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Welcome to choosingchange

Offering specialised help...

Carefully prepared strategies for helping you to deal with issues arising in today's frantic and sometimes disturbing world.

There are many things to consider to improve your well being, including —

• anxiety reduction
• assertiveness training
• clear communication education
• compassionate consideration
• depression and depressed feelings
• drug/alcohol dependence/abuse
• family dynamics
• internet/pornography addiction
• addictions/compulsions
• relationships, intimacy
• same sex relationship issues
• self-confidence and self-esteem
• separation and divorce
• sexuality and sensuality
• transitions (life, work, relationships)
• trust issues

Four areas to consider important can be identified as—

1. Establish and maintain Enduring Relationships.
   
   Maintaining relationships is often seen as something to consider only when things go wrong. And it is true, when trouble occurs you can actively make changes that will turn your relationship around.

• However, a proactive stand may be more effective.
• choosingchange offers you this chance to see if you can find ways to help.

2. Manage Depression and depressed feelings.
   
   Although it is normal to sometime feel sad and down, prolonged episodes of feeling depressed may need some attention from you and possibly a doctor or a counsellor.
   
   
   • Professional advice can point you to resources to better understand what is happening.
   • Strategies to help you manage your sadness or depressed feelings.
   • Maybe there are god reasons for feeling low. identifying the differnece between normal and unusual depressed feelings is a key to managing how you feel.
     
     
3. Being Assertive without being aggressive can depend on many things, including how you were raised and educated.
   
   Many people confuse assertiveness with being aggressive. some people are confused between assertiveness, being aggressive and being passive aggressive.
   
   
• An assertive person feels OK about him or her self.
• Confidence under all circumstances marks an assertive person.
• Respect for self and others also makes an assertive person
  
  
4. Building Self-esteem is important for having good relationships, feeling good about yourself and dealing with difficult circumstances.

• Feelings about yourself and your worth influence your self-esteem.
• Your low or high self-esteem can influence you all you life... it may be inherited or learned.
• Good self-esteem is vital for healthy relationships and helpful when things are tough, when things go wrong.
• A strong sense of self is the core of getting what you want out of life.

      

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