How to Help an Alcoholic Stop Drinking
First of all, this is actually impossible. Unless YOU are the alcoholic, you can't stop an alcoholic from drinking. Alcoholism is its own demon that can't be fought from the outside. What you can do is...
View ArticleHow to Comfort a Grieving Pet Owner
Losing a pet can be completely devastating for both adults and children. Pets can become our best friends and allies against the entire world. Pets inevitably pass away long before we are ready to let...
View ArticleHow to Cope With a Terminally Ill Family Member
The terminal illness of a loved one is usually very hard to deal with emotionally and in alot of cases financially. This article discusses ways on how to deal with a terminally ill family member.
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How to Help a Loved One With Alcohol Problems
Alcoholism affects thousands of families each year. By the time you finish reading this, someone will have died from an alcohol related accident. Learn how to help a loved one with alcohol problems.
View ArticleHow to Deal With a Child's Suicide
There are many challenges you'll face as a parent, but the death of a child by suicide will be the most devastating. And unfortunately it's not as rare a circumstance as it should be: According to the...
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How to Create a Picture Memorial
Losing a loved one is a very hard thing to deal with. Creating a Picture Memorial is something that will help you remember all of the good times you and your family shared with him. Using your own...
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How to Adopt a Father
I once heard a radio story about a woman who--having been estranged from her family for most of her adult life--decided to adopt a new family. She placed an ad in her local newspaper, and, to make a...
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How to Spot Emotional Abuse
Abuse is a cruel act where the person in control belittles another person by forcibly dominating and restraining feelings and thoughts, imposing threats, utterance of insulting language and bitter...
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How to Deal With Emotional Affairs
While extremely damaging to a relationship, physical affairs are fleeting and often cause much less devastation than emotional affairs. An emotional affair means that your significant other is attached...
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How to Live After Someone You Love Has Died
Someone that means the world to you is gone. It may have been a car accident, a battle lost to cancer or an act of violence, but the end is the same--you are left behind to carry on after a tragic...
View ArticleHow to Get Past Hating An Alcoholic in Your Life
It can be more than heart-wrenching having to deal with an alcoholic relative or good friend, watching them abuse alcohol only to bring sadness, shame, financial hardship to close friends, family and...
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How to Confront a Teen that's Using Drugs
Your bright-eyed, ambitious teen went to glassy-eyed and lethargic seemingly overnight. He also happens to be eating a lot of munchies-or not eating anything at all. His pupils are always dilated, he...
View ArticleHow to Protect Yourself In A Lightning And Thunderstorm
During a weather storm your chances of being struck by lightning are slim, but lightning does not need to strike directly to cause injury or death. Learn how to keep safe during a lightning and thunder...
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How to Cope With the Loss of a Child
Every parent's worst fear is to having to bury her own child. Losing a child is never easy, and it is something you will never get over. Reading this article will help you cope with the loss of your...
View ArticleHow to Live After the Death of a Spouse
When your spouse dies, you hear the same thoughtful advice about letting yourself mourn and taking time to accept the loss. But there are other things you think about once the initial grieving period...
View ArticleHow to Help a Teenage Mother Prepare for Baby
Despite the availability of birth control, safe sex education and abstinence programs, teenagers continue to have sex and get pregnant. Although teenage pregnancy rates wax and wane, on some level...
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How to Tell Parents You Smashed the Car
Obtaining your driver's license and earning the privilege of borrowing the family car is a major milestone for most teens. Although many teen drivers may never have to break the news of a car wreck to...
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How to Deal With a Parent's Death
No matter what your age, the loss of a parent can weigh heavy on the heart. After all, for many people, parents are a significant and constant source of support, love and encouragement. The loss of a...
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How to Survive Being Kicked Out of Your Home
At times, a crisis in the home reaches the point of no return, and one or more of the offending parties is asked to leave. This is a sign that the situation at home is extremely serious -- clearly, the...
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How to Cope When a Loved One Is in a Coma
Watching a loved one in a coma can be difficult and frightening, and when this condition persists for some time, it can wear down your physical, mental and emotional energy reserves. While you cannot...
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How to Find Assistance for Food and Bills
Whether you are a single parent, recently lost your job or can't make ends meet with what you do earn, you are not alone. Local, state and federal assistance is available to many people, although...
View ArticleHow to Cope With a Dying Person
Death is an inevitable experience that most people do not race towards. However, if you understand the dying process, you can better prepare yourself to cope with a dying person. If a close friend or...
View ArticleHow to Report a Death to the Police
It looks simple enough when we see it on TV detective dramas. In real life though, reporting the death of a loved one, friend, or even a perfect stranger, to the police is likely to be traumatic and...
