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Articles from October 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
how to help a loved one who hoards

Michael Tompkins, Ph.D., co-author of Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring discusses hoarding and how friends and loved ones can help.

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Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Thursday, October 29, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
four exercises to help deal with food cravings

Excerpt from Eating the Moment

  • Counting Craving Thoughts
  • It’s Just a Craving, for Crying Out Loud!
  • Craving-Control Chair
  • Craving-Control Success Record
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Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Monday, October 26, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
the meaning of commitment and a walk down memory lane

Excerpt from In the Mood, Again

Commitment is promising to share your life with one anther and to remain faithful. Although this can be a bit frightening, you have to admit it is also quite exciting. If your partner possesses attributes that you consider important and you both share a similar value system, why not? You are most likely partnered with your best friend. What can be nicer than sharing your life with your best friend?

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Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Opening Your Heart

Excerpt from Five Good Minutes with the One You Love

Even the busiest people can begin to reconnect with the sources of life and love in a relationship if they learn to inhabit the present moment with sensitive and caring attention. Through simple, mindfulness-based practices for stopping, relaxing, connecting, and staying here, the momentum of hurry and worry becomes less compelling. Something else more precious and sustaining returns. The opportunity for a different experience arises. Exploration of deeper, more positive feelings suddenly seems possible, even easier.

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Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Refining Parenting Practices

Excerpt from Parenting through the Process in Helping Your Child with OCD

Most children with OCD are and want to be “good kids.” Many, however, struggle with anger and irritability. Some have developed a habit of throwing tantrums. Anger and irritability are frequently side effects of living with OCD. Think about it: how do you feel when you are in a room with a radio pounding, people demanding something from you, and a television blaring? Thinking, listening, and functioning are extremely difficult because of all the extraneous noise. In such circumstances you probably feel angry and stressed and want to scream, “Be quiet!” because you can’t hear yourself think. This is similar to how children with OCD frequently feel.

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Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Friday, October 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Video: How to Make Almond Milk

Patty James, MS, co-author of More Vegetables, Please!, shows how to make almond milk.

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Monday, October 12, 2009
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Hoarding

by guest blogger Michael A. Thompkins, Ph.D., author of Digging Out


Over the years, most clinicians and researchers have diagnosed people with a compulsive hoarding problem as having obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), in part, because many people with OCD report some hoarding behaviors. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that it may not be accurate to classify compulsive hoarding as OCD for a number of reasons.

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Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Monday, October 12, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Video: How to Make Salmon Rolls

Patty James, MS, co-author of More Vegetables, Please!, shows how to make salmon rolls.

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Monday, October 05, 2009
Discover That You Don’t Need to Worry

Excerpt from Women Who Worry Too Much

Worry is a catch-22 for many women. It leaves them feeling wound up, on edge, and filled with self-doubt. But at the same time, a part of them secretly believes that they need their worry to manage their lives and ward off disaster. They feel stuck in a never-ending double bind, caught between a rock and a hard place. For this reason, many women find worry to be the less of two evils.

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Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Monday, October 05, 2009
Friday, October 02, 2009
Tackling Turbulence

By guest blogger Duane Brown, Ph.D., author of Flying Without Fear.

Recent airline accidents may have made boarding an airplane more of a challenge for people who are afraid to fly and may have persuaded others that flying should be avoided altogether. The purpose of this note is to examine reports about these accidents and offer advice to fearful fliers.

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Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Friday, October 02, 2009
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