Women Personality and Mental Health

Stress is a part of life and it is certainly unavoidable. Fortunately, it is always possible to avoid the situations that can cause it because you can control the way you should respond to it. How? By knowing your own coping strategies. Make a journal and record your stressful events, your response to each of them, and how you coped. After that, try to make some changes in your life that will help you avoid stressful situations. Here are some ideas to help you:

Time Management
Manage your time and give priority to the things you need to do rather than you want to do. This way you can decide which things are urgent and which can wait. It will make your life easier, less stressful, and more meaningful.

Lifestyle
Your lifestyle determines the way you choose to live, and it will affect your stress level. Try to find a balance between personal, work, and family needs. If there are things that you don’t need to do at all, you better skip it and direct it to other things. You can take more time to give yourself a personal improvement, or give your family some extra attentions. You must have a sense of purpose in life and find meaning through connections with family, friends, jobs, etc. But don’t forget to give yourself a rest whenever you feel like needing it, because your body will recover from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping. Read more!

Domestic violence is not today’s new issue. It has been existed for years, and according to CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey in 2005 “1 of 4 women, in United States are victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives.

So for those who are in abusive situation and ready for a change, please remember that you are not alone. You have many sisters in God and God Himself who love you and willing to help you facing your condition. These are the things you must seek and realize to help you striving in life:

1. Seek Righteousness
Instead of pitying yourself, seek for God and His Righteousness. Through His words you will be helped to stay focus on God’s will, purpose, and plan for your life.

2. Seek God’s Perspective
Please realize that in whatever circumstances you are facing right now, you should not focus to your problem only. Try to look beyond that; problems are always temporal and changing, but what is eternal will never change. Follow the Lord daily, and your obedience will let to deliverance; just like Joshua and the Hebrew army when marching around the city of Jericho day after day. Read more!

Habit is difficult to change, but doesn’t mean impossible. There are 21 steps to help you changing.

Stop punishing yourself
Don’t blame yourself too much for having bad habits. Guilt and shame are bad motivators you need to get rid of. In the other hand, congratulate yourself for being able to acknowledge the need for a change.

Control your mind
Thoughts are the best weapon to change your world. Choose the things you wish to focus to. When negative thoughts said ‘You can never change’, decline it quickly and affirm yourself that you can do it.

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She was born with the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 26 August 1910 in Skopje, Albania. Her father was a full of spirit man who was active in politics. Her mother was a wise lady who had strong character, full of discipline but kind. Agnes was raised in a Rome Catholic family. Her mother brought her children to join morning mass, taught them to pray and help people who are living in hardship. That was ‘the seed’ which grew in Agnes’ heart, that one day she made a radical decision to God, by becoming the bestfriend of the poorest.

By the age of 18 Agnes made a decision of becoming a nun to do missionary work in India, devoting her life to the poor. Agnes joined the order “Sister of Loreto”. On 6 January 1929 she arrived in India and four months later (23 May 1929) began her novitiate and changed her name to TERESA (a name of a French nun whom spent her short life in a monastery in Lisieux). On 24 May 1931 Sister Teresa took her religious vow, she was later assigned to Darjeeling, a town in the hill of Himalaya to teach at Loreto monastery school and help in a hospital. That was her provision before she devoted her whole life for the poor and needy. She was later moved to Entally, a slum village in the east side. After taking solemn vow at 14 May 1937, she was promoted to become the headmistress of St. Mary’s School.

After living for almost 19 years in the monastery environment as novitiate, Sister Teresa couldn’t stand seeing the contradiction between the living within and outside the monastery environment. Read more!