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Life Coach Notes: Post Holiday Resting?
I am remiss in taking so long to write this, but I’ve been a bit busy. I’m going to role-reverse and share a bit from my life first. During the course of the last two months, my Paleo food plan went missing and my daily exercise program ran away from me. My daily meditation and…
Read MoreThe “Other” A.D.D.: Addiction, Depression and Divorce and an Emotionally Intelligent Curriculum for Prevention, Expression and Connection
Addiction, depression and divorce…oh my! Like the unknown yellow brick road into the Land of Oz, confronting these three maladies can be very scary. And, from the statistics you’re about to see, apparently not important enough for us to put more resources into the prevention thereof. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse: The…
Read MoreThe Lost Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Should On Thyself
I should do that. I should’ve done that. I shouldn’t have done that. You should do that. You should’ve done that. You shouldn’t have done that. They should do that. They should’ve done that. They shouldn’t have done that. There’s a lot of “shoulding” going on these days. How odd, then,…
Read MoreWe Are (Probably) ALL Addicts
My team warned me NOT to write this. In fact, they threatened to quit if I did. See ya, guys; there’s the door. I’m writing it anyways! (They’re full of idle threats, and I know they’re just watching out for me!) We are (probably) ALL addicts. So there, I said it (actually wrote it, but…
Read MoreWhat IS Addiction?
When you put “addiction” into the almighty Google search engine window, you’ll see that there are “about 166,000,000 results.” That’s a lot of places online where the word addiction shows up. Aside from Wikipedia (no offense, guys), which seems to get itself as the first listing most of the time, Psychology Today is the top…
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