Author Archives: Sarah Roussos

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Therapy!

Therapy doesn’t have the stigma that it used to have.  It’s now an accepted alternative if you are having problems and don’t know how to resolve them.  Friends and family are often the first line of help, but often they are the problem and are anything but helpful or able to give valid and viable solutions.   So what then?  If you’re truly not happy where things are at in your life the obvious and best choice is to get counseling.

Dr Maryann B. Schaefer

 

Counselors

Counselors and their techniques are not all the same.  There’s a wide range of methods, just as there are a wide range of experience.  What works best for you may be behavior modification, but then again that may not be. Maybe psychotherapy is more your style and something that will truly make a difference in your life.   Those that are really good at what they do, are exposed to all of the major methods and can use most anything.  After all, not all issues can be handled one way.   So, the first thing you need to do is go and interview the counselors to see what works best for you.  If they charge you for the initial welcome meeting, you should move on.  Why?  Because there’s a strong possibility that they are only in it for the money and not for helping you move forward!

Experience

Experience

Experience is something that there is no replacement for.  Consider if you would how likely you would want to have someone do brain surgery on you, if they’ve never even picked up a scalpel before.  You wouldn’t!  So why should things be any different when looking for someone that would be helping you with your emotional challenging situations?  As important as it is to see if you will be able to confide in someone, it’s just as important to see if you’re going to have someone with experience.  Dr. Schaefer has 20 years of experience!  What 20 years  of experience tells you is simple: there’s nothing that she hasn’t walked people through.  There’s nothing she hasn’t heard and there’s nothing that she can’t handle.  That also means that you can count on her to be there for you tomorrow and even next year.

 

That Hardest Step!

The hardest step in counseling is the first one.  To pick up the phone or email.  Why?  There are many why’s, but arguably the largest is our pride.  We don’t want to admit that we can’t handle things on our own.  That we need help.  That we can’t solve whatever is going on.  And often times this isn’t helped by our friends.  Being told to “pull ourselves up by the bootstraps”, to “be tough” or to “just get over it”, doesn’t help matters.  But if you can’t just ‘get over it’ what do you do?  You seek out someone to help you.  If you were having chest pains, no one would tell you to pull yourself up by the bootstraps, and a good counselor can help you learn how to navigate through the fog and sludge that you’re trying to handle yourself!  Don’t wait, reach out!

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Advantages Of Timeshares

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Vacation

You want to go on vacation, but you don’t want to do the same old, same old.  You want something new and refreshing, but you just don’t know what you want.  Most often people are concerned about where they’re going to go and how much it’s going to cost.  That’s understandable especially where prices are currently at.  It’s often one of the best reasons to have a timeshare in the places of your dreams.  But what if you found out that you can go to all of those places when you wanted and not have to worry about the cost?

 

 

Advantage Number One

When you want to take a vacation to an exotic place, but don’t want to have to spend the high prices timeshares is there for you!  What they do is allow for you to have a vacation where you want, when you want at the price that you need and not the price that someone else wants for you to have.  It means that you can plan your vacation as far ahead as you need to and know exactly what the cost is going to be.  No last minute changes by the last minute resorts.  That means no bait and switch!  It also means that you can go out of your country and go to South Africa or the Caribbean if you chose to

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Marriott’s Grande Vista Resort

 

Another Advantage!

You’re not locked into having to keep it for ever and ever.  Should you decide to sell your timeshare you can and get this, you can still use it until it’s sold.  People can sell their timeshares for any number of reasons including divorce and lack of use.  It’s up to you what you do with it, how long you keep it and how much to sell it for!

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Timeshares are fun and enjoyable, there’s nothing really like having one.  You decide what you want out of it and YOU decide where you want to have one at.

 

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Life’s Stressors

Life is such a challenge.  It’s is filled with all kinds of obstacles and challenges as well as joy and happiness.  Everything from a wedding, to the birth of a child, to the loss of a loved one bring about change.  Obviously those that are pleasant are met with arms wide open, but those that are consider unpleasant like death are not as well received.   Whether a good life event or a bad one, they all have one major thing in common: STRESS!  Ask anyone that’s gotten married if planning the wedding and the day of the wedding are stressful and you will get a resounding YES.  Ask a woman in labor if it’s stressful and the answer will be YES.  Lastly, ask someone who’s loved one has passed away if it’s a stressful time and you’ll probably be asked to leave or be picking yourself up off the ground.  Because it is a very stressful time.

 

 

Planning

It is an interesting thing planning.  If you ask someone to get married, in most cases plans for the ‘Big Day’ will be made for months if not years in advance.  For the simple reason that you want your wedding day to be as perfect as it possibly can.  You want things to run smoothly.  If you’re the bride, you want your wedding dress to be as perfect and can be and you want to make your groom proud that you are going to be his in just a few minutes.

The same attention to detail is never given to the day of one’s departure.   Why?  Well that can be debated, but there’s no doubt that a good portion of the reason is because we never want to think about it ahead of time.  It’s something that will happen somewhere down the road, and it’s an unpleasant thought at best.  We don’t want to make wills out, plan for estate sales, trust or probate.  Death is just unpleasant!

John F. Kennedy’s Funeral

 

Alleviating Stress

One of the reasons that weddings are less stressful than funerals is because they are planned well ahead of time.  If you were to try and make all of the arraignments the day of your wedding, well it just wouldn’t happen.  Why?  Because there’s just to much to do.  The same is true for funerals.  There are all kinds of arraignments that need to be done from notifications of family and friends to where the funeral is going to be held at.  If by some chance you’re a surviving family member and a house needs to go into probate, the stress is even more intents.  Consider that you don’t have to wait for the death to handle a large chunk of what needs to be done.

Probate, Wills And Trusts!

Probates, wills and trusts are several things that you can get done well before they are needed.  Also hiring a lawyer to make sure these things are executed well before they’re needed.  When you do just these few things, then much of the work is done as well as much of the stress that you have will be alleviated.  You can also have all of your funeral arraignments made and paid for ahead of time.  There by having one more stress removed for your family.  It’s not easy, death and passing never are.  But why not do what you can do before it has to be done or you have to do it?