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6 Ways Grief Can Make You Wonder If You’ll Ever Be OK

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:32:10 +0000

With the holidays and early winter being statistically the most popular season to die, late winter can be a time of grief for many survivors left to face life without a loved one – an experience that can feel overwhelming, destabilizing, and confusing. We all know that it is normal to feel sad for a…

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Huffington Post – 7 Crucial Questions To Ask Yourself (And Your S.O.) Before Marrying

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:05:24 +0000

Couples thinking about marriage can often feel unsure about how to know if their relationship is strong enough to withstand the test of marriage. Knowing what to ask each other can be an important step in sorting through whether you are truly, long-lastingly compatible. Huffington Post asked me to weigh in on the big conversations and crucial…

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Yahoo Health – The Internet is Freaking Out Over Her Body Positive Selfie

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 05:07:46 +0000

Body image is a sensitive topic, especially this time of year when we can all be a little harder on ourselves after the holidays. This is part of why it can be so refreshing to see people, and especially public figures, demonstrate body confidence – even if it’s provocative. Seeing others’ self acceptance challenges and…

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Dealing With Difficult People: Prepare for the Worst, and Hope for the Best.

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 08:23:51 +0000

Dealing with difficult people – be they family members or coworkers – isn’t always easy, and can bring up a variety of painful feelings and challenging behavioral patterns. Add a bit of stress, close proximity, or an important transition, and you have a recipe for the kind of painful interpersonal dynamics that can ruin your…

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Deciding on the perfect gift? Choose experiences says science…

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:31:13 +0000

Experiences, rather than things, make us happier. Trying to decide on the perfect gift? ‘Tis the season for buying presents, but science says spending money on experiences will make you happier. Here’s widely shared great post that lays out the why we might consider spending money on experiences, rather than things, this season. Managing exhaustion is critical to finding joy…

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10 Things Insanely Attractive Women Do For Themselves Without Fail – YourTango

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 19:01:08 +0000

Here’s the secret THEY know that you don’t … What’s the secret of true and lasting attractiveness? That’s what so many women (and men) want to know. It turns out that self-care has a great deal to do with it … but not in the way you might think. When different studies looked at the various qualities of attractiveness, “happiness” and “kindness”…

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8 Ways To Dial Down the Scary and Manage Halloween Anxiety for Sensitive Kids

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 16:57:55 +0000

Parenting anxious kids is hard enough without needing to worry about their future development of phobias, and yet Halloween’s focus on scary icons like ghosts, zombies, and spiders may just be the waiting catalyst for an anxious child to develop a lifetime of personal fears. Managing Halloween anxiety is a key part of taking care…

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3 Quick and Powerful Steps to Hold It Together and Control Your Anger – World Mental Health Day

Alicia H. Clark, PsyD — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 17:41:02 +0000

Webster’s defines irritability as, “a quick excitability to annoyance, impatience, or anger.” Irritability and anger can be a surprisingly common experience of life, but also an uncomfortable and destructive force in our lives and especially in those of our loved ones. It isn’t easy to control your anger, especially when life seems particularly hard. It’s…

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