Groucho Marx once said: “Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.” Aging well, in contrast, is an entirely separate art that involves planning, getting clear on your own definition of the “good life” and self-care. Making these investments in your life now […]
Quarterly Newsletter
The Effect of Family Roles on Life’s Choices
With hardly any thought at all, you can probably say whether, in your family of origin, you played the role of the responsible one or the rebel, the people pleaser or the mascot. Roles serve an organizing function. In a family, roles sort out each person’s relationship to the group. While there’s nothing inherently wrong […]
Spring Newsletter, 2010
DOWNLOAD THIS ARTICLE AND MORE AS A PDF FILE by clicking this link: Spring Newsletter, 2010 Do We All Have ADHD (Or Does It Just Seem Like It)? We all have friends or coworkers who just can’t seem to sit still or stay focused. “I must have undiagnosed ADHD,” they joke. When you get right down […]
Winter Newsletter, 2009
DOWNLOAD THIS ARTICLE AND MORE AS A PDF FILE by clicking this link: Winter Newsletter, 2009 New Year’s Resolutions: How To Make Them So You Can Keep Them For the past four years, Betty has made a New Year’s Resolution to exercise more. She’s also vowed to lose weight (an annual resolution since 2000), and to […]
Fall Newsletter, 2009
DOWNLOAD THIS ARTICLE AND MORE AS A PDF FILE by clicking this link: Fall 2009 Newsletter When Depression is Mild At some time, nearly every person experiences feelings of depression—sadness, discouragement, the blues. These are common, normal feelings that come and go—mild depressions that can be seasonal or event-related. Depression becomes an illness when symptoms […]
Summer 2009
DOWNLOAD THIS ARTICLE AND MORE AS A PDF FILE by clicking this link: Summer Newsletter How to Support Your Own Happiness When you were little and the teacher asked what you wanted to be when you grew up, you surely didn’t answer “miserable!” At every stage in life, unhappiness is not a state to which […]
Spring Newsletter
DOWNLOAD THIS ARTICLE AND MORE AS A PDF FILE by clicking this link Spring 2009 Managing Financial Anxiety Managing Financial Anxiety Sarah is a self-employed hair stylist who’s watched her business decrease by 50 percent. She’s cut expenses, but is stuck in a costly lease she can’t afford. She’s also worried about losing her home, […]
Winter Newsletter
DOWNLOAD THIS ARTICLE AND MORE AS A PDF FILE by clicking this link: Thriving: A journal of wellbeing – WINTER 2008 Changing Relationships: Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents With people living longer than ever before, more and more individuals find themselves sandwiched between caring for their children and caring for their […]
Fall Newsletter
DOWNLOAD THIS ARTICLE AND MORE AS A PDF FILE by clicking this link: Thriving: A Journal of Wellbeing – FALL 2008 COPING WITH CHANGE The world seems to be changing at an extraordinary pace. We get used to the way things are, and then they shift. That change can be unsettling; even positive change can throw […]
LOVE IS FRIENDSHIP THAT HAS CAUGHT FIRE
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future but doesn’t brood over the past. It’s the […]