Healthy Living Articles

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• Manage Your Depression Through Exercise
  Starting any exercise program can be a tough task.  However, for those suffering from depression, it can be close to impossible.  Just getting out of bed is a struggle for some; how are they to ...
• 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, ...
• 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 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 ...
• ADHD and Menopause: What You Need to Know and What You Can Do
  It’s hard enough having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But if you’re a woman ...
• 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
  In 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, Peter Bregman doesn’t offer a slew of strategies to accomplish all your activities per day. What he does offer is an ...
• The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder
  Having a special interest in how diet & physical activity help ease the symptoms of mood disorders, I was excited to review Stephanie Marohn’s book The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder.  This review covers ...
• The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time
  David Sloan Wilson’s The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time, sports a misleading title. While it does contain teachings that hint at ways we might improve our municipalities, ...
• Natural Remedies for Dealing with Stress
  Many Americans today are under huge amounts of stress. With the decline of the economy, many find themselves dealing with ...
• Alternative Treatments for Depression
  There are a wide range of alternative treatments for depression. Before seeking out a mental health professional or talking to their doctor, a ...
• 4 Tips To Change the Way You Deal with Stress
  Dr. James C. Dobson once said “there are very few certainties that touch us all in this ...
• How Couples Can Help Each Other De-stress and Improve Their Relationship
  “Stress impacts our love relationships more than we are aware of or acknowledge,” according to Judy ...
• 10 Ways Loving a Dog Can Teach Us to Love Our Bodies
  Worried parents often come to my psychotherapy office, wondering how to teach their children to have ...
• The Development of Food Preferences
  The development of food preferences begins very early, even before birth. And likes and dislikes change as we grow into adults. ...
• The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
  A shaky self-confidence or relentless self-doubt stops many people from pursuing their passions. A fear of failure gnaws at them, leaving them at a standstill and unsatisfied with their lives. If you know what I’m ...
• 9 Myths and Facts About Therapy
  Unfortunately, therapy still remains a shrouded subject, and many myths persist. The problem? These misunderstandings can prevent people from seeking ...
• Supporting Your 20-Something Child into Healthy Adulthood
  Are we doing enough to support our 20-somethings' transition into a healthy adulthood? In some ways, today’s young adults have ...
• Train Your Brain to Get Happy
  It seems as though every few months another book is published that purports to have discovered the ultimate cure for an unhappy life.  Some tout self-esteem, others Buddhism, and still others plastic surgery.  Train Your ...
• Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression
  In Yoga for Emotional Balance Bo Forbes, PsyD, explores how yoga can compliment traditional psychotherapy to help patients improve their anxiety and depression symptoms through movement and breath work. Much of the book is devoted ...
• The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life
  The Fatigue Prescription by Linda Hawes Clever, M.D., is subtitled Four steps to renewing your energy, health, and life. The book is divided into two parts:  the diagnosis and the “renewing remedy,” which the author ...
• Treating PTSD with Surf Therapy
  For the last handful of years, Britain and the United States have done quiet experiments with a new form of therapy for veterans ...
• Recovering from Mental Illness? Be Your Own Best Friend
  The bad/sad news: According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four adults -- ...
• 10 Tips for Setting Boundaries Online
  Good boundaries are important for healthy relationships, but when it comes to our online lives, we rarely think to ...
• Eating Disorders Spike Among Middle-Aged and Older Women
  When you hear the term, eating disorder, many people may typically think of a perfectionistic adolescent girl heavily into ...