger is a choice we make and that it is fairly easy to take another road. This article explores the reasons why we choose anger, the consequences that choice has, and offers specific guidance on how to make a different choice.
  • Zen Steps to Calming Down Easily
    It's easy to calm down quickly. Though most do not realize it negative emotions can become addictive so it is very important to learn how to let them go. This article offers some enjoyable steps to calm down, based upon Zen practice and principles. Once we try them, our life quickly turns around.
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