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Couples Facing Finances in Lean Times

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

When I was a new therapist, I thought the hardest thing for couples to talk about would be their sex life. Not so. As long as neither one is cheating, talking about sex ...

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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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Women and Violence

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

The impact of violence against women is too often masked by silence. Its continuation depends on silence. Distance keeps us safe and unless one personally experiences violence or knows someone who has, many of us ...

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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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Who Said It’s Not Your Affair? Part 1

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

When politicians make the headlines for having an affair, people often respond by taking the moral high ground. Though affairs of ordinary people do not make it into the news, the truth is that any ...

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Too Much Togetherness Solution: A Hat

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

As a child I remember my great aunt saying irritably, “I promised you ‘for better or for worse’ but not for lunch!” ...

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Outlawed by Your In-laws

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Numerous marital problems can be traced to habitual boundary difficulties between mothers and sons which spill over into the man’s relationship with his spouse. Management of the mother-son relationship from earliest days establishes patterns ...

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Daughters Growing Up, Mothers Growing Scared

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Weddings, and wedding planning, are ripe for seeds of conflict to bloom into family feuds. Details take on exaggerated, symbolic importance as family members jockey for position in the new family constellation. Quarrels over plans ...

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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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Meta-communication: What I Said Isn’t What I Meant

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

"We're not communicating." The woman on the phone thinks she has told me why she and her husband of only a year want to come in for therapy. "Does your husband agree?" I ask. "He thinks ...

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Q & A with Eating Disorder Specialist Sari Fine Shepphird: Part 1

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Sari Fine Shepphird, Ph.D, a Los Angeles clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist, is the author of 100 Questions & Answers about Anorexia Nervosa. Psych Central contributor Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., spoke with her about ...

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Exercise During Pregnancy

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Recently, I read an article citing a 2002 report by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). It stated that pregnancy is no longer a condition for confinement. Confinement? Really? ...

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Can Probiotics Prevent Childhood Allergies?

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Probiotics—"good" bacteria found in healthy mammals' intestinal tracts—help regulate digestion and control the harm done by infectious bacteria and yeasts. New research shows that giving probiotics to pregnant women and their babies is safe and ...

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Mother’s Day Thoughts by a Mommy of Angels

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

I have been thinking. I have 6 Angels waiting for me in Heaven. I have miscarriages. The couple weeks surrounding Mother's Day contain several significant dates for me anyway. May 8th was the 7th anniversary ...

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We Shouldn’t Need a Day of Our Own

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Everybody in the United States is terribly aware the second Sunday in May is Mother's Day -- the floral and greeting card industries won’t let you forget it. Mother's Day is big business. (Whether people ...

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