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Tips To Prevent Holiday Stress And Avoid Faking The Holiday Spirit

Doc Childre | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living


Doc Childre

Planning parties or family gatherings can feel overwhelming. It can be hard to find the holiday spirit. Here are some tips to prevent stress through the holiday season.

Politicians Can Count on Popular Despair After Copenhagen

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics


Sanjay Khanna

The possibility that a climate agreement won't be reached is increasingly becoming a reality. For society, the failure could be much more dire than just melting ice caps.

What's Wrong With Positive Thinking? Simple Strategies To Manage Your Thoughts

Tamar Chansky | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living


Tamar Chansky

Positive Thinking could be considered the high fructose corn syrup of the thinking world--when forced. It's not necessary, and research has found that it's not good for us when we have to sell ourselves on it.

Give The Best Gift Of All This Holiday Season

Mike Robbins | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living


Mike Robbins

Instead of just giving "stuff" for the holidays this year, what if we gave the people in our life the most meaningful gift of all; our appreciation? Let the people around you know you appreciate them and why.

7 Unitasking Tips: You Can Have It All

intent.com | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living


We are hungrier and devouring more all the time. We have grown overweight and our children are following in our bigger shadows. We even multi-task our...

How To Stay Grounded During The Holidays

Mike Robbins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living


Mike Robbins

This year, with all that's going on around us in the economy and the world, what if we each made a commitment to appreciate the holiday season and enjoy the whole experience?

The Dangers Of Multitasking And How To Stop

intent.com | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living


It seems that we are all becoming terribly distracted. This partial attention is taking our time, productivity, balance, and I would argue, sanity....

Response To Danger May Differ According To Sex

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living


Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain activation have found that men and women respond differently to positive...

How To Deal With Stress

Christine Hassler | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living


Christine Hassler

To me, stress is not something to "manage" since managing stress implies that it is still going to be there. Wouldn't you rather eliminate stress by learning how to respond to it in more life-enhancing ways?

Elderly Urged To Look After Their Mental Health

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living


As we are in the winter months older people in Ireland are being encouraged to look after their mental health and to seek help and support if they are...

10 Things They Don't Tell You About Raising Children

Ruth Akers | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living


Ruth Akers

I've noticed, with friends bringing home new babies, that there's a whole list of things they don't tell you when they send you home from the hospital with a bouncing burping bawling bundle of joy.

Your Holiday Relaxation Rescue Guide (VIDEO)

Tara Stiles | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living


Tara Stiles

Reserving time for ourselves around the holidays seems so far away from the reality of forced spending, emotional exhaustion, and general frustration.

The Art of Slow: Just Say No!

divinecaroline.com | Christine Hohlbaum | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living


Now, more than ever, we need to utilize the tiniest complete sentence the English language has to offer. Are you ready? Say it with me now: No!...

5 Ways To Cope With Holiday Grief

intent.com | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living


Behind our holiday smiles and good wishes, many of us carry feelings of deep grief.� So how can we have a wonderful holiday if we are experiencing s...

7 Reasons Crying Is Good for You

divinecaroline.com | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living


Tears are just one of many miracles we taken them for granted every day. Here are seven ways tears heal us physiologically, psychologically, and spiri...

Walking And Talking On Phone Dangerous For Seniors

LiveScience | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living


For older people, gabbing on a cell phone while walking across the street may increase the chances of being run over, according to a new study...

Meditation Has Physiological Benefits, Study Says

nytimes.com | Roni Caryn Rabin | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living


Could the mental relaxation produced by transcendental meditation have physiological benefits? A study presented last week at the American Heart Assoc...

How To Transform Your Fear

Mike Robbins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living


Mike Robbins

Many of us run away or hide from our fears because they seem scary, uncomfortable, or embarrassing. We also erroneously think we "shouldn't" have them or that we are somehow "wrong" for feeling scared.

Put Your Manhood On The Tray

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living


Tom Matlack

My wife's annual mammogram has always been a time of great anxiety. It's my least favorite week of the year. Not because she has cancer but because she just might.

Arron Sears and the Chamber of Secrets

Laine Ewen | Posted 11.20.2009 | Sports


Laine Ewen

Though it may be in Sears' best interest to work on his issues without the city of Tampa breathing down his neck, his role as a public figure makes the private situation hard to ignore.

Do You Speak Or Eat Your Mind?

divinecaroline.com | Melissa McCreery | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living


Women who feel strong and competent in other areas of their lives, feel so uncomfortable with anger and frustration that they turn to food to avoid it...

Writing "Beyond Blue": Keeping My End of the Bargain

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books


Therese Borchard

Here I am. With my mission: to educate folks about mental illness and to offer support to those who, like myself, suffer from mood disorders.

Counting My People

Helen Davey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books


Helen Davey

An Autobiographical Book Review of Robert D. Stolorow's Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections.

Slow Living: How To Gear Up

divinecaroline.com | Green Sherpa | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living


When you're busy fulfilling the urge to be everyone's everything all the time, there something incredibly restoring to closing the door, waving the wh...

Fort Hood: When Stress Kills

Roberta Lee | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living


Roberta Lee

It's beginning to look like our lives are more at stake than we care to acknowledge and if we don't do something different, well...any one of us could be dead sooner than we think.