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Helene Rothschild's Articles in General Self Help

  • Dare To Reach Your Goals
    Are you ready to enjoy a loving relationship, a successful career, a healthy and trim body, and prosperity? Learn about the 7 major fears that may be sabotoging you from reaching your desired goals. Once you identify your blocks, you can overcome them and experience success in every area of your life.
  • Releasing Anger
    Learn why you feel angry and if you are dealing with this human emotion constructively. Then you can feel peaceful, enjoy better relationships, be healthier and happier, and contribute to world peace.
  • The Biggest Mistake Women Make in Relationships
    Jan loved her husband and three children, and had a successful job as a computer programmer. However, her family, her beautiful home, and expensive car were not making her happy. Jan felt guilty for being miserable and complaining to her loyal husband. “After all,” she told me at her first counseling session, “I have more than others, and much more than my parents did. Why am I so depressed?”
  • The Biggest Mistake Men Make in Relationships
    “I don’t understand,” said Don. “My business is going well. I’m a good provider. I give my wife and the children everything they want. We live in a beautiful house and we drive expensive cars. I don’t understand why I seem to do so well at work, but when I come home I feel like a failure!"
  • Dare To Be Prosperous
    Are you having a problem with money? Do you feel as though you never have enough no matter how hard you try? If you want to experience abundance instead of scarcity, you may need to overcome unconscious fears of prosperity. In the course of counseling many people, I have discovered 20 reasons why we struggle with money.
  • All You Need Is HART! Holistic And Rapid Transformation
    You really can create love, joy, and abundance now! You do have what it takes to reach your desired goals. These can also be your success stories.
  • The Power of Positive Thinking: Affirmations
    Our thoughts are magnetic--they draw to us whatever we are thinking. Positive thinking creates positive results. Negative thoughts attract negative experiences and keep us stuck. Many of our fear-based beliefs came from decisions we made from our experiences.
  • Holiday Blues or Joy
    No matter what your life situation is, or how the past holiday seasons were, you can have a wonderful Christmas. As a Marriage, Family and Child Therapist for twenty-six years, I have helped many people transform their holiday blues to joy. The clients had many painful childhood memories of Christmas.
  • 12 Keys to Successful Parenting
    AN OPEN LETTER FROM EVERY CHILD
  • How Do You Hug?
    Learning the art of hugging can improve our relationships and help us feel good and nourished with everyone we embrace. Love and nurturing is free, easy to give and receive and so necessary for our well being.
  • A Degree in Intimacy
    Typical of all the clients, Sally and Fred had made negative decisions about themselves and others during their developmental childhood years. They had their brick walls of protection built way before they even met. Find out how they earned a "Degree in Intimacy".
  • Warrior Vs. Spiritual Warrior
    What a dilemma! We see so much that angers and frighten us. We know that it is not right to abuse anybody or anything. We feel our hearts crying, “It’s supposed to be different!” Deep inside we know how to lovingly treat our brothers and sisters, ourselves, and beautiful mother earth. We know the universal values of honoring and respecting all. We want so much to make it all better. We want to make a difference, but the question is, “How”?
  • 20 Keys to Fantastic Relationships
    Are you feeling frustrated in your relationship? Do you find that no matter how hard you try, there is often disharmony between you and your loved one? Are you ready to have the fantastic relationship that you deserve?
  • “I Love You and I Need Space”
    Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed and want to hide from your loved ones? Are you finding yourself even starting arguments, having an accident, or becoming ill so that you can have some time alone? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a constructive way to have that need met?
  • Helping the Aggressive Child
    Pat sat upright on the couch as she told me about Chuck's angry outbursts, his desire to kill animals, his willingness to follow his destructive friend blindly—even when he knew the behavior was wrong, his hurtful aggression to his younger brother, and the complaint he received from his teacher about his bad attitude in class.
  • Best Insurance Policy For Relationships
    Find out why lovers have affairs and how to prevent them.
  • The Female Dilemma
    What a dilemma. How could I let myself be the strong, capable woman I was, and still be accepted as a female? I looked around my environment and saw many women playing the role of a female that they were taught from the time they could understand. Be weak.
