Addiction is a serious issue in society. Addiction tears apart families and destroys relationships. Knowing that one is addicted is the first step to recovery.
It is usually very self apparent if one is addicted, but there are questions and measurements to evaluate if one is addicted. Substance Abuse Counselors can go through a series of questions to determine if someone is addicted.
There are many questions to determine an addiction problem. Please also review AIHCP’s Substance Abuse Counseling Certification Program
The article, “How Addiction Is Diagnosed” by Chrystine Wagner takes a closer look at addiction and what the dictates if one is addicted. She states,
“Since addiction is often a self-diagnosed condition, recognizing or deciding you may be struggling with an addiction is often one of the biggest challenges in recovery. Everyone who has an addiction comes to that recognition in different ways. Questions to ask yourself if you think you may have an addiction include…”
The most common elements are over indulgence and the inability to stop. Other factors to consider include loss of time for other things, broken relationships, loss wages and jobs, and excessive time and spending on the habit.
To learn more about addiction, please review AIHCP’s Substance Abuse Counseling Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in Substance Abuse Counseling.
A restless mind can prevent focus as well as sleep. ADHD has the ability to disrupt a person’s train of thought and focus on one thing at a time. Anxiety and sleepless nights can be the result. Knowing how to calm the mind and cope with the symptoms of ADHD is critically important in finding peace.
Calming the restless mind can be a difficult thing with ADHD. Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification
The article, “9 Calming Strategies for a Racing, Restless Mind” by Kate Moryoussef looks closer at how to calm the ADHD mind. She states,
Guard your headspace, and pay attention to where you’re focusing your mental energy; set clear boundaries for emotional wellbeing. When we’re not intentionally choosing the right thoughts, the negativity can quickly become our reality and we begin attracting relatable scenarios to match what we’re energetically absorbing. Try this EFT tapping video to help you overcome your anxious thinking and ruminating.
In addition, Meditation, EFT and Hypnosis can all be beneficial alternative practices to help calm the restless mind. AIHCP offers certifications in all these specialty fields.
Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in ADHD Consulting.
During grief, multiple emotions can emerge. Anger, sadness and even guilt. Guilt especially can be a harmful emotion during grief because it tortures one over the loss of a loved one. Thoughts torture an individual regarding potentially the final days. Did the person do enough, did she say something mean she regrets, or did he not give enough time while the person was alive? These thoughts can torment the soul.
Second guessing oneself in grief and finding guilt can eat at the soul. Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Certification
In addition, some individuals find guilt in things that were beyond their control. The guilt eats away and when they discuss it, they discover the guilt was unfounded. This is especially true with children and magical thinking. In many cases, children may feel responsible for the death of a loved one because they wished it or thought it. Hence guilt can be a true poison in the grieving process and the only way to weed it out is to discuss it and share it with others.
Another type of guilt in loss is survivor guilt. When experiencing a traumatic event, the survivor sometimes may feel guilty they survived or feel guilty they did not do enough to save others. In reality, there should be no guilt, but the guilt still haunts them.
The article, “Grief and Guilt: ‘I can’t believe I did that’ edition” from “Whats Your Grief” takes a closer look at guilt and grief. The article states,
“When it comes to grief and guilt, these ‘if-then’ thoughts often come up around the thing we did or didn’t do. We think if something had been different, the outcome would have been better. It is easy to imagine that the alternate reality would be the perfect outcome we wish for, instead of the reality we’re living. We look back and think things like:”
The article lists numerous what if scenarios of what if, but then looks at why we do certain things in different situations. Stress response of fight or flight and our various crisis responses provoke different responses. So in reality, we respond in a given situation and are programmed to do so. Yet, in grief, we still look back with guilt, why we did not go to the funeral, or why we did not fight longer with treatments for our loved one, or wish we would have done that one little thing to change an outcome.
We as temporal beings cannot know the final end or whether an alternate ending is any better. In fact, the same ending may have occurred regardless and we can merely torture ourselves over and over in the mind.
