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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

5 Emotional Vampires and How to Combat Them

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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Behavioral Economics: This Is Your Brain On Money

Monday, October 26th, 2009
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that with recession-related anxiety saturating the very air we breathe, we might be a bit slow to trust our financial decisions. For ...

Why Sleeping On It Helps

Monday, October 26th, 2009
We're often told, "You should sleep on it" before you make an important decision. Why is that? How does "sleeping on it" help your decision-making ...

Optimism: Great Technology That Can Help You

Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Ever since I was discharged from the inpatient psychiatric program at Johns Hopkins, I have kept a mood journal where I daily ...

The 7 Laws of Boundaries

Friday, October 23rd, 2009
One of the classic books on how to establish better personal boundaries is "Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, To Take ...

The 4 Kinds of Friends You Need in Your Life

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
You hear about peer pressure when you are the sixth grade, but no one talks about it once you've graduated from ...

Just Say No: 10 Steps to Better Boundaries

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Up until recently, "No" was dirty word to me. As a stage-four people-pleaser, my vocabulary was rich with affirmatives: "yeah," "sure," "okay," "absolutely," "no problem." But my mouth just couldn't ...

What is a Nervous Breakdown?

Monday, October 19th, 2009
A nervous breakdown refers to a mainstream and often-used term to generically describe someone who experiences a bout of mental illness that is so severe, ...

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