Creative Success Depends on Long View
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The Only Conversation: Planting Yourself In The Present Moment
We are always having conversations, most of the time, with ourselves.
Although we have a deep need to speak and be heard, there are few who can really listen and actually hear. Even fewer know how to speak their truth in a way that is uplifting [...]
Convincing A Person To Get Help For Their Mental Health Issues
Getting help.
When I began my struggle with fear and anxiety, the first thing I did was to seek help from a mental health professional. I realized that in order to deal with my fears effectively, I had to educate myself on the techniques that [...]
How I Dealt With My Persistent Fears & Anxieties
As the author of a book on managing fear, I have struggled with fear, anxiety, and stress for over 20 years.
During this time, I have talked to various professionals in the counseling fields, read many books, and researched many ways on how [...]
Time Management – You Are The #1 Priority
We all schedule our activities.
We allot time to important things like work, creative endeavors, education, sleep and socializing. But what about ourselves? Do we set aside time in our day to take care of our physical and emotional needs?
How [...]
Is Gun Control An Answer?
Will gun control be the answer to our societal problems?
Here is one voice checking in on the issue.
I don’t think that choice will, in and of itself, solve the problem. Just as the “war on drugs” won’t solve the problems of drug addiction, [...]
The 5-Minute Workout
Home workouts.
If you workout at home and are looking to add some shape and tone to your body this coming year, here is a quick body weight workout you can do at home, the office or at the gym. According to Men’s Health magazine they found [...]
Are You Developing Smart Phone Neck?
Um, hello, up here! Hi!
Nobody looks up anymore. Everyone is too busy looking down at their smart phones, laptops and tablets – texting, reading, flirting, browsing, shopping, playing games, watching videos and more. You could be at risk [...]
We Need to “Disarm” Insurance Companies!
The true culprit.
We have heard and read “ad nauseum” about gun control, mental health, parenting, who is responsible for such tragedies as the Newtown, CT shootings, blame, blame, blame. This is insanity. Video games, The [...]
New Year’s Resolutions Got You Down?
They seemed like a good idea on January 1st.
Around January 7 – not so much. Somehow you thought your life would be different come the first of the year, but you still don’t have time to exercise, you still aren’t preparing healthy meals, [...]
Breakfast Of Champions In The Classroom
As a principal of a small New York City Public High School, my goal is to ensure that effective teaching and learning occurs within a safe school environment.
In addition to effective teaching and learning, I want to equip my students with the [...]
The Video Game Dilemma
Video games and isolation.
As the families and nation begin the long mourning process of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, we learn more about the killer…I write this in no way to glorify that person, but to educate people as [...]
Sandy Hook Massacre, Another Demand for Social Change!
A senseless tragedy.
Nothing is more sad, horrific, senseless and devestating as what happed on Decemebr 14th at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
What in the world causes a 20 year old man to go on a rampage where 20 children [...]
‘Tis The Season To Be Jolly
One of my favorite symbols of the holiday season are the words “Ho Ho Ho.”
It’s so cheerful–simply a short and to the point message of happiness. I buy any and all Holiday decorations that have these three little words written on [...]
How Far Does “Blue Blood” Go Today?
This has to be the saddest, most obscene tragedy on many, many levels, that the modern world has ever known!
Jacintha Saldanha, a nurse caring for Prince William’s wife, Catherine, treating her morning sickness, received a prank phone [...]
Confused In Low Fat & Low Calorie?
Most people usually have a number in mind that he/she wants to achieve as far as his weight is concerned.
In this age of perception, we can all agree that no matter how much we would like to conceal it; not having the body that you want tends [...]
Eat The Foods That Love You Back!
Your Relationship with Food
Do you have a healthy relationship with food? Or is food the enemy—a foe you do battle with daily?
According to CBS News, two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. That’s more than 190 million people! [...]
Mind, Body, Spirit: Which Is Which?
Body—mind—spirit–where does one stop and the other begin?
Within our own minds we decide how intimately the two are connected. We each decide just how self-aware we want or need to be. Our histories have created for us a worldview [...]
Flushed Out & Fabulous!
So, what does unjunking yourself do?
It peels away the crap you’ve surrounded yourself with for months, sometimes YEARS. Layer by layer the lies you’ve been telling yourself and the fat you’ve been trying to protect yourself [...]
