Find the Upside of the Down Times Some people have all the bad luck, and by any measure Rob Pennington, author of Find the Upside of the Down Times, has had more than his fair share. He was shot in the chest, ...
Recognizing and Dealing with Stress Stress is often defined as a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset the balance of things ...
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 ...
The Empty Chair at the Holiday Table Getting ready for the first Thanksgiving after David died was very, very hard. The loss of my husband’s brother ...
When ADHD and Anxiety Occur Together It's not uncommon for individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to struggle with anxiety, whether it’s several symptoms or a ...
Accepting and Overcoming Anxiety So there you are in the middle of a business meeting, Wal-Mart, a shopping mall, your kids’ school play, and out of nowhere, ...
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 ...
Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older In the film Gigi, Maurice Chevalier sings about the advantages of aging in the song titled "I’m glad I’m not young anymore." Wendy Lustbader would agree with him. As she puts it in this book, ...
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In This is an updated and revised version of the first edition of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, published over 30 years ago. Roger Fisher is the founding chair of the Harvard Negotiation ...
Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past Boris Cyrulnik is a renowned neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst, director of teaching at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, France. At the age of 5, he lost both of ...
I Love You. Now Change. She married him because he was hardworking. She was considering divorce because he turned out to be a workaholic who was barely ...
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 ...
Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us The word "terrorist" can call forth descriptors like "evil" or "crazy." But ordinary people can be moved toward criminal and violent acts through circumstances that become progressively more extreme. Psychologists Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko, ...
Modeling Healthy Behavior for Your Children It is important to recognize that parents can do everything possible and still have a child fall into unhealthy behaviors. But ...