Holidays Are Supposed to Be Joyful Times, Right?

I don’t know about you, but I always look forward to holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. I love the food, the music, the peacefulness of the picture-perfection in ads, movies, and images of the Season, the coziness, and safety of family coming together, like circling the wagons in the old days. Most of us are…

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This Is What Your Cell Phone Addiction Looks Like to Your Family

Just Picture It The Center for Psychological Research, Shenyang, in China recently released a new ad campaign through advertising company Ogilvy & Mather China that makes a bold, symbolic statement about an uprising issue: cell phone addiction. The ads do a great job of raising awareness about cell phone addiction in an incredibly impactful way. That could…

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Christmas and The Holidays – Merry or Scary?

Holiday Season Stress

Happy Holidays! We wish each other the best – for clearly nobody has bad intentions. We look forward to seeing our family members and relatives again. We are adamant that this time around it is going to be a great Christmas. We have a present for everyone and “that awesome gadget you found for Uncle…

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Thought of the Day, Monday, May 27th, 2013

As we are gathering with family and friends for the celebration of this Memorial Weekend, be it under a happily shining sun or in droopy rain, we will find that, for those of us with a Healthy Sense of Self, there will be fun and heartfelt joy when getting together with the folks we do…

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GUIDED JOURNAL coming up

We do need more time for reflection and self-management. We also need new guidelines that help us ground in ourselves in this tumultuous world. The values of our parents turn out to be not always usable anymore; times have changed. We need to become more self-reliant as often we live far away from our native town or even country.…

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It Takes Two to Tango

Be there to dance – be with him Be there to dance – be with her About a few decades ago I was trying to make sense of dancing the tango. I went to dance lessons and learned the steps: walk to the cross – tango, stop. I have loved the music for my whole…

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Thought of the Day, 28th of June, 2012

“It takes two to Tango!” We all know that expression don’t we? What we didn’t know is that it takes not just two random people with a lack of Sense of Self and dependent on a million things for their Substitute Sense of Self; it takes two individuals with a Healthy Sense of Self to…

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