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Not So Brady: 4 Rules for Staying Together When You Remarry with Kids

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

There's a story ... of a lovely lady ... who meets her prince charming and the two of them ...

5 Clues You Should Be Letting Go of Something

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Awhile back I discussed Eileen Flanagan's book, The Wisdom to Know the Difference. If you'd like to learn more about her, visit her website at www.EileenFlanagan.com. Therese: What ...

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Best of Our Blogs: November 6, 2009

Friday, November 6th, 2009

I'm attending the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy today, and I'll write more about the inspirational work this organization ...

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How Do You Treat Empty-Nest Depression?

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Several mom friends of mine have lately come down with a bad case of "empty-nest depression" -- moms who just dropped off their youngest offspring to ...

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Bye Bye Asperger’s Syndrome?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Is the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome -- a mild form of autism mostly diagnosed in boys -- heading the way of the dodo bird? A new article ...

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Group Therapy for Binge Eating

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Binge eating disorder is characterized by a person having frequent episodes of eating what others would consider an abnormally large amount of food, while ...

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Introducing Weightless: A Blog About Body Image

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

You really can't help but be overwhelmed by the amount of focus these days on how a person looks. The people who are most harmed by this shallowness are women, especially young adults, as so ...

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The Fear of Relapse: 5 Cognitive Tools

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

A reader recently wrote to me about her overwhelming fear of relapse. She said, "I'm struggling now with it, obsessing over it, and I'm ...

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What Health Care Reform Means for Mental Health

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Now that it looks like some form of health care reform will be passed this year -- barring a catastrophe like Joe Lieberman -- we have some idea of how the eventual act will affect ...

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Research-Backed Online Mental Health Interventions

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

So the other week I attended and presented at the First International e-Mental Health Summit 2009 in Amsterdam and already discussed ...

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Depression, Lifestyle and Processed Food

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

We know that people who are depressed don't eat as well as people who don't have depression. So not ...

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5 Ways to Tackle Perfectionism

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

This week I have the pleasure of interviewing Michelle Russell, who writes the fantastic blog, "Practice Makes Imperfect." Since we talk about perfectionism a lot on Beyond ...

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