Opting for Change in the Face of Fear
Opting for Change in the Face of Fear by Anne Ball My name is Anne and I am a 34-year-old mother of two children: Maxine, aged 13, and Sarah, aged 8. When I look out of my kitchen window to observe my girls playing in the background, I pray that they always stay the way they are – energetic, fun, strong… Maxine is now entering adolescence and sometimes gives me cheeky responses to my questions, asserting her need forindependence and...
How Swimming Has Helped Me Enjoy School
Dear Readers, Please let me introduce you to Kathleen Carter. She is a teenager who is living with Aspergers and has volunteered to share her article with us! – – Alejandro Adrian LeMon, Ph.D., LMHC By Kathleen Carter If you saw me at school now, you would never guess that I used to hate it. For years, Idreaded school days and would plead with my mom not to make me go. You see, while I loved learning, as someone with...
Exercises to Ease the Symptoms of Depression
By Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. Depression has reached truly epidemic levels around the globe, with more people everyday falling victim to its effects. According to MentalHealthAmerica.net, depression “affects more than 19 million Americans every year, regardless of age, race, or gender.” A severely debilitating mental illness for millions of sufferers all around the world, depression has claimed many lives. Some who suffer...
Eternal Sunshine of the Sensitive Mind: The Highly Sensitive Person Survival Guide
Over the years I have learned that there are always going to be people that are not going to be your fans, and there is not a lot you can do but smile…. and move along. But it got me thinking about the destructive power that only a few critical words can have on the self-esteem of a highly sensitive person. Unfortunately, there are people who criticize you because either they have a need to blame others for their own feelings of...
All-encompassing Compassion Means All Beings Are Included
By Lisa Dale Miller, LMFT The subject I am about to discuss may be controversial, but I have been sitting with this for almost a week working it through in my own mind and heart. It had been nine days since the Newtown tragedy and I was fixing myself some dinner, listening to the evening news on NPR. The newscast switched to live reporting from an evening vigil taking place near a local Newtown church. My sad heart immediately moved...
The New You: Top 10 Strategies for 2013 New Year’s Resolutions
Despite the ups and downs, despite a doomsday prediction, you’ve made it! You have survived 2012! This is the time for a fresh start and a new you! I have narrowed down a few tips to help you with your New Year’s resolutions: Divide and conquer. Make your goals attainable by attacking in small amounts. If reaching your goal requires five workouts a week, but you can only go to the gym three days a week, then you need to...
