Here’s an example of when I could recognize a divine hand in my life: One day last year, on our kitchen counter, buried underneath the old apple cores, brown bananas and three days worth of mail, lay an invitation from Boston College to participate as a panel speaker in a national symposium on marriage. (Here’s…

Following is the master plan to helping your child resist negative thinking that Dr. Tamar Chansky presents in her book “Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking.” However, her strategies are just as effective for adults. Used by permission of Da Capo Lifelong, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Step One: Empathize with Your Children’s…

In her book, “How to Heal Toxic Thoughts: Simple Tools for Personal Transformation,” Sandra Ingerman offers a few more tools you might implement in the all-consuming war against negativity. Here is a Beliefnet gallery based on her book. It begins … If you’ve ever felt the way anger or fear can electrify the atmosphere in…

My editor, Holly, (check out HER website) created the group “How to Stress Less” a year or so ago on Beliefnet Community. It has 1,000 members and is full of helpful discussions on how to manage stress. Here’s the official description of the group in Holly’s words: Stress – it’s the scourge of modern life,…

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