We need to accept the past, shed guilt and realize our mind reacts to stress and crisis differently and we cannot return to that moment. What we can hold tightly to is we do what we feel is best at that moment and that we cherish and love our loved one. Our loved ones do not wish us to torture ourselves after their death. They want us to grieve healthy and not find guilt in their death but eventual acceptance.
If of a religious mind, we know they are in a better place and will one day reunite with us. In the meantime, holding on to guilt and other toxic emotion is unhealthy whether religious or not. The memory of the person lives on in us and they would never wish for us to hold on to unfounded guilt.
Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and the training for qualified professionals leads to a four year certification in Grief Counseling.
PTSD is a severe reaction to trauma. It haunts millions, especially veterans who have witnessed war at its worst. Transcendental Meditation may be able to help individuals relax and process the trauma in more productive ways. It has the possibility to heal the mind and soul through the process.
PTSD is a serious condition due to severe past trauma. Please also review AIHCP’s Meditation Instructor Program
The article, “Could transcendental meditation treat PTSD?” from MedicalNewsToday takes a closer look at how Transcendental Meditation can help veterans with PTSD. The article states,
“A common plot device in fiction finds a character overcoming past traumatic experiences by finally confronting their pain. In real life, recovery is not so simple. While therapies for people with PTSD typically focus on facing one’s trauma, a new study finds that the restful effects of TM may more readily help people with PTSD heal.”
Please also review AIHCP’s Meditation Instructor Program and see if it meets your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification as a Meditation Instructor
ADHD does not discriminate. Individuals with very high IQs are also victims of ADHD. When these things collide, individuals need to learn how to cope with ADHD display the disorder in different ways. Sometimes, due to the higher intelligence, children with higher IQs and ADHD may go undiagnosed but there are signs to look for.
Some children may be hard to diagnose with ADHD due to higher IQ. Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification
The article, “When High IQ and ADHD Collide” by Mary Beth Richie looks closer at ADHD and how it manifests with children of higher IQ. She states,
“Misdiagnosis is not uncommon when high IQ and ADHD collide. Very bright children who are also highly active are sometimes misdiagnosed with ADHD. On the other hand, some highly intelligent children with ADHD can focus on things that interest them for an extended period of time, which can lead to misdiagnosis as well. The result is that these children often don’t receive the treatment they need.”
Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification and see if it meets your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four certification as an ADHD Consultant.
Stress causes multiple problems to the body due to the stress response. In such a tense state, it can also affect over time one’s waist line and add to gaining weight. Weight gain is directly correlated with chronic stress.
Stress can negatively affect one’s weight. Please also review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Program and see if it meets your professional goals
The article, “Surprising Side Effects Stress Has On Your Waistline, Say Experts” by Perri Blumberg looks closer at how stress can affect weight gain. She states,
“As Ivanir further elaborates, stress can lead to weight gain via a hormone called cortisol. “When under stress, the adrenal glands produce cortisol, which leads to a surge of energy by stimulating fat, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism,” she explains. “However, cortisol also increases appetite and cravings for sweet, fatty, and salty foods. With chronic stress, this overexposure to cortisol can lead to weight gain,” she adds, further noting that cortisol secretion also promotes abdominal fat accumulation.”
Reducing stress is imperative to overall health and as one can see, stress affects almost every aspect of our life. It is important to manage it in order to live a healthy and productive life.
Please also review AIHCP’s Stress Management Consulting Program and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in Stress Management Consulting.
Exercise is always portrayed in a healthy light but some types of exercises in extremity or frequency can be bad for certain individuals. Knowing what exercise is best for an individual is key to a healthy workout that is keyed into an individual’s needs. Healthcare life coaches can help individuals find the best exercise routine needed.
What is the best intensity workout for you? Please also review AIHCP’s Healthcare Life Coaching Program
The article, “Too Much High-Intensity Exercise May Be Bad for Your Health” by Gretchen Reynolds looks at how for some, high intensity exercise can be counter productive. She states,
“If high-intensity exercise is good for us, is more necessarily better? Maybe not, according to an admonitory new study of the molecular effects of high-intensity interval training, also known as HIIT. In the study, people who began working out strenuously almost every day developed sudden and severe declines in the function of their mitochondria, which are the energy powerhouses inside of cells, along with incipient signs of blood sugar dysfunction.”
