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Helping a Child with Autism Thrive
As a parent with an autistic child, there is a lot you can do to help them overcome their challenges. However, you need to be emotionally and …
3 Tips for Addressing Chronic or Frequent Urinary Tract Irritation
If you or anyone you know has suffered with a urinary tract infection, then you are aware that burning, urgency, frequency, and irritation are often …
Bed Rest is Particularly Dangerous for Seniors
Not all of our honored elders end up spending an extended time in the hospital, but when one of them does, there are certain things that we should …
How to Adapt to Age Related Sensory Decline
Glasses and Hearing Aides and Walkers, oh My! Before I was 40 years old, I vowed if I ever needed reading glasses they would never hang on a lanyard …
Meditation, Mindfulness, and Maturity: The Benefits of Meditation for Seniors
May is National Meditation Month, and in honor of that, I want to take a closer look at meditation in general, and what benefits it might have for …
It’s Winter: Let’s Talk Hibernation with our Honored Elders
Growing old comes with a wide variety of changes in our bodies and brains, and those changes cause a number of predictable shifts in habits, traits, …
Life Help
Why does it take a crisis in someone else’s life for us to take stock of our own?
Never Take Anyone