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• Apocalypse Not: Everything You Know About 2012, Nostradamus and the Rapture is Wrong
  Back in 2010, students at the high school where I taught began telling me, without the least bit of skepticism, that the world was going to end in 2012.  I’d reply, “No, it isn’t” and ...
• Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
  Jon Kabat-Zinn writes the foreword and does a lovely job of setting the stage for Mark Williams and Danny Penman’s Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World.  In the foreword, as ...
• Q&A: Stepfamilies and Children
  Q: I am remarried and we have a three-year-old daughter (Becky). From my husband's first marriage, he has a nine-year-old daughter who visits ...
• The Lonely Screams: Understanding the Complex World of the Lonely
  Loneliness is certainly a common human experience; even if you’ve been lucky enough to feel it only briefly, or rarely, you know the misery of it, the actual physical pain of it. Arising from a ...
• The Challenge of Children with Special Needs
  Labels abound, some of them distasteful, some inaccurate, some just in vogue, others useful to understanding and planning. I ...
• 5 Reasons Not To Marry the One You Love
  For many young girls, being a bride is the closest thing possible to living out childhood fantasies ...
• Permission for Moms To Have Negative Feelings
  Q: I have a toddler who doesn't sleep well and never naps. She exhausts me with her never-ending need for ...
• Career Coaching 101: Finding a Professional to Help You Find Your Fulfilling Career
  “Career coaching is a great way to get personal help with establishing your professional ...
• The Memory Palace: A Memoir
  We children of schizophrenics are the great secret-keepers, the ones who don’t want you to think anything is wrong (p. 5). Author Mira Bartok has encapsulated in this statement her life as the daughter of mentally ...
• 5 Damaging Myths About Postpartum Depression
  Postpartum depression (PPD) is one of the most common complications of childbirth, according to Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, director of the Perinatal Psychiatry Program at the UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders. PPD ...
• Do Children Really Spend Too Much Time in Front of Screens?
  Once again the experts in child development and child health are warning parents about exposing their ...
• 15 Tips to Boost Your Well-Being and Happiness
  Taking better care of your body boosts your well-being fairly fast. “[Exercising and eating well] provide nearly instant benefits, ...
• OCD: Treatment for Contamination Fears
  Before discussing currently accepted treatments for contamination obssessive-compulsive (OC) disorder, let's cover treatments that should be avoided (but unfortunately are still used ...
• OCD: Symptoms of Contamination Fears
  The most common association regarding people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) are that these people are primarily concerned with germs and becoming 'contaminated.' ...
• The Myth of the Perfect Marriage
  When the reality of marriage doesn’t meet our expectations, we tend to blame reality. When it comes to marriage, we expect the ...
• Stepfamilies on TV: Step by Step
  Family has been a main focus on television since the beginning of the television, beginning with families like the Cleavers and ...
• The 5 C’s of Effective Discipline: Setting Rules for Children
  People don't just stumble upon good parenting. Parenting well, like any other skill in life, is something ...
• Questions Kids Ask About ADHD
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a fairly common mental health concern among children and teenagers today. It is readily treated by medications, psychotherapy, or a combination of the two. Here are some commonly asked ...
• Questions Teens Ask about ADHD
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a fairly common mental health concern among children and teenagers today. It is readily treated by medications, psychotherapy, or a combination of the two. Here are some commonly asked ...
• 32 of the Best Ways to Get Organized When You Have ADHD
  Organization is a common challenge for adults with ADHD. But it can be done! ...
• Anger Trigger Behaviors
  The vast majority of chains of angry behavior never proceed past the first link. For example, someone in the family will tease or insult ...
• The Mid-Life Crisis: An Opportunity in Disguise?
  In the movie City Slickers the character played by Billy Crystal hits his 39th birthday and finds himself in a ...
• A Special New Year’s Resolution for Procrastinators
  Procrastinators rejoice! The coming of the New Year is a fantastic opportunity for you to energize yourself toward achieving ...
• Avoidance in OCD: It’s Never the Answer
  One of the common ways that people deal with anxiety is through avoidance. Afraid to fly? Well then, don’t. A large crowd of people ...
• The Alzheimer’s Family: Helping Caregivers Cope
  If you were asked to name a terminal illness, it is likely that Alzheimer's would not be your first choice.  However, from my own perspective, when you consider that there is no cure for this ...