  • The Male Dilemma
    As a boy growing up, did you get any of these messages? Men don’t cry. Boys are sissies if they are afraid. It’s manly to be aggressive. Yelling and verbal abuse are okay—show your lady who’s boss. Don’t dare to be vulnerable or communicate your feelings. If you do relate to some if not all of these beliefs, you have just discovered some reasons why you may be having some problems in your relationships and with your body.
  • The Truth About You
    Why are so many people not fulfilling their potential? What is causing them to be unhappy, and to behave in destructive ways? A therapist tells us the answers and solutions.
  • The Spoiled Child Syndrome
    Were you an only child, or the first or last offspring who received a lot of attention from many family members? Or did you have a professional nanny to take care of you? Did you get everything you wanted whenever you wanted it? Do you believe that everything is coming to you and everyone should put their needs aside for you to be pleased?
  • Are You Listening?
    Read case studies of men and women whose marriages ended because they did not know how to listen. Then learn 18 helpful hints. If you take the time to listen to the people in your life, you can avoid many hardships, and you will be greatly rewarded. Enjoy healthy relationships by hearing others, and of course, by asking others to listen to you. Be able to say yes to the question, “Are you listening?”
  • Three Ways We Make Decisions
    How do you make decisions? Learn about the three ways that can assist you to make the right decisions and avoid a lot of disappointment and pain.
  • The Art of Communication
    Are you tired of having upsets with the people in your life? Do you want to learn the art of communication so that you can experience successful relationships with your family, friends, and the people you work with? Then read the 16 important keys to successful communication.
  • Resentment—The Bite That Holds On
    I told the troubled couple that they were unique but their problems were not. In the course of counseling many couples, I found that the lack of love was rarely the problem. However, hidden resentments caused many bad feelings, and covert or overt conflicts. Find out how to clear your resentments so that you can have the healthy, loving relationship that you deserve.
  • Wedding Ceremony
    Are you thinking about writing a part or all of your marriage ceremony? If you are, you can use the following for your wedding, or for an informal spiritual re-confirmation of your marriage commitment. Just fill your names in and enjoy!
  • Why Men Sabotage Their Relationships
    Do you want a loving partner and you seem to be unsuccessful in reaching your goal? Whether you are in a committed partnership or not, you may be unconsciously sabotaging your efforts. Read the 20 reasons men discovered were the culprits for their lack of success in their relationships, an example, and a positive thought to turn the negative belief into a positive one.
  • Why Women Sabotage Relationships
    Are you feeling frustrated with your relationships? Do you want a loving partner and seem to be unsuccessful in reaching your goal? Read about the 20 unconscious reasons why you may be pushing away the relationship you desire and deserve, an example, and a positive thought to turn the negative belief into a positive one.
  • Win-Win Problem Solving
    Do you feel frustrated because you seem to be struggling with the same nagging issues with yourself and others? Are you ready to solve your problems with win-win solutions?
  • Oh Jesus, Why?
    Are you afraid to be spiritual, to express you wisdom, or to teach what you have learned? Do you feel you are stifling yourself, and being what society and your family want you to be to stay safe? Are you concerned that you will be hurt or killed if you are truly yourself? Read about a fascinating case study and find out one of the possible causes.
  • The Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
    Are you worried about your child? Do you feel your daughter or son is out of control and you do not know what to do? Would you like to find out the common causes of the problems and the solutions?
  • 20 Keys to Parenting Teen-agers
    Would you like some help with parenting your teen-ager? As a Marriage, Family Therapist for 27 years, I noticed that parents were having similar problems with their children during their teen-years. I realized that the children and parents often talked about their frustrations and did not know how to express what they wanted. Read 20 insights and solutions that can assist you to be the succcessful parent you want to be.
  • The Biggest Mistakes Couples Make
    Would you like to know how to improve your loving relationship? Do you want to prevent the pitfalls of intimate partnerships so that you can maintain a long-lasting, healthy relationship? Read about the five biggest mistakes and the solutions that can assist you to reach your goal.
  • 24 Secrets To Happiness
    Are you happy? Would you like to be even happier? You can if you understand what brings true, long-lasting happiness. We all have the ability to create a happy life and we all deserve it. When you focus on the 24 keys to happiness, your life can improve dramatically. It takes two happy people to have a happy relationship.
  • The Biggest Mistakes Bosses and Employees Make
    Are you frustrated with your employees and wonder what you can do to improve their efficiency and reduce your stress? Would you like to be more successful as a boss, manager, etc.? Are you an employee and you want to enjoy working with your superiors, reduce your stress, and be more effective? If you answered yes to any of the above, then read on and learn some important insights and solutions to assist you to reach your goal.