PMS is a Mental Disorder?
The DSM-5* is proposing that premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a mental disorder.
I guess that means that as of May 2013 when this is published, half the population will be classified as disabled by virtue of their gender. Hm…
As a woman [...]
Rocky Mountain High-er
Amendment 64 was passed in Colorado this week, legalizing the recreational use of marijuana.
“Wow man!! That’s so so cool!” Many people are celebrating this event while others shake their heads in disbelief. Production [...]
Can You Rev-up Your Metabolism?
Here are a couple of things to think about when you hear someone tell you how to rev-up your metabolism.
First, and most importantly, just because you burn more calories, doesn’t mean you burned calories from the breakdown of stored body fat!
Your [...]
Un-junking Myself
I’ve made a decision.
After years of dieting, intermittent exercise and countless amounts of processed, fried and toxic foods crammed down my pie hole, it’s time to replenish my body with what I’ve stripped away through hazardous, [...]
Is it a Trick or is it a Treat?
With the tone of the voice in Poltergeist—“they’re heeere…”
The grocery store shelves are full of them and have been for weeks! Halloween is only one day, yet candy makes its appearance weeks early, ensuring those little “fun-size” [...]
Avoid Halloween Candy: Tricks to Stop Eating Treats
Okay, I’ll admit it:
I’m one of those people who are tempted by those bite-sized Halloween candies that seem to turn up everywhere (or, that I buy myself!)
Hubby loves the candy corn, and I’m partial to anything with chocolate!
Over [...]
5 Things You Can Do to Live a Mindful Life
Mindfulness—lately it’s become a hot topic of conversation in book clubs and popular magazines.
Last weekend someone even brought it up in conversation at a party. If you haven’t attended a mindfulness class and you’re wondering what [...]
Rationalization Nation
Hey that person’s fat too . . . and so is that one!
I’m not nearly THAT big!
I’ve got a ways to go . . .
Screw salad. “I’ll have a cheese burger and fries, please. After the nachos come out, of course.”
That’s [...]
Are You Crazy or Do You Have Celiac Disease?
A few years back I received a call from a concerned daughter.
Near tears she reported that her family was at the end of the rope. Her mom was acting erratically and was experiencing wild mood swings. One moment she was depressed, crying, and [...]
Our Histories, Our Bodies
Body—mind—spirit, where does one stop and the other begin?
Within our own minds we decide how intimately the two are connected. We each have our own perspective on just how self-aware we want or need to be. Our histories have created for [...]
It’s IMPOSSIBLE!
When you have a big chunk . . .
CHUNK CHUNK (Sloth voice from the Goonies – involuntary word association, sorry)
. . . of weight to lose, it looks, feels and sounds IMPOSSIBLE.
Especially when you’ve been there, done that and have [...]
The “ABC’s of College Binge Drinking” (Alcohol Binge-Drinking Consequences)
There is BRAND NEW RESEARCH that “proves” college students who “Binge Drink” report being “happier” than those who don’t! HAPPIER???
Yes! This is what has been reported by Carolyn Hsu to Time.com! The “studies” are supporting [...]
The Dreaded Butt Print…
Microfiber couches. Oh how I loathe thee.
The genius who developed this material as a selection for sofas and other furniture designed to be sat on was not fat. Obviously. If they were they never would have condemned big bottomed girls to the [...]
Trying To Wing WING NIGHT . . .
Bad idea.
For about a year and a half, the hubs and I have been slathering ourselves in smoky, tangy, spicy sauces nearly every Wednesday night at this delicious sports bar that just happens to be less than two miles from our place. These cheap, [...]
Here We Go Again For The Last Time…
Diet. Lose Weight. Life. Gain Weight. SHAME.
Repeat.
Sounds so familiar. A story lots of women know. Men too. Weight struggles don’t discriminate.
So here I go again. On my own. Walking down the only road I’ve ever known.
But this time [...]
Is Your Teen At-Risk for Suicide?
Are we paying enough attention to our children?
It’s been said that “The best thing you can spend on your children is time,” and according to a recent study by Janice Wood (2012) in How to Recognize Teens at Risk for Self-Harm, this appears [...]
How Old Are You… No, Really?
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” Satchel Paige
We all get reminded at least once a year how old we are in chronological years. Yet, is this really the way to measure?
There is a theory that we get stopped emotionally [...]
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