by Dr. Paula Joyce | Aug 28, 2015 | Emotional Health
Everyone deserves our empathy, even when, or more accurately, especially when they have harmed us. This is different from forgiveness. Empathy opens up the heart even wider because it is an aspect of love. It allows us to walk in another person’s shoes, to see and...
by Dr. Paula Joyce | Aug 20, 2015 | Mental Health, Relationships
My silver lining story this week is about my experience with the moving company that I hired to move a few pieces of furniture for me. What should have been a very simple hour and a half move became 3 hours because they were not able to turn their truck around on city...
by Dr. Paula Joyce | Aug 17, 2015 | Emotional Health, Mental Health, Relationships
Dr. Paula Presents Overcoming Abuse/Self-Empowerment Are you Ready to Conquer Abuse? 1 out of 4 of us has experienced physical or sexual abuse. This number is even greater when we include verbal abuse. In fact, we all abuse ourselves with thoughts that we are...
by Dr. Paula Joyce | Jul 22, 2015 | Emotional Health, Mental Health, Physical Health
There’s a huge difference between fear and danger. When you’re fully in the present moment, you may experience danger. Fear, however, is worrying about the future. To be able to discern the difference is a powerful step in the process of maturing as a human being. As...
by Dr. Paula Joyce | Jun 18, 2015 | Emotional Health, Physical Health, Relationships
Abuse impacts all of us. Mostly we know about physical and sexual abuse. Although emotional abuse has reached epidemic proportions, most of us have no idea what it is or how to identify it. It’s what I call the Silent Killer. All of the various forms of abuse destroy...