by Teresa Marie Walters | Dec 8, 2022 | Alternative Mental Health Model, Christian Faith, Emotional Health, Family Systems, Healthy Living, Relational Health, Spirituality
It’s an iconic scene. A sad and emotionally distressed Charlie Brown seeks psychiatric advice from Lucy, and Lucy, as any reasonable professional would, sets about trying to find a label to adequately categorize his symptoms. After running through a number of possible...
by Teresa Marie Walters | Feb 18, 2022 | Christian Faith, Emotional Health, Healthy Living, Spirituality
Not too many years past, a marketing campaign proclaimed, “You are what you eat.” The premise being that the food choices we make have a profound impact on our physical bodies and dictate to a large extent the quality of our health and well-being. I...
by Teresa Marie Walters | Dec 19, 2020 | Emotional Health, Healthy Living, Relational Health
I’m just old enough to remember a time when an attempt to manage the life of another was likely to be met with a resounding…mind your own business! People didn’t take kindly to others freely, or intrusively, offering their opinion about what they should or should not...
by Teresa Marie Walters | Apr 18, 2020 | Christian Faith, Family Systems, Healthy Living, Relational Health, Strong Families
The intact family unit is under attack. As more and more couples succumb to the pressures of modern society and cultural correctness, the traditional family system is systemically being redefined and restructured. Harried lifestyles and shifts in basic value...
by Teresa Marie Walters | Mar 27, 2020 | Alternative Mental Health Model, Emotional Health, Healthy Living
If you’ve been feeling a little anxious in the midst of the current state of affairs, you might take comfort in knowing that you are having a very normal reaction to an abnormal set of circumstances. It is completely normal to experience a wide range of emotional...
by Teresa Marie Walters | Mar 16, 2020 | Emotional Health, Healthy Living, Relational Health
There seems to be an ongoing effort in this country to pathologize just about every reaction, response, distress or experience to which a human being can be exposed. If I hadn’t read it myself, I would have thought the article I recently reviewed about the development...