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Breaking Up? Blame the Chick Flicks!

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

My 20-year-old daughter tells me she thinks the reason so many young relationships fail is because of the “chick flicks.” You know: Those movies where the focus is entirely on the heady romance between a ...

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Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Bobbe Tyler, author, nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator for Lucasfilm Ltd, has written a book of the type, and in the style, that has kept her alive all these years. Her book, Searching ...

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Who Said It’s Not Your Affair?: Part 2

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

No one is immune to an affair. They can happen in any marriage and - according to some research - do in up to 45 percent of them. Luckily, most marriages survive beyond ...

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Finding Love after 60

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

During the last few months of her life, my grandmother Ruth, then 93, was too frail for family to adequately care for at home. With much reluctance, she and we all agreed that a nursing ...

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When Everyone Else Is Married with Children

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

It started in my mid-twenties. At first it was a slow trickle, then the downpour exploded. Almost all of my friends started getting married. I was a bridesmaid so many times that ...

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Life Coaching: Who Needs It?

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Feeling stuck? In a rut? Life coaching helps you identify and change those areas of your life which you find unfulfilling or unsatisfactory. Coaching has been around a long time, but usually in the ...

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Top Tips To Keep You Healthy and Working Out

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Now that we are midway through 2009, it is time to check in on how the year is going. Where are your healthy habits right now? Often, people start a new year strong ...

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Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Most women have a variety of physical or emotional symptoms related to their monthly usuaperiods. Symptoms are usually present during the five days before their period and then disappear within a day or two of ...

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10 Reasons You Don’t Listen

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

We're all guilty of not listening at one point or another in our lives. We tune others out while we're watching the TV, or trying to concentrate on something we're reading. Nowadays, we try hard ...

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10 Reasons You Can’t Say How You Feel

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Not everyone finds expressing their feelings easy or having it come naturally. While the stereotype is that men have the hardest time expressing their emotions, everyone at one time or another in their life may ...

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The Psychology of Mental Toughness

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

People often seek therapy when they feel overwhelmed, out of control, or unable to take positive action. They think they come to figure things out and may not know that psychotherapy can make you stronger. ...

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Fixing Cognitive Distortions

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Cognitive distortions have a way of playing havoc with our lives. If we let them. This kind of "stinkin' thinkin'" can be "undone," but it takes effort and lots of practice -- every day. ...

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15 Common Cognitive Distortions

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

What's a cognitive distortion and why do so many people have them? Cognitive distortions are simply ways that our mind convinces us of something that isn't really true. These inaccurate thoughts are usually used to ...

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Become Your Own Life Coach

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

The not-so-new realm of life coaching has been growing for several decades and has become extremely popular and widely available. But finding a coach, making the time for an appointment, and sharing our innermost hopes ...

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Giving Ourselves Permission To Feel Again

Monday, April 6th, 2009

"One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields -- even to sadness" -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Imagine Main Street if we didn't rein in our emotions. Rude comments tossed at a passersby who fails to ...

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