  • Forgiving Mom, Your Best Gift for Mother's Day
    How do you really feel about your Mom? Are you experiencing a deep love and compassion for her? Or do you just feel loyalty and obligation? Are you one of those people who always want to please your Mom? Or are you filled with so much anger and resentment that you avoid them, or rebel by doing the opposite of what they taught you?
  • Yummie Relationships
    Important suggestions from a mini course called "Romantic Relationships 101." The goal is to provide you with important insights and solutions to help you experience the successful loving relationships you desire and deserve.
  • Success Means A Scary Consequence
    Could it be that you are sabotoging your efforts to reach your personal or professional goals because you unconsciously have a fear attached to it? Find out more about this unconscious fear of success and how to overcome it, so that you can experience the success you desrie and deserve.
  • The Biggest Mistakes Children Make
    Would you like to help children avoid the biggest mistakes they make which can hurt their self-esteem, physical and mental health, success in school, sports, etc.? The truth is that you can make a difference in their lives. Children are depending on adults to teach and guide them.
  • How to Identify and Overcome Addictions
    When we are addicted to someone or something, it means we behave like a slave because we allow the person or strong habit to control us. It is what we do in excess in order to avoid our painful feelings (hurt, anger, fear, loneliness, emptiness, etc.). Therefore, addictions are often the symptoms and not the causes of our troubles. Identify your addictions and overcome them so that you can live a happier, healthier life.
  • Fear of the Unknown
    For some reason, we are often afraid of the unknown. We will stay in an unfulfilling home, job, or relationship, because we know how it is. It is familiar. We do not know what will happen if we make a change. One client once said, “I would rather be safe than satisfied.” Can you relate to that?
  • 50 Ways to Nurture Yourself
    It is important to be able to do what you can to feel good on a daily basis. Then you are not dependent on others because you can nurture yourself. When you are self-caring you are not being selfish. In fact when you feel fulfilled, you then have more to give to others. Find out 50 ways you can give to yourself.
  • Forever Young
    Find out how you can be forever young and enjoy a long, fulfilling, healthy life.
  • Seven Keys to a Great Relationship
    Are you ready to create the relationship you desire? When you have the ingredients to a successful partnership, your chances of maintaining a strong, love connection can be increased. Love is not enough.
  • Fear That I Do Not Deserve Success
    Are you striving for personal and professional success and not reaching your goals? Do you feel you deserve success? Could it be that you feel guilty about something you did or did not do that is causing you to feel bad about yourself and sabotage all your efforts?
  • How To Give Help, How To Ask For It
    Giving help is a craft; receiving help, an art. Read important guidelines about how to give and receive help.
  • Nurture Yourself by Giving and Receiving
    Balancing giving and receiving are ways to nurture yourself and reduce your level of stress. Allow yourself to receive and “fill up your basket” so that you can keep giving. Then you can be happier and healthier, and improve your relationships with everyone, including friends, relatives, and your children and loving partner. Read the 34 suggestions of how you can nurture yourself by giving and receiving.
  • Success Does Not Fit My Self-image
    Do you have a successful self-image? Could it be that your old self-image is sabotaging your weight loss, health, career, relationships, or prosperity?
  • 50 Affirmations to Raise Your Self-Esteem
    Are you ready to feel good about yourself? That is the key to health, happiness, fulfilling relationships, and success. Negative thoughts hurt your self-esteem and positive thoughts help you feel good. To raise your self-esteem, say, sing, or write the following 50 affirmations (positive thoughts) until they become part of your automatic thinking.
  • My Golden Years
    Have you noticed that some mature men and women look so old and others of the same age appear much younger? It is true that there are many factors contributing to these differences. However, I believe that we can take charge of our lives and enjoy the golden years as a vital, active, healthy contributing person. Find out how!
  • 30 Ways to Resolve Upsets
    Do you ever get upset? Welcome to the human race! It is very helpful to have some course of action so that you can overcome that negative feeling and feel good again. Unresolved upsets hurt you and the others involved. As a Marriage, Family Therapist, I discovered some very effective ways to assist my clients. The following 30 guidelines for your personal and professional relationships can help you too.

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