FAMILIES & COUPLES

Working together, supporting your family health

Working together, we can move towards:

• Better understanding of your thoughts, feelings and relationships with others

• Coping with the various, changing roles and demands of daily living

• Developing strategies to address unproductive patterns that cause stress in your life

• Reducing overwhelming feelings of anxiety and depression that often accompany intense, rapidly changing circumstances

• Re-imagining yourself and your life after experiencing a profound change or loss

• Adjusting to what a particular illness or loss means to your family —whether those changes are temporary or permanent

• Understanding and working through acute stress or trauma, for example, by knowing the signs and symptoms and how to respond safely and healthfully

• Knowing that there are somewhat predictable stages with grief and loss and learning how to use this information to lessen the pain

• Finding resources inside yourself and out in the community to aid in the process of healing

• Support through the challenging process of looking for a partner or staying healthy and close in your current relationship

• Identifying better, more effective parenting strategies