Here you can watch the live recording or view slides from Dr. Lisa Firestone’s December 2 webinar “Refelections on a New Year: How to Become Your Best Self” This webinar with Lisa Firestone, Ph.D. helps individuals explore self-limiting behaviors and self-destructive ways of thinking that hurt them in important areas of their lives. By identifying… Read more »
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Anorexia nervosa is a disease that frightens all who are affected by it. To see a loved one actively wasting away in front of your own eyes is devastating. The frustration, confusion, and often, self-recrimination, all combine to render even the most stalwart among us feeling hopeless. In the October issue of Archives of General… Read more »
Learn MoreHere you can view slides and resources from Dr. Lisa Firestone’s December 4 Webinar “How to Raise an Emotionally Healthy Child.” As parents, we pay attention to our children’s physical wellness, never missing a symptom or a check-up. However, how attuned are we to the emotional health of our children? How well do our children… Read more »
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Most people would say they want to be happy. They want their children to be happy. They want their spouse to be happy. There is almost a reaction of fear if we ourselves, or someone close to us, is feeling “down.” The world-view prevalent in today’s culture seems to be that happiness is the “normal” that people… Read more »
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On Halloween our children indulge in flights of the imagination, flirting just as often with the concepts of princesses and firemen as with the concepts of the paranormal, the macabre, the wicked. Is candy a piece of the shadowy, sinister, malevolent tenor of the holiday? Spawning visions of the evils of tooth decay, financial decay,… Read more »
Learn MoreHere you will find all resources from the Feb. 8 webinar “How to Make Love Last: Overcoming the Fear of Intimacy.” DESCRIPTION: What prevents most people from being able to sustain romantic, meaningful relationships that satisfy their needs and desires? What qualities should a person look for when selecting a partner? What are the factors… Read more »
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A diagnosis of autism changes lives. The future a parent may have pictured for their child, for their family, is quickly reduced to the day to day attempts to grapple with this painful and baffling condition. While currently a reliable diagnosis cannot be made before the age of 2, a network of scientists across North… Read more »
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For teens who are struggling with self-destructive or suicidal thoughts, help is available. Here you will find information and resources for parents, teens, friends and family, teachers, counselors and those who have lost someone to suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in young people between the ages of 14 and 24. Many… Read more »
Learn MoreOatmeal is an easy and inexpensive tactic to reduce and remove skin scarring.Exfoliation is important in terms of stretch marks because it scrubs from the dead skin cells for the body, which make scars appear darker and more visible.Oatmeal works great as a possible exfoliating agent because it’s always coarse and crumbles with relative ease…. Read more »
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Anyone who has ever felt love for another can appreciate the irony of this question. We know the subjective feeling…I love, I have this warm feeling, I want to touch, to be close, to be held, to hold, to caress, to be caressed. I want to laugh with, to share with, to be with, this… Read more »
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