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Who Should Decide What’s Best For You?
I’ve been doing a lot of work in recent years helping people create their own personal vision of emotional health. The media and mental health professionals paint one sort of picture, one dominated by...
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Dealing Well With Life
Emotional health is not the same as happiness. As odd as it sounds, emotional health is a certain sort of ability. It is the ability to deal well with life. If someone criticizes you and you fall...
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The Emotional Wellness Habit
Last week I introduced you to the idea that emotional health is an ability that’s in your power to nurture. Let’s continue chatting about this! Let’s say that a feature of your original personality is...
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Quick Meaning Repair
We’ve been chatting about emotional health as an ability that you can improve by instituting useful habits. Last week we looked at the following important habit: the habit of identifying a challenge...
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Tolerating A Difficult Thought
Maybe there’s some big thing that you know that you need to do. Maybe it’s changing your job, leaving home, separating from your mate or stopping your drinking. This thing feels so huge, dangerous, and...
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Repeat The Healing
Say that we receive a tremendous blow or maybe many tremendous blows. Maybe it’s constant belittlement in childhood. Maybe it’s too much chaos and punishment. We take that in and we become less than...
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Not Magnifying Difficulty
We cause our own distress if we magnify the difficulty of our tasks. Our tasks are already real: there is no need to magnify them. Our language should not make hills into mountains. Making mountains...
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A Lesson From Travis Alexander
I got sucked into the drama of the ongoing Jodi Arias capital murder trial. If you haven’t been following it, the thrust is Jodi savagely murdered her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, by stabbing him 29...
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Where Does It Irk Ya, Baby?
As a reinvention expert, I am often honored to lead others on a path of self-discovery as they embark on the next chapter in their lives. Among other exercises, one I highly recommend for those who...
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How Running Calms My Anxiety
I started running five years ago to get my body and my heart fit and healthy. But there has been an unexpected benefit as well – a more peaceful mind. Having been an anxious person since childhood, I...
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Waiting For Life’s Storms To Pass
Stress Fighter tip #7: Weathering life’s storms. Sometimes when life is hitting us pretty hard the best thing we can do to fight the stress that comes with it is bow our heads, say a prayer and...
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Awareness That Counts
As I sat down to watch Sunday night football recently with my husband I was caught off guard by the amount of pink on the field. Helmets dressed in pink, pink socks, pink ribbons and so much more....
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3 Secrets To A Loving And Lasting Partnership
When you first start out in relationship, everything is new and exciting. It’s an infinitely fresh journey of exploration with your significant other. As you grow together, the relationship goes...
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Podcast: Teaching Kids To Win At Losing
Listen Here: Dr. Frank Sileo is a NJ licensed psychologist with a private practice in Ridgewood, NJ and the author of four children’s books including Sally Sore Loser: A Story about Winning and...
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The Most Beloved Doctor In The World
You may think that America’s most loved doctor is named Oz, or Weil, or even Phil. But it’s none of those. His name is Sarno. No doctor has changed the basic understanding of our health, for the...
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Have Problems Turned Into Blessings For You?
Ever had your day start off pretty good and then something happens that turns your world upside down? . . . Like delays, missed opportunities and major nuisances that can suddenly make your blood boil...
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Podcast: My Kitchen Shrink Smoothie
Listen Here: Elyse Wagner is a food and attitude expert with over 15 years of experience with a dual masters in holistic nutrition and health psychology with a passion to help you stop food guilt, body...
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How To Handle Discouragement
At some moments in our lives, we feel depressed or “low” from something that happened to us. We might suffer a defeat on the sporting field. We may lose a friend or spouse. At some juncture, we may...
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How Eggplant Can Help You Deal With Difficult People
Like eggplant, some people can be bitter and difficult to enjoy. No matter what you say or do, it never makes them happy. They are miserable and try to share a taste of their bitterness with anyone...
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Podcast: 5 Strategies To Get Control Of Your Fast Paced Life
Listen Here: Dr. Douglas Haddad, better known as “Dr. Doug” is an author, educator, nutritionist and public speaker who presents on topics related to health, wellness and child guidance to both parents...
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