Archive for August, 2012

• Wired for Success: Using NLP to Activate Your Brain for Maximum Achievement
  There’s a great quote from Charles Darwin that forms the basis of Wendy Jago’s new book: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the ...
• Reiki Healing and Mental Health: What the Research Shows
  Healing touch therapies, the best known being Reiki (pronounced RAY-key), are ancient practices in ...
• Emotional Chaos to Clarity: How to Live More Skillfully, Make Better Decisions, and Find Purpose in Life
  Phillip Moffitt’s life is right out of that classic story in which a financially successful man -- one who seemingly has it all -- realizes he needs something more. He realizes there's something deeper, something more ...
• Therapists Spill: The Moment I Realized I Am Enough
  Many of us feel like we have to earn our ...
• Reiki’s Use in Dementia Patients and For Their Caregivers
  Memory problems. Stress. Confusion. Bizarre behavior. Depression. Anxiety. Caregiver burnout. These challenges all too often occur in ...
• Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are
  Memoirs have a unique ability to give life to a possible journey that a reader is considering making. "Coming of Age on Zoloft" by Katherine Sharpe is one such memoir. Prozac, the first and probably the most ...
• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Boost Your Brain Power!
  "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Boost Your Brain Power! You Can Improve and Energize Your Brain at Any Age" is an empowering collection of stories on how anyone, at any age, can enhance their brain ...
• Almost a Psychopath: Do I (Or Does Someone I Know) Have a Problem with Manipulation and a Lack of Empathy
  Do I or does someone I know have a problem with manipulation and empathy? This is not just the subhead of the book "Almost a Psychopath," but the underlying question that authors Ronald Schouten and James ...
• Improving Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care: Truths & Lies I Told My Father
  A person with dementia can be said to be ...
• The Thing You Think You Cannot Do: Thirty Truths About Fear and Courage
  “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look at fear in the face,” said First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. “You must do the thing in which you think ...
• 4 of the Biggest Barriers in Bipolar Disorder
  People with bipolar disorder can face many challenges -- from the illness’s fluctuating feelings to its destructive effects ...
• Finding Happiness: One Man’s Quest to Beat Depression and Anxiety and Finally Let the Sunshine In
  In Finding Happiness: One Man’s Quest to Beat Depression and Anxiety and—Finally—Let the Sunshine In, Todd Patkin takes us through his life, outlining the troubles, as well as fortunes, he has had along the way. Throughout ...
• Talk to Me First: Everything You Need to Know to Become Your Kids’ “Go To Person” About Sex
  Sex has become so prevalent in America in recent years that not only is it casually accepted, it is commonplace. With just a few clicks, any child can access an unending world of pornography on his ...
• Improving Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care: The Eyes Have it
  Seeing is believing, yes? In our day-to-day world, we believe that ...
• Asperger Syndrome in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
  Despite widespread awareness of the disorder, many still think of Asperger Syndrome as being largely confined to children. This is a myth. Dispelling it is the central aim of the new book, Asperger Syndrome in ...
• Improving Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care: Emotions Rule
  Habilitation Therapy (HT), a comprehensive behavioral approach to caring for people with Alzheimer’s Disease and related ...
• Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
  Daniel Smith describes himself as anxiety personified in his absorbing and humorous memoir Monkey Mind. Smith was anxious from birth. Anxiety lurked in his genes. Both his mother and father suffered from severe anxiety: His ...
• OCD and Humor
  Obsessive-compulsive disorder often is portrayed as a quirky, cutesy, bothersome at most, illness. This couldn’t be further from the truth. ...
• Improving Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care: Environmental Impact
  Memory loss is the most well known problem associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias (ADRD). ...
• When to Worry About Forgetfulness
  I’m in my mid-50s, and I forget things. Where did I last lay down my car keys? What did I need ...
• Unlock your Fidgety Child’s Ability to Learn and Focus
  Teaching is hard enough, but when you have a child who has a hard ...
• Qsymia and Belviq Drugs for Obesity, Weight Loss
  If you're obese and are at the end of your ropes looking for weight loss help, there's good ...
• Starting a New School Year Following a Summer of Change
  Kids’ backpacks don’t only contain their lunches and homework. If their lives aren’t stable, their cares ...
• 5 Wrong Reasons for Going to College
  It’s the summer before college. You’ve been preparing for it for years -- studying, researching ...
• Therapists Spill: The Best Ways to Shrink Stress & Anxiety
  Stress is a reality for all of us. ...