Preparing Your Child to Launch: The Fear & Joy of Letting Go!
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Preparing Your Child to Launch: The Fear & Joy of Letting Go!

As I look back over the years when I was raising my three grown children, I breathe a sigh of relief that they are well adjusted adults. By some miracle, all three of them are making wise choices in their relationships, personal choices and careers. They are also having children of their own!  Over the…

Tips for Restoring Work & Life Balance (*BONUS FREEBIE DOWNLOAD*)
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Tips for Restoring Work & Life Balance (*BONUS FREEBIE DOWNLOAD*)

Do you feel irritable, tired and unmotivated when it comes to your life and work? Do you lack inspiration, feel overwhelmed, and find yourself procrastinating when you try to complete projects? Do you find yourself without joy, vision and purpose in your daily life and work routines? You may be experiencing burn out, the physical…

Do You Have a Harmful Secret Life?
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Do You Have a Harmful Secret Life?

Do you struggle with a secret that evokes shame? I am not talking about hiding chocolate from your kids. I am talking about engaging in destructive and risk-taking behaviors that disrupt your intrinsic sense of self.  Living a secret life usually has to do with covert behavior that restrict personal freedom, undermines confidence or evokes…

The New Science of Stress: Part 3 of the Wonders of Stress
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The New Science of Stress: Part 3 of the Wonders of Stress

Besides the word ‘sex,’ stress is one of the most mentioned ‘S’ words that impacts our life in significant ways.  We in the behavioral health field, as well as those in the medicine, have pretty much vilified stress over the years, with its impact on heart disease, and other systems of the body.  New scientific…

Finding Contentment
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Finding Contentment

One of my personal goals is to experience more contentment in 2014. I am not talking about being contented with the social injustices, disasters, sickness, tragedies or other negative issues in our messed up world. Nor do I mean having a counterfeit contentment based on shallow materialistic or based on unusable relationships. Contentment is defined…