From the monthly archives:

April 2009

What I Am Still Learning About Meditation

April 30, 2009

I’ve been meditating for a little over a year now and if you get me started I can talk for hours about what it has done for me. I began to study the practice of meditation for a number of reasons. As a therapist I sit for long periods of time which leads to a [...]

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Teens and Change

April 29, 2009

Have you ever had the experience of complimenting your adolescent or teen-ager on a noticeable change in them (for the better) and they deny that they’ve changed? Sometimes I make the mistake of listing all the changes that an adolescent or teen in my counseling practice has been made. Inevitable he or she will look [...]

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Keep a Marriage Alive After 15,25,30,50,60…Years

April 28, 2009

I think there is a lot to write about when it comes to marriages in the 21st century. While contemplating my own upcoming wedding anniversary – I became curious about the longevity of marriages over the last 100 years. So, I went back to 1908 because this was when states began keeping records of divorce. [...]

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A New Perspective

April 26, 2009

Men, Women, Relationships, Marriage, OH MY!
I went to see a wonderful play yesterday with Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen called Impressionism. I am not planning on doing a review but the acting was great and the staging was creative and beautiful (if you like impressionistic art, it’s a visual feast). The Impressionists were famous for their [...]

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Women and Sleep: Does Perimenopause and Menopause Really Change Your Sleep Patterns (and all those other things you hear about)?

April 24, 2009

You betcha!!! Where once there were three hormones – now there are none – or very little.  Everything is changing.  Do you feel that way?  Do you occasionally see this as some cruel joke of nature?  At the very moment when you can stop worrying about getting pregnant, your body does this weird, whacky number [...]

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Women and Friendship

April 23, 2009

It’s amazing, isn’t it – that women can do this – they can meet another woman for the first time standing on a line at the bank or grocery store and in ten minutes or less they’ll be talking about their boyfriends, their jobs, their kids, as if they have known each other for years. [...]

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Children and Depression

April 22, 2009

Are kids more depressed now than they once were? Or are we more aware now than we once were?
According to David G. Fassler, M.D., a Board Certified child and adolescent psychiatrist practicing in Burlington, VT. – the answer is both. The statistics are scary -Dr. Fassler states that suicide is is the second leading cause [...]

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