This invaluable guide is designed to help parents raise children who are able to handle their emotions, cope with stress, and take on new challenges. It also provides information about common problems, such as eating disorders and anxiety , aiding parents in recognizing troublesome symptoms and deciding when professional help is necessary. Visit Emotional Health . Help Your Daughter Create a Healthy Body Image . Well-intentioned resolutions will fall flat in the face of stiff restraining forces without character and social reinforcements.
Every individual struggles to gain and maintain alignment with core values, ethics and principles.
Whatever our professed personal beliefs, we all face restraining forces, opposition and challenges, and these sometimes cause us to do things that are contrary to our stated missions, intentions and resolutions. We may think that we can change deeply imbedded habits and patterns simply by making new resolutions or goals only to find that old habits die hard and that in spite of good intentions and social promises, familiar patterns carry over from year to year. Hence, our habits become our identity , and to resolve to change a habit is to threaten our security. We fail to see that we are not our habits. We can make and break our habits.