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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
the waiting game

Excerpt from Walking After Midnight


I love being in the center of the busy energy in our home. However, I hold my breath every time the phone rings. I know at any moment the police could call to say there has been some activity on the criminal investigation, and our lives will be thrown into a tailspin.


I agonize over how the waiting must be affecting families on the other side of the tragedy. Surely parents have seen loved teenagers change over the last two years as they have tried to push the events of New Year’s Eve 1997 far, far down into the realm of forgotten memory. I imagine those parents watching in isolation, fearing something horrible has happened to pull the light from their children’s eyes, but having no idea what it was.

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Monday, May 10, 2010
how do you process grief?

Excerpt from Grief’s Courageous Journey


Grief is a highly personal response to life losses. Every relationship we have with a person is unique, irreplaceable, and unrepeatable. Since our relationships are unique, our grief is unique, too.


There are no road maps, no blueprints for grief.


It is always a mistake to judge how another person is expressing grief.


Instead of judging, we must be very patient and accept the uniqueness of ever individual’s grief process, including our own.

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Posted By / 9:00 AM / Monday, May 10, 2010
Thursday, May 06, 2010
treating fevers

excerpt from The Holistic Baby Guide


Treating your baby’s fever and acute symptoms at home is easy enough. The goal of treatment is to encourage healing and stimu¬late a strong immune response. Reducing the fever is not the goal, as the fever will do what is necessary to fight the illness. Natural remedies will encourage the fight.


The first and easiest remedy to try is homeopathic Belladonna. The classical indications for Belladonna are fever with sudden onset, radiating heat, and flushing and redness of the skin. There may be redness (indicating inflammation) at some specific location in the body: in the throat, the ears, the eyes, the skin—pretty much anywhere. Older children will complain of a headache. Babies who need Belladonna are often quiet and subdued, moaning and very hot to touch. Or they may be crying with discomfort. Belladonna is indicated before significant discharge develops with a cold or other symptoms appear later in an illness that would point the way to another remedy.


If babies are very uncomfortable and screaming in apparent pain, then you may want to try giving homeopathic Chamomilla. Often one dose will calm your baby and allow her to get back to sleep.

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Posted By / 9:00 AM / Thursday, May 06, 2010
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
what is a good relationship?

excerpt from The Joy of Parenting


Take a moment to think about the relationships in your life that are most important to you – those in which you feel closest to someone else. What is it about those relationships that you most value? Take a few moments and jot down your thoughts about this in your parenting journal.


If you’re like many parents, one of the valued characteristics you listed may have been “feeling heard.” When we’re very lucky, we find ourselves in relationships in which people “get” us – they have a solid understanding of our wants, desires, and dreams. They communicate that understanding in how they behave around us – by calling our attention to things we care about or being thoughtful without being asked and without expecting anything in return. Because these things are important to you, you won’t be surprised that these same attributes are probably what your child most values and trusts about her relationship with you.


Taking time to nurture a relationship like this with your child is important. After all, you’re the “base” from which your child ventures out into the world. You ensure his safety and offer a lens through which he will views other important relationships throughout his life. You show your young child how to be in the world by the way you relate to and behave with him. And that is an enormous responsibility – as well as an exquisite gift.

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Posted By / 9:00 AM / Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
take excellent care of yourself

Excerpt from The Balanced Mom


Do what you can to prevent these signs of burnout. Ask yourself, “How full is my tank?” Picture a scale from 1 to 10 on which 1 is feeling consumed by signs of burnout and 10 is feeling joyful, balanced, and peaceful. Your goal is to stay between a 7 and a 10. Where are you today? Check in with yourself on a regular basis and incorporate the necessary changes to keep your tank filled.


Here are some ways to do it:

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Posted By / 9:00 AM / Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
being at home in the moment

excerpt from The Mindful Woman


I vividly remember a time when I completely understood what the Buddha meant about seeing the miracle of single flower being life changing. My husband, Gene, and I had a trans-Pacific-ocean courtship. To help bridge the miles, he once sent me red roses. After my sons were asleep, I took the time to luxuriate in every aspect of the fullest rose, exploring its textures, colors, and the varying shapes of petals, stem, and stamen. To my surprise, tears of joy began to slip from my eyes, and I felt enveloped in love and connected to both the man who sent the roses and their creator as well.


Although my rapt attention to the flower was the act of a young woman wildly in love, the experience of it has become an enduring touchstone reminding me of the power and joy a few mindful moments can bring. Thirty-some years later, I clearly remember that particular rose and can revisit the pro¬found sense of wonder and awe I experienced while focusing on it.

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Posted By / 9:00 AM / Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
developing realistic expectations about sex and your body

Excerpt from Coping with Erectile Dysfunction


It is easier and healthier to deal with physical and psychological changes together rather than in isolation. This is particularly true of ED, which affects you, your partner, and your relationship. To pretend otherwise is to violate a major tenet of mental health: Do not fool yourself. ED is truly your common foe. The likelihood of overcoming ED increases significantly if you work as a team.

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Posted By / 9:00 AM / Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
searching for twinship

excerpt from When Good Men Behave Badly


The healthy awareness of the need for twinship would allow you to say to your wife or partner, You know, I feel really lost sometimes with out all the special times we used to have together. It just seems like having kids and get ting used to each other and money problems have really taken their toll. I guess you must feel the same way. Here you, as a man, shift from needing your partner to be a mirror reflecting you to recognizing the ways in which the two of you are profoundly alike. She is no longer the enemy, but rather a comrade along the difficult road of life. A comrade who is inevitably flawed, but no more fundamentally flawed than you.

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Posted By / 9:00 AM / Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
what is doing the right thing?

excerpt from Do the Right Thing


Let’s talk about five ethical principles that you can use to guide your behavior and decision making in your personal and professional life (regardless of your line of work and living situation). These five principles can help you with both small and big ethical decisions. Subsequent chapters will look at each of the five principles in more detail.


The five basic ethical principles to live by are

  • integrity
  • competence
  • responsibility
  • respect
  • concern.

While these five principles are certainly not cast in stone, they’re useful and productive way to think about how to live your everyday life. They can be applied to just above ethical situation.

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Posted By / 12:50 PM / Thursday, April 22, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
the secrets of the spiritual heart

Excerpt from The Untethered Soul


Very few people understand the heart. In truth, your heart is one of the masterpieces of creation. It is a phenomenal instrument. It has the potential to create vibrations and harmonies that are far beyond the beauty of pianos, strings, or flutes. You can hear an instrument, but you feel your heart. And if you think that you feel an instrument, it’s only because it touched your heart. Your heart is an instrument made of extremely subtle energy that few people come to appreciate.

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Posted By / 9:00 AM / Thursday, April 22, 2010
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