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Keeping Your Mind While Your Aging Parents Lose Theirs

Doing Your Best for Mom or Dad in the Final Years It’s happening in large numbers. We aren’t alone. We’re having to take care of our aging parents. More people are living longer. Unfortunately that doesn’t ... Read more... »

Does Chocolate Addiction Exist?

Chocolate craving is very common, but can we actually be addicted to it? Can these powerful urges to eat truly be classed as an addiction? We generally crave foods due to external prompts and our ... Read more... »

Assertiveness: A Personal View, Part 1

We all know how important it is to be assertive, and yet so many of us find it very hard to achieve in practice, especially if we have had some depression or social anxiety in ... Read more... »

Mental Illness in the Workplace, Part 4

In the last issue, I discussed the rights and responsibilities of both you, as an employee, and your employer. Now, besides deciding whether to talk to your employer, your colleagues need to be taken into consideration ... Read more... »

Acceptance, Part 3

One of my biggest life changes in recent years has been finding out I have arthritis and a couple of degenerating vertebrae. I denied to myself that there was anything wrong with me when ... Read more... »

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt