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by guest blogger Stephanie Silberman, author of The Insomnia Workbook
During the holiday season, many people find themselves sleep-deprived. The reasons for lack of sleep can be positive or negative. Although staying up late at parties, eating and drinking a lot, and having friends and family over at your house can be a significant source of fun and pleasure and something that you’ve looked forward to for quite some time, it can also lead you to deprive yourself of much needed sleep. On the other hand, if the holidays are causing you to feel stressed due to financial concerns, tension at family get-togethers, or other similar reasons, you may be lying in bed at night wishing the holidays were over already so that you could go back to sleeping better. Although it’s quite common to have trouble sleeping during stressful periods of your life, insomnia can easily turn from a short-term problem into a chronic one. Before letting poor sleep affect both your physical and mental well-being, try these simple tips to improve your sleep this holiday season.
by guest blogger Colleen E. Carney, Ph.D., co-author of Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep
So you are lying awake and you can’t shut off your thoughts…sound familiar?
You are in good company. Not being able to shut off your mind is one of the most commonly cited troubles in insomnia. But many people do not have effective strategies to deal with this pesky problem.
The most common “strategy” in popular culture is to count sheep. So is it effective? Let’s first consider why someone would recommend that you count sheep to help you set aside your thoughts and go to sleep. While some believe it is an activity that would promote such boredom as to facilitate sleep, there is probably a better explanation.
Excerpt from The Whole Body Workbook for Cancer
The most important advice is that if you have cancer, or any major health challenge, don’t to try to do it all alone. Carefully choose a team of professionals and try to weave them into a support net for your healing process. A complementary health care provider—whether a medical doctor, osteopath, chiropractor, naturopath, or acupuncturist—can play an important role on your team. The stereotype of an untrained quack exploiting desperate, gullible late-stage patients is much less common than imagined. Work with your loved ones too.
by guest blogger Judith L. London, Ph.D., author of Connecting the Dots
Hope. That is not a word that people often associate with Alzheimer’s. However, for the five million people in the U.S. with this illness, over 10 million unpaid caregivers and the many millions more involved in ancillary care, there are bright spots.
excerpt from The Anger Workbook for Kids
It is important to become aware of situations that make you angry, to notice what you do when you get angry, and to recognize the consequences of your anger. An anger log is a tool to help you do all that.
Excerpt from Coping with Cliques
Starting Off… When the gossip mill gets going, it can suddenly switch into high gear and get mean and nasty in no time at all, so it’s important to be careful about these gossip sessions. And remember, what your friends in the clique say about you, they just might say behind your back. Once that starts, you never know when the tone will shift and you’ll become the butt of their verbal jabs. Here’s Kara in action again. Read the following scenarios and then answer the questions after each one.
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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Excerpt from Eating the Moment
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