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How to start an argument
Many people are already experts in starting arguments. I just want to show you ways you haven't thought of before. Since starting an argument happens all the time I am assuming most of you are already...
View ArticleHow to comfort your best friend when he or she is dumped
We all have well meaning friends that just don't know when to keep their mouths shut. They always manage to say the wrong thing and we are left feeling less worthy or worse yet we feel stupid and like...
View ArticleAbout Returning to Work After a Miscarriage
Returning to work after having a miscarriage, no matter how far along you were, can be a stressful experience. Take care of yourself first, whether that involves taking some time off work, waiting to...
View ArticleFacts on Losing a Loved One
Losing a loved one is a difficult and tragic situation to deal with. Whether the death results from a long illness or is sudden and unexpected, it can be very hard for family and friends to cope with...
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How to Act When Someone You Know Loses a Loved One
Losing a loved one is an incredibly difficult time in any person's life; it is difficult even for friends of the survivor. When someone you know has lost a loved one, you may be unsure what to say or...
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How to Comfort a Friend Whose Child Has Died
Few things in life are more devastating for a parent than losing a child. Your heart aches for your friend, but you might not be sure how to most effectively comfort him. He's understandably going...
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How to Keep Kids Out of Trouble
Keeping kids out of trouble can be difficult, especially when they become teenagers. This article will list tips on how to keep kids out of trouble.
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How to Support Someone With Cancer
If you have a friend or family member diagnosed with cancer, your support can make a significant difference in their ability to cope and recover. While not all cancer patients survive, you want to deal...
View ArticleHow to Deal With a Mental Illness in the Family
According to the National Alliance for the Mentally ill, or NAMI, 450 million people worldwide suffer from mental illnesses. Many of those who suffer from mental illnesses also deal with...
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How to Identify Signs of An Abusive Relationship
There are millions of woman involved in abusive relationships throughout the world. Sadly many women continue to remain in these abusive relationships, despite the warning signs. More often than not,...
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Emotional Effects of Children in Foster Care
According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, over 500,000 children are living in foster care situations. This number increases all the time. It is a hugely rewarding yet...
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How to Start a Group Home for Teens
Group homes serve many purposes--from monitoring a troubled teen’s day-to-day activities to offering peer support in a residential therapeutic setting that allows children to reset their moral...
View ArticleTypes of Intervention Groups
For many, an intervention can be a last resort. Too often, family members or friends can fall victim to undesirable behavior that can range from drinking and drug abuse to computer or video game...
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How to Write Heartfelt Sympathy Messages
It's frustrating when you feel no words can adequately express the depth of your sympathy. Your efforts are further complicated by fear that you might say something wrong. Fortunately, you do not need...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Kids Back From CPS
Child Protective Services, or CPS, is a governmental organization that investigates reports of suspected child abuse or neglect. It works with police officers to remove children from homes where it...
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How to Overcome Challenges in Your Life
We all face tough and difficult challenges in life. Some become difficult to overcome, especially when the odds are stacked against us. Going against all odds, is something we're capable of doing. To...
View ArticleHow to Evict a Domestic Partner
There are some unfortunate situations that occur when two domestic partners (usually refers to two unmarried people) need to part ways. It is even more troublesome when one partner refuses to leave....
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How to Know Whether to Trust Someone
I wrote an article on how to gain a persons trust, now how do YOU learn to trust again. So you've been let down by others in the past, and this has hurt you deeply? A lot of what applies to gaining a...
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How to Conduct a Family Intervention
Every family has its own dynamic; this will greatly depend upon the individual personalities and character of each member within it. When one member of a family is facing a particularly damaging and/or...
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How to Apply Online for Arizona Food Stamps
The state of Arizona distributes food stamps through its Department of Economic Security division. Online applications are encouraged so people can avoid spending more time than necessary at a DES...
View ArticleSolution-Focused Family Therapy
Solution-focused family therapy (SFFT) is not traditional therapy, which focuses on what is "wrong" with the client family. SFFT works to help the family identify its strengths and to reach a concrete...
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How to Overcome the death of a loved one
Dealing with the death of a loved one can be extremely hard. However everyone has to face this excruciating time at one point in their lives. The circle of life may not necessarily play in your favor...
View ArticleHow to Receive Phone Calls From Inmates
if you have a love one incarcerated it can be a stress full time. here's a guide to help keep communications lines going
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How to Survive Losing Your Father
This article is dedicated to my Dad, who passed away August 3, 2009 of prostate cancer. My Dad meant the world to me and I am still coping with his loss. These are the things that have given me...
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How to Improve a Mother Daughter Relationship
A mother and daughter relationship is not always easy to acquire. There are moments where your anger and frustration can get in the way of understanding and respecting each other. Don't let your...
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