Laugh When I hear my two year olds deep, rolling laughter it engulfs me with delight. No matter what ails me, it brings me joy. Laughter is miraculous. It can change moods, relieve stress, calm tension, create bonds, and build our capability to stretch our patience. In the midst of many escalating moments in […]
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Our thoughts propel us forward through life whether we think they do or not. Our personal vision creates who we are and what we will become. “We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.”-Buddha Samantha, age seventeen, was depressed. She looked at herself large and chubby, constantly saying negative things about herself,
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Teen stress seems to be virtually unavoidable. With pressures from coaches, teachers, parents, and employers, constantly weighing down on them, it’s easy for teenagers to become bogged down in everyday stresses. It’s easy for teens to burn themselves out. However, it doesn’t have to happen that way. Navigating those stresses is not only possible
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Co-parenting is hard enough when the parents are the divorced biological mother and father of the children. It is almost a given that parenting styles will be starkly different, likely one of many factors leading to the divorce in the first place. Now, let’s mix in one or two more personalities … the new spouses
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John came into the room today and declared in no uncertain terms, “I decided that I don’t want to talk to my dad anymore.” Startled, I turned around and asked him why? I knew that he was frustrated trying to get a hold of his father, because his dad just never picked up when John
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The other night, my mother and I attended a Memorial Service for my dad at The Inn (his name for the nursing home where he lived for 7 years while doing his slow dance with Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia.) My dad lost his battle 2 1/2 months ago on November 18th after suffering a major
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Costumes, parties, and sweet treats. Most kids love the excitement of Halloween and its slight thrill of spookiness, but kids who have experienced significant trauma may have mixed feelings about this shivery, scary holiday. For traumatized children, grotesque masks worn by strangers, noisy crowds, and being outside after dark can stir up stressful memories of
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One of the reasons I love being a writer is that again and again I’m part of a story. But I don’t mean only the story I’m telling; I’m also part of the story of how that story came to be. And a story usually doesn’t begin in that lovely, sometimes incandescent moment when it
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Silent films, early sound films, wartime films, action films, foreign-language films, mysteries and thrillers, sci-fi and horror, comedies, soap operas, and yes, even westerns. Today, as adults, they all still have a fondness for the golden oldies. Black and white? No problem. Doesn’t fill up the widescreen TV? So what? Takes its time building a
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