by Dr. Paula Joyce | Aug 30, 2016 | Emotional Health, Mental Health, Relationships
We all grow up with fears, feelings of not being good enough and insecurities. Now add being told by your family, society and your religion that there is something innately wrong with you, that you need to be fixed, that there is no room in heaven for you and top if...
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 | 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...
by Dr. Paula Joyce | May 25, 2015 | Emotional Health, Mental Health, Relationships
Admit the Truth Awareness is the beginning of change. If we don’t recognize what has happened or is happening in our lives, we can’t create the joy and peace that we want. Mean Girls We all have a way of protecting ourselves from the truth because we think it’s too...
by Dr. Paula Joyce | Apr 11, 2011 | Emotional Health, Relationships
Last year I was a facilitator for The National Domestic Violence Hotline’s Decade for Change Summit. I became aware of the strong role that many businesses are assuming in educating employees and assisting victims in the workplace. The annual cost of lost productivity...