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Archive for March, 2009

ADHD Symptoms? In Search of Alternative Treatments

Monday, March 30th, 2009

According to the National Institute of Mental Health "ADHD is one of the most common mental disorders in children and adolescents and also affects an estimated 4.1 percent of adults, ages 18-44, in a given ...

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Is Expressing Anger Bad for Your Mental Health?

Friday, March 27th, 2009

A recent article on NPR explores the age old question of whether it's therapeutic to act on your anger. Alex Spigel writes about a woman in San Diego who has built a store for ...

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To Stress or Not to Stress, That is the Question

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Throughout our lives we've been interpreting and making meaning out of all kinds of events. Every even by itself is just an event, but the way we see it, the importance we give it, how ...

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Rumi’s Advice: Welcome Your Sorrows?

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Life is full of joys and sorrows. At one moment a baby is being born and at the same moment someone is dying. Someone is getting married and another is getting divorced. Someone just got ...

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Surviving Depression: A Mindful Way

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Depression is one of the most profound challenges of our time. We know that 25% of women and up to 12% of men will suffer a clinical depression in their lifetime and many more will ...

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Frustrated with Life? Advice from a Sage…

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

It's easy to get wound up sometimes and put on our anti-rose colored glasses seeing the world as bitter and oppressive. You may be walking outside one day and say "what is up with this lousy ...

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4 Ways to Walk (Mindfully) into Mental Health

Monday, March 16th, 2009

During the day many of us are moving so fast, sometimes physically, but almost always mentally. Our neurons are firing in hyper speed with so much to do and so much to pay attention to. ...

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McCartney’s & Lennon’s Wisdom: Let it Be

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Whether you're one of the millions or billions of Beatles fans or not, John Lennon had a point when he said "Life is what happens while we're busy making other plans." In 1970 Paul ...

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Calming Your Distressed Mind

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Sometimes in life it's helpful to have signposts that we can see to help bring us back to the present moment and reinforce a certain way of being that we aspire to. Just like signs ...

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Being Present Can Help Your Marriage

Monday, March 9th, 2009

In his recent blog, A Child's ADHD Can Stress Your Marriage, John Grohol, Ph.D. cites an Washington Post article stating an increase in divorce rates among people ...

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