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A friend of mine wrote the following meditation, and I was so touched by it because I have been trying to see myself lately as a loved child of God … as a flower in the hand of the creator … instead of as a person with all these illnesses and conditions. He writes: Dare…

Mental-health blogger and psychologist Elvira Aletta of Psych Central writes: Did you know that if you boil a pot of water and throw in a live frog that that frog will hop right out, saving his life to croak again another day (ha, ha)? If, on the other hand, you place a frog in a…

If you want to bring down the temperature in that pot of yours BEFORE YOU BOIL, I urge you to read Liz Owen’s great gallery, “12 Yoga Poses for Your Workday.” Liz writes: Have you always wanted to try yoga, can’t find the time in today’s busy and competitive world? Have you heard yoga’s a…

I know I usually devote Fridays to interviews with experts and other mental-health bloggers or try to answer a specific question of yours, but I thought I’d switch seats and be interviewed for a change. Fresh Living bloggers Holly Lebowitz Rossi and Valerie Reiss asked me some questions that made me think about some of…

A friend of mine recently suggested that I ask God to personalize a meditation for me … to pick up either the Bible or some spiritual author and start flipping the pages until I feel my spirit move. This morning was the first time I tried it. I picked up one of my favorite books,…

Can women and men just be friends? I don’t know. For the time being, I only befriend balding men over the age of 65. Oh, and gay priests. John Grohol over at Psych Central recently did some research on the topic and his findings were quite interesting. To get to his original article, click here. Excerpted…

This was really an epiphany for me: that URGENT doesn’t necessarily mean IMPORTANT. In “The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People,” Stephen Covey explains: The two factors that define an activity are URGENT and IMPORTANT. URGENT means it requires immediate attention. It’s “Now!” Urgent things act on us. A ringing phone is urgent. Most people…

Most research into the causes of depression focus on the limbic system: what the neurons and neurotransmitters inside that part of our brain of are to. However, more and more research is focusing on the endocrine system, and how our hormones contribute to mood shifts. I’ve been reading up on this because, as most of…

I think many people make the mistake of blowing off the diagnosis of a pituitary tumor. I know that I did. The word “benign” is misleading. I strongly suggest those who have one to check out this overall explanation by the Pituitary Network Association. Especially helpful to me was the letter by Robert Knutzen (the…

Alas, I need something positive to say after those somewhat somber posts. So … I bring you a link to Holly and Valerie’s “How to Celebrate ‘Feel Better Day’!” They love acrostics, over there, at Fresh Living. And I like to read them because they remind me of all the ones I composed as a…
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