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Personal Growth

When The Kids Leave For College…

September 2, 2009

Years ago a woman wrote a personal column in the New York Times about parents and sleep-away camp. I remember laughing so hard my belly hurt. At least 15 years later, I still remember it. She described the two types of parents she had come to know through her  experiences as a parent of a [...]

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“If YOU Change, I Will Be Happy”

August 24, 2009

“You Change and I will be happy”
At the heart of every conflict, disappointment and relational frustration is the idea that if the other person changes we will be happier. Think about your last disagreement with someone you cared about.  Was there an intense need to have that other person see things your way and just [...]

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Loving Yourself First

August 20, 2009

How often have you heard the expression “You can’t love someone else until you love yourself?” It sounds corny to think about loving yourself but self-love and the ability to love yourself is at the core of what is called self-esteem.
So what is self-esteem? Self-esteem is the capacity to know your own worth and value [...]

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Is The Past Affecting Your Relationships?

August 15, 2009

I have been thinking a lot about relationships — and not only those we have with our intimate partners. I have been trying to determine a common denominator, the common denominator that stops relationships in their tracks, paralyzes them at times, puts us on the defense and make us unable to work through conflicts and [...]

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I Hurt You, You Hurt Me Back… And Harder.

August 4, 2009

I hurt you, you hurt me back… and harder.
Does this sound familiar — and painful? It can take months to clean up the mess and the aftermath of a dual of hurt and rage — Words generally do more damage than hands. The worst part of an emotional exchange gone wrong is the piggybacking of [...]

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Is the rain getting you down?

July 1, 2009

For more than 40 years scientists and psychologists have been studying the effects of weather on people’s mood. So, if you are feeling a little down and out-of-sorts these days,it’s likely that all this rain may be some of the cause. About 20% of us report feeling more tired, irritable and depressed during winter months when there is less sun and more chill in the air and this is also so when rain goes on and on and on — Seattle, known for its copious amount of rain reports a high depression rate.

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Personality Tests

June 25, 2009

Have a little fun and take the Jung Typology personality assessment.  This is the abbreviated version of the collaborative test developed by Carl Jung and Isabel Mayers-Briggs. I have found this test to have great merit in its assessment of personality types. More importantly, humanetrics provides some detailed info about each of the types and [...]

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Anger is good for your health!

June 14, 2009

I think anger is under-rated. It is so bogged down with acts of violence and abuse that it is nearly impossible to see it in a positive light. But anger is wonderful and a part of the human experience. It gives depth to our lives and is a significant part of the cycle of human [...]

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