Counseling Corner for the week of January 6, 2016

It’s New Year’s Resolution time, or more accurately, time for setting big life changing goals and then soon discovering you’re probably not going to reach them.

Why? Because most of us tend to think too big. Stop smoking...lose weight...make it to the gym more often. While these are all good goals to aim for, achieving success can be difficult since that often means major life changes. It’s fairly easy to say “I want to give up cigarettes,” or “I’m going to drop 30 pounds this year,” but actually making those things happen requires some drastic and difficult changes in the life we’ve gotten us...