Can’t Sleep?
Many of us have experienced those nights when we toss and turn in our beds hoping to find a position that will allow us to settle down and fall fast asleep. Sometimes, no matter how hard we press our eyes …
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Category: Health and Well-Being
The Value of Mental Training for Student Athletes
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Your BODY IMAGE is Affecting Your Life
The phrase “body image” sounds like just another buzz word perpetuated by school officials and politicians. However, body image is very important to our view of ourselves and how we relate to the world around us. The term “Body Image” …
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Breaking-Up: Accepting the Past & Defining the Future
As the average age of getting married continues to climb in the United States the way we date has also changed. We are engaging in more long-term, serious relationships before marriage and, therefore, have to cope with these “extra” breakups. …
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Who Listens To You?
When was the last time that you “had a good listening to?” Really. It seems that some people want to do all of the talking. Other well-meaning friends, relatives, and business associates may seem too busy or distracted to really listen. Attempting to …
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Who Listens to You? – VIDEO
What Is Happiness?
Don’t read this unless you have faced severe crisis that’s shaken you to your core and made you believe that your life is not a journey to the Promised Land, but, instead, a giant process of never ending worry and …
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How to Care for Yourself While You Take Care of Your Aging Parent
Being a parent is no easy task, and assuming a parenting role with your own parent or parents is a tremendous challenge. But, many of us are currently in that role and learning “the hard way” how to navigate this …
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Is My Child…Overweight?
A loving parent recently expressed some concerns regarding her teenage son becoming overweight. She mentioned that her son was preoccupied with technology. His time was being consumed with cell phones, iPods, iPads, text messaging, emailing, video games, Youtube, and social …
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How to Nurture a Healthy and Happy Family Life
In an era of overtime, afterschool activities, and on-the-go dinners, parents and their children seem to be getting busier with each passing year. In order to thrive in our active culture, families need to take time to strengthen themselves from …
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Transitions
I don’t really need to change, do I? Because it is our human nature to hate big changes, we tend to ignore the need for such changes as long as we can. We keep telling ourselves that things are bound …
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Take Inventory of Your Life
As this year comes to a close, and we look forward to the beginning of the year 2012, it is time to reflect on where our lives have been and where we are headed. Some people take their life inventory …
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Find Balance… And Keep It
In a world where multi-tasking is expected, technology provides constant updates and simple decisions are strenuous (been to the cereal aisle lately?), a feeling of being stretched, strung out and stressed can only be expected! Finding balance between our professional, …
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43 Important Life Lessons
The personality and identity of each of us is our expression of the sum total of all we have learned throughout our lifetime as a result of our interactions and experiences with others. Here are a few pearls for which …
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Physical Fitness Starts with Mental Fitness
Two Wolves One evening a Native American told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is the Wolf of Suffering. It is anger, …
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Any One Feeling a Little . . . Sleepy?
Obtaining a refreshing night’s sleep is difficult for many people. Some estimates state that 30-50% of adults experience insomnia or sleeplessness. Many have difficulty falling asleep while others have problems remaining asleep and returning to sleep. Often people report that they …
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Weight Loss: What You Need to Know
This article summarizes useful information and resources about weight loss. It can be done! The Columbus Dispatch (3/31/04) reported on a woman who started walking marathons at 275 pounds. Two years later, after losing 50 pounds through exercise and diet, she …
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Have A Good Day
How many times each day does someone say to you, or you say to someone else, “have a good day”? In fact, this expression is so common that you may neglect to ask yourself if, indeed, you are truly having …
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Making Your Life Count
A common concern of many of my clients is that they want to have more meaning in their lives. There are countless examples of “high profile” individuals, i.e. athletes, movies stars, politicians, musicians (to name a few), who use their …
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A Fable: The Power Of Listening
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, far, far away, beyond the widest rivers, over the tallest mountains and across the deepest sea, in the middle of the bluest water where the sun always shined there was an …
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