Getting Back On Track With Your Goals: How To End 2022 With A Bang!

Getting Back On Track With Your Goals: How To End 2022 With A Bang!

Blog, Motivation, Tips
We are approaching the end of 2022 rather quickly; however, it is not too late to get back on track with your goals. If you are looking to end your 2022 with a bang, then do these 5 steps to get you closer to achieving your goals: Don’t dwell on what you could have accomplished It is easy to ruminate over what you could have accomplished during the year but did not. Understand that you will fall short at some point in your life and that is OK. However, the way you respond to the setback is the determinant on how successful you will be. Learn from your past mistakes and move forward with your goals.  Adjust your previous goals to fit your current reality  If a significant amount of…
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The best kept secrets to your best life are often overlooked

The best kept secrets to your best life are often overlooked

Health, Therapy, Tips
  When it comes to living our best lives, there are countless universal guides that focus on goal setting, self-motivation, work-life balance, etc. While they are important part of the journey, these pointers speak of what we can do to move forward after the foundation has been established. The truth is, the pillars to living our best lives are much simpler but very often overlooked. At Therapeutic Center for Hope, we spend a lot of time looking at the link between people's habits, lifestyle, stress, and health and what we found is that a lot of people are held back by misconceptions about what living their best lives look like. Often depending on willpower alone to make things happen. As important as willpower is, it is far more beneficial to…
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Overcoming Obstacles

Overcoming Obstacles

Blog, Health, Motivation, Therapy, Tips
Life can become difficult! One moment you are having a great life and thinking “Wow, life is going great!” Then the next thing you now it’s like a great big dark cloud overshadows all the positive things that have happened in your life. However, it’s important to not let those negative moments bring you down or lead you to believe that life will not get better. There are times in our lives where we must experience downfalls. Those dark moments can either break you or make you stronger. It’s important though that you don’t let them break you. Remember to stay positive through all the negative moments you may experience. I know, it can be hard to do, especially if things are really bad, but try not to let it…
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Keeping Your Relationship Fresh as Busy Professionals

Keeping Your Relationship Fresh as Busy Professionals

Blog, Health, Motivation, Relationship
Relationships can be difficult in managing as an adult with a thriving career. Finding someone is hard enough, but once you found your special someone keeping your relationship lively and making time for each can prove to also become challenging. Especially when the both of you have your own careers, personal goals, and sometimes even individual issues. As for any relationship, there has to be a solid foundation of excellent communication. Too often we all can sometimes underestimate the power of having mutual communication and verbalizing what we want in the relationship with our partner. When you feel as though your relationship is lacking it’s important that you get through your fear of confronting the issues. The fear will only prevent you from surpassing the issues at hand and not…
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Struggling with an Eating Disorder

Struggling with an Eating Disorder

Blog, Health, Motivation, Therapy
Almost 30 million people of all ages and genders struggle with an eating disorder in the United States, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorder website.  Although anyone can be affected and struggle with an eating disorder, women are the most associated with eating disorders. With advertisements, the media, and society implementing the idea that women and girls should be skinny and outrageously attractive at a very young age it’s no surprise that women are more vulnerable to struggling with an eating disorder.   There are a lot of different kinds of eating disorders. The most common forms of eating disorders include Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating. Some eating disorders limit the amount of food intake from a person's diet and others increase the amount of…
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LGBTQ Couples and Adoption

LGBTQ Couples and Adoption

Adoption, Blog, Motivation, Parenting, Therapy, Tips
Children can bring couples many delightful memories. They can also help the couple feel like a true and complete family. However, we must acknowledge that couples are no longer only men and women, but there are plenty of openly same sex couples who would also like to have a complete family of their own. Many LGBTQ couples want the same opportunities to adopt and have a family just as heterosexual couples. However, the route to completing their families through adoption can be extremely difficult. It can be especially difficult if the state they live in has strict laws on LGBTQ couples adopting and what state or country they are deciding to adopt their child from. Since 2010, in the Sunshine State, the ban on gay and lesbian adoption was ruled…
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Surrogacy as an Option

Surrogacy as an Option

Adoption, Blog, Motivation, Parenting, Therapy
The joys of starting a family can be challenging for some. However, there are several options that can help your dreams of having a family become reality. There are various options that you can choose from to start a family like adoption, traditional surrogacy, and gestational surrogacy. Although adoption is one of the most common routes for couples who would like to start a family, surrogacy is also a common option. The process of surrogacy depends on the type of surrogacy. As mentioned there are two primary types of surrogacy, traditional and gestational. Traditional surrogacy is when the surrogate carries the embryo and is the donor of the egg, making her the biological mother. In this case, the surrogate will be impregnated with sperm from the intended father, who will…
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Go on a Vacation, You Won’t Regret It!

Go on a Vacation, You Won’t Regret It!

Blog, Health, Motivation, Tips
A couple months left until summer will officially be over! With that in mind have you taken a few days off to enjoy the summer sun?  There’s not much time left if you haven’t gone on a vacation, yet. Maybe you’re thinking who needs a vacation! Or I don’t have any money! Of course, there are million more excuses we tell ourselves, but we should really stop and go on that vacation. When given the chance to relax and go on a vacation you should take it! Everybody needs to take the time to relax and escape for a few days. It also creates wonderful memories and experiences that you’ll be able to look back on with joy and appreciation. Typically, when someone mentions a vacation, most think of the…
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Living a Stress-Free Life

Living a Stress-Free Life

Blog, Health, Motivation, Tips
A guide to living a stress-free life We are finally well into the month of July! It’s hard to believe that the year is already half way gone. With that said, some of you may be stressing over all the things you have yet to do. If this sounds all too familiar, stop stressing. You’re not doing yourself any good by worrying. If anything, it could be stressing you out even more. Instead of feeling like you haven’t done anything, you should take it as an opportunity to see what you can do from now to live a positive and stress-free life. Although it may be a bit difficult to begin, it will be worth it once you figure out what works for you. If you feel that your stress…
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Celebrating Your Beauty Even when You Don’t Feel It

Celebrating Your Beauty Even when You Don’t Feel It

Blog, Health, Motivation, Therapy
Everyone is uniquely beautiful on their own way, but it is hard to feel beautiful all the time. With the hustle and bustle of life, we sometimes forget to make time to appreciate how great and beautiful we are and our life is. Forgetting your beauty can be taxing mentally and emotionally, as we tend to get down on ourselves when we feel like we are not living up to our expectations. We know that beauty looks different for everybody, but here are some universal ways to integrate beauty into your life so that you can remember and appreciate it – even on days when you simply are not feeling it. Smile. It sounds cheesy, but research has proven that the act of smiling can actually make you feel happier.…
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