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Quick Break: You Make the Choice
Both Quick Break exercises encourage you to make the choice that is right for you. First, watch the inspiring video, Enjoy the Ride and select an affirmation and incorporate it into your day. Then, take a humor break, and select one of the jokes in the sidebar and share it with someone.
Better Tomorrows Program
When a relationship fills your life with stress and pain, how can you find peace again? How can you repair a stressful relationship with your adult child, parent, partner, sibling, friend, neighbor, or co-worker? In the Better Tomorrows Program you will find answers to those questions and more.
Check out the program and look forward to the possibility of relationships that can be joyful, peaceful, and rewarding, even though that may seem at the moment to be an impossibility.
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Ten Questions Worth Considering
Read this revised version of the new feature and send me the name and contact information for someone whose answers you would like to hear. I'll be interviewing him or her over the telephone and recording it for online listening and a transcription you can read. Perhaps you, yourself, would like to be interviewed. Let me know in the Contact Us form.
Articles and Book Reviews
Are You Too Sensitive?
Relationship experts Joyce and Barry Vissell ask the question, Are you too sensitive? According to them, maybe we need to see this question in a different light.
Finding Grace: Susan Boyle's Gift
Author Donna VanLiere explores what is to be learned from one woman who stood on stage and blew away allof our preconceived expectations.
Permission to Feel
Tal Ben-Shahar, author of The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life points out that while it's sometimes necessary to "keep certain emotions out of sight (when we're on the street), it's harmful to try to keep them out of mind (when we are alone)."
Meeting a Grandson I Wasn't Sure I Had
This is an excellent illustration of the complexity of many family relationships today. And it also shows how the Internet can play a role in bringing families together.
Busy
Women Can Be Mindful
Too AND Guilt-free
Mindfulness
Sue
Patton Thoele suggests
that people like her, who
are trying to live mindfully,
might make better progress
if they "started a
new 12-step program called
SAA: Stimulation Addicts
Anonymous." Well,
if it feels as though
you, too, could use such
a support group, you will
appreciate this excerpt
from her book,
The
Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices
for Restoring Calm, Finding
Balance, and Opening Your
Heart.
A Woman's Call to the Ministry
This is the first chapter of A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit by Sarah Sentilles, who shows us how committed women must be if they are to lead a congregation.
Working Mothers: Having Multiple Roles
How are
some working moms able to
balance raising
children and holding down
a job? This article, by
a therapist who is also a
mother, explores how some
are able to handle multiple
roles successfully.
Hidden
Fear of Abandonment
Barry
and Joyce Vissell, a husband
and wife marriage counseling
team, point out that while
sometimes the fear of abandonment
is more obvious in one person
than in another, if you look
deeper, you will see that
we all experience this fear.
They offer a way to help
one another find healing
of this common
problem in life.
Recent Blog Entries You May Have Missed
The Power of Words offers an award-winning video that demonstrates the impact words can have on our actions
Brief Notes for the Fourth of July encourages you to consider carefully what you really mean by patriotism
Accepting Our Parents' Blessings When Our Parents Are Less Than Perfect explores the difficulty of genuinely wishing parents a happy Mother's Day or Father's Day when we hold onto resentments of the past.
Stopping Perfectionism Takes Time uses my experience to show how difficult it is to recognize when we are going overboard.
Taxpayer's Challenge: A simplified version of the Tax-and-Spend Game
An E-mail Challenge for all of us who are tempted to forward an e-mail without checking the facts.
Additional Material Presented in the Latest Newsletter
(in case you aren't a subscriber)
NOTE: You can always read archived newsletters
Getting our brains ready for the new age introduces you to the new Imagery section, now titled Exercising the Right Side of Your Brain, Part One of Images and Symbols: The Glue of Habit, the Lubricant of Change. Read the first part of this book online and look for the announcement of the manual created for therapists, coaches, and their clients.
Catalina Nocturn is the chosen picture for the Stepping Into Pictures feature
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