Archive for June, 2006

Listed by most recent articles first.

• Keeping Your Mind While Your Aging Parents Lose Theirs
  Doing Your Best for Mom or Dad in the Final Years It’s happening in large numbers. We aren’t alone. We’re having to take care of our aging parents. More people are living longer. Unfortunately that doesn’t ...
• Does Chocolate Addiction Exist?
  Chocolate craving is very common, but can we actually be addicted to it? Can these powerful urges to eat truly be classed as an addiction? We generally crave foods due to external prompts and our ...
• What’s in a Name?
  What's in a name? How does changing your name upon marriage affect your identity? The majority of women take their husband's surname and shift from Miss to Mrs. But this may have more than just ...
• Help for Quit Smoking Now!
  Cigarette smoking is one of the worst habits for health and one of the most difficult to quit. But remember: you can do it! It begins with a plan, determination and a little help from ...
• Learning About Self-Image and How We View Ourselves
  Self-image is both a conscious and subconscious way of seeing ourselves. It is the emotional judgment we make about our self-worth. We form our self-image through interaction with others, taking into account their reactions to ...
• Your Sense of Coherence
  Can your 'sense of coherence' influence your health? The concept of sense of coherence (SOC) was put forward by Aaron Antonovsky in 1979 to explain why some people become ill under stress and others stay healthy. ...
• Survival of the Resilient: Skills for Handling Life’s Inevitable Disappointments
  Sometimes life can feel like the reality television show, Survivor. Especially if you are a teen or young adult, life can feel like a high stakes game where there is every chance you’ll be eliminated ...
• Assertiveness: A Personal View, Part 1
  We all know how important it is to be assertive, and yet so many of us find it very hard to achieve in practice, especially if we have had some depression or social anxiety in ...
• Mental Illness in the Workplace, Part 4
  In the last issue, I discussed the rights and responsibilities of both you, as an employee, and your employer. Now, besides deciding whether to talk to your employer, your colleagues need to be taken into consideration ...
• Acceptance, Part 3
  One of my biggest life changes in recent years has been finding out I have arthritis and a couple of degenerating vertebrae. I denied to myself that there was anything wrong with me when ...
• How brand names trigger our emotions
  Hundreds, if not thousands, of brand names have become highly familiar to us as they form part of our everyday life, thanks to widespread marketing and advertising. We may like to believe we can "tune ...
• Those Cheating Hearts
  “Is my boyfriend cheating?” “Am I cheating?” “How do I catch my girlfriend?” “Why can’t I have my fun and my wife too?” “What are the signs?” “How do I confront her?” “How ...