Please also review AIHCP’s Healthcare Life Coach Program and see if it matches your professional and academic needs and goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification as a Healthcare Life Coach
ADHD when undiagnosed can lead to multiple issues in adult relationships. Partners may never know why a spouse or significant other behaves a certain way. The ADHD may cause outbursts, spending sprees, or even rude comments. This can lead to broken relationships when not understood why. This is why it is so important to to identify ADHD as the culprit and to find the coping or medication needed to reduce the destructive symptoms in the relationship.
Relationships can suffer from undiagnosed ADHD. Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification
The article, “What to expect from ADHD in relationships” from MedicalNewsToday looks at the problems that can arise from ADHD in relationships but also some of the benefits. The article states,
“Depending on the person and the relationship, familiar ADHD-related difficulties may be present or new ones may arise. However, a person with ADHD and their partner can use a range of strategies to work around these challenges. Also, many characteristics of ADHD can be strengths in a relationship. Below, we explore the challenges, techniques that help, and possible benefits of having a partner with ADHD.”
Please also review AIHCP’s ADHD Consulting Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four certification in ADHD Consulting.
Hypnosis is beyond a Las Vegas stage show but in reality is a science based on how the mind and subconscious works. Hypnosis when properly employed does not put some under a mind spell but helps individuals face issues at the subconscious level. Whether dealing with past trauma or facing an addiction or fear, hypnotherapy under a trained and qualified professional can be an alternative therapy that can help many people.
There is a science that supports the use of clinical hypnotherapy. Please also review AIHCP’s Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification
The article, “Is Hypnosis Real?” by Markham Reid reviews the science behind hypnosis. He states,
“Once you’ve entered this hypnotized state — during which you’re still conscious, by the way — the person administering your hypnotherapy will suggest new ways of thinking about or engaging with the situation that’s giving you trouble. “The suggestions are different every time because people have different reasons or triggers for what they experience,” Kittle told me. For example, someone trying to overcome a phobia will require different suggestions than someone trying to quit smoking”
Please also review AIHCP’s College of Hypnotherapy’s Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four year certification in Hypnotherapy
Basic loss can be dealt with through coping and proceeding through the grieving process. However, sometimes, grief can become complicated or more intense and require deeper aid and assistance. Grief therapies can help an individual through loss and depression. Grief therapies however are conducted under professional licensed counselors or psychologists. If one is only a certified grief counselor, then they cannot delve into deeper grief pathologies, however, many licensed counselors and psychologists are also certified in grief counseling and may proceed with deeper treatments for deeper pathologies.
Some losses are so intense that the mind and heart do not heal and require deeper grief therapies. Please also review AIHCP’s Grief Counseling Certification
Grief however in itself is not a pathology and these other treatments can help those dealing with basic loss if necessary. Some treatments in themselves involve cognitive responses to grief with reframing the loss or reinterpreting and others deal with deeper treatments in reviewing the loss and emotion. Therapists are able to guide someone through trauma or greater loss. Other therapies also include play therapy and art therapy for children.
The article, “Understanding Therapy for Grief and How It Can Help” from Healthline looks deeper at different grief therapies.
“It can be difficult to quantify or predict the outlook for people dealing with grief, especially since each person manages it in their own way. It’s also challenging to predict if any one treatment may work the best. Grief does not follow one particular path. Healing is unique to each individual, and the outlook for people dealing with grief looks different for each person. A therapist can play a key role in supporting the healing process by facilitating counseling sessions based on your situation.”
Again, certain therapies can only be conducted by different levels of training. Grief Counselors can usually deal with basic grief, but as grief becomes pathological or more deep therapy is needed, then higher trained professional are needed to help one through the loss. Identifying complicated grief is key.
Please also review The American Academy of Grief Counseling and its Grief Counseling Certification and see if it it matches your academic and professional goals. The program is online and independent study and open to qualified professionals seeking a four certification as a grief counselor.
