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• Mother’s Day Thoughts by a Mommy of Angels
  I have been thinking. I have 6 Angels waiting for me in Heaven. I have miscarriages. The couple weeks surrounding Mother's Day contain several significant dates for me anyway. May 8th was the 7th anniversary ...
• My Relationship with Running
  Running has become one of my favorite things. It provides me with goals that are measurable, is 100% for me, clears my head, and provides me with an immeasurable amount of confidence and self ...
• Match.com — Again
  I gave in. I signed up for Match.com again. Awesome new men were not appearing in my life without any effort on my part, so I decided to try online dating again. Online dating ...
• Another Antidepressant Journey
  Today I have spent a lot of time on the phone with both a nurse and my psychiatrist. Our big topic of the day? How to get me off Celexa. I started ...
• Sylvia Plath’s Legacy
  For someone who has only read her biography and never read any of Sylvia Plath’s actual poetry, I spend an awful lot of time thinking about her. That’s because I suffer from chronic depression ...
• Back to Match.com?
  Currently, I am interested in two men. Neither is viable as my new boyfriend. Dating in my 30s is different than dating in my 20s. I am able to more accurately assess ...
• Health Insurance: The Eternal Battle
  Health insurance is a subject that weighs on me and keeps me up at night. Every once in a while my insurance situation is sorted out and the worry briefly lifts, then something happens ...
• Are You Doing Enough Cardiorespiratory Exercise?
  There are many types of cardiorespiratory exercise options, including running, biking, hiking, group aerobics and climbing stairs. Everyone has a preference—often I speak with people who say they only like to use the elliptical ...
• Exercise Diary of a Personal Trainer: February
  Ever wondered what a personal trainer does for her own workouts? I work at a gym and am there six days a week. Exercise is my life and my livelihood. Because of ...
• Facebook: Enough Already!
  I have now heard it said by a few different people: Facebook is over. The social networking tool that the world fell in love with has become so thoroughly embraced that it is ...
• Budget Living and Beliefs
  “Am I selling out if I don’t buy the $14 deodorant?” This is a question I was asked last week by a good friend. The obvious answer to this question is “Who needs ...
• Going Broke as Slowly as Possible
  There is no question, living within a tight budget is as much fun as a visit to the gynecologist. Possibly even less fun, because a visit to the gynecologist is one afternoon, whereas budget ...
• My First Trip to the Psychiatrist
  It seems that life is made up of a lot of different “firsts.” The first time you leave home, the first time you have sex, the first full-time job you accept, your first apartment, ...
• December Festivals: A Celebration of Diversity
  Companies spend millions of dollars on diversity training to help workers become more sensitive to each other's cultures, traditions, and practices. School boards now regularly struggle with the tension between wanting to celebrate the holiday ...
• 12 Tips to Keep Joy in the Holidays
  The Christmas season is upon us once again, and once again we find ourselves balancing between our work or studies, hanging out friends, scheduling time ...
• The Subway Run-In
  Sometimes when you go through a rough phase in your life, something happens to show you that the phase has ended and you’ve moved on. I’ve just had this experience and am overjoyed to ...
• Choosing Happiness in Our Lives Revisited
  Ten years ago, I wrote how we often make the choice of something else less important over our own and our loved ones' happiness. This article has generated a lot of positive comments over ...
• 5 Secrets to a Successful Long-Term Relationship or Marriage
  There have been a thousand or more articles written about how to have a successful long-term relationship or marriage, but none that seem to capture some of the core ingredients I've found important in relationships. ...
• Halloween Safety Tips for Parents
  If a visitor from outer space were observing our town during the last few days of October, I’m sure it would be ...
• Your First Psychotherapy Session
  Your therapist may take for granted how difficult it is for most people to actually make the decision to seek out treatment for a mental health concern. A therapist will typically see anywhere from 6 ...
• Accepting the Truth about Ourselves
  Another Session in Confession Considering the amount of time I spend confessing my mistakes and shortcomings in therapy, I often think the doc missed his true calling. And therapy would definitely be easier if I could ...
• A Shakespearean Tragedy in Houston
  A Tragic Tale of Self Betrayal Polonius, a character in Shakespeare's "Hamlet," once remarked, "To thine own self be true." Four hundred years later, a tragic story unfolded on the world scene, with Ken Lay in ...
• 10 Things You Might Not Know About Mental Health
  In the vein of figuring out what life is all about in this world, it sometimes helps to have "cheat sheets." Financial planners do this, programmers do this, managers do this, engineers all do this ...
• Web 2.0: Consistency, Relevancy and Reliability
  Implications for Health and Mental Health Information Online I've seen this question from varying folks over the past year or so as the next obvious evolution in the "tagging" craze -- "Why don't we just ...