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Little Irritating Things
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It was the third time she had been diagnosed with cancer. An elderly woman with a history of depression. I met with her, her husband and daughter. We met together to support her during this time of crisis.
I was not sure what to expect. There has been a long history of emotional disconnect and conflict in […]
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10 Ways To Transcend the Disastrous Economy
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In order to cope with the declining economy and the disastrous effects on our lives, we need resilience. When we have major trauma in our lives, we experience stress. Emotionally, we feel strong feelings such as anger, fear, anxiety and despair. People with resiliency feel these feelings, but react to their stresses with focus, determination […]
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HEALTH STARTS IN THE MIND AND FLOWS TO THE BODY
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I am indebted to Jennifer Nicole Lee for the above title of this post. Jennifer wrote a post entitled “Health Starts in the Mind and Flows to the Body-Retain Your Mind and Clean Out Your Mental House“.
Jennifer had seven very strategies for developing the right mental attitude for achieving success and improving the quality of your life.
The strategies […]
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If You Can’t Be Honest, You Can’t Change!
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There are many ways that people “mess up” their lives. Unfortunately, ” when many people try to stop “messing up”, they ”mess up”?
One of the biggest ways people “mess up” is by not being honest!
If we are “messing up” in some part of our lives, it is not an accident. We are either consciously or unconsciously choosing to […]
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The Mental Fitness Solution For Emotional Overeating
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Healthabits had a very insightful post “Emotional Eating: When Diets Don’t Work“.
When you stop and think about it, emotional overeating can prevent any diet from working successfully.
If emotional overeating was not a factor, do you think that any or all diets could work for you?
Is it likely that all diets will fail for you, if your emotional […]
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Mental Fitness and Maintaining Weight Loss
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Do you know what the four reasons are for failure to maintain weight loss? Yahoo Health had an article from The Capessa Blog: Sharing the Wisdom of Women entitled Four Reasons We Regain Weight.
The National Weight Registry reported information on 7000 successful people, who maintained a weight loss of 30 pounds or more for over a […]
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When the One You Love Won’t Get Help
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I had a heart wrenching response to my post, Too Many Problems . A woman was very concerned about her mother who is struggling with emotional problems. Her mother has been unresponsive to her requests and concerns. Her mother has refused to get help and she sees her mother slipping away into depression.
I believe many of us […]
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Counseling or Mental Fitness Training?
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I am often asked what is the difference between counseling and mental fitness training. This is a very important question. The differences are significant. For some people counseling is a better match. For other people mental fitness training is preferable.
It is very difficult to reduce all forms of therapy into a brief synopsis. Therapies usually […]
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Too Many Problems?
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In the next few blogs I am going to share with you how the origins of the mental fitness solution. When I first began working as a psychologist, it didn’t take her long to realize that most of my clients had more problems to address the more humanly possible in one session or groups of […]
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I Don’t Care!
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Consciously, most of us probably have sometimes been motivated by a “I don’t care” attitude. Sometimes out of anger, disappointment, fear or anxiety, we say or act-out the “I don’t care” attitude.
Sometimes people are unconsciously motivated by the “I don’t care” attitude. We see this attitude in people when they are indifferent to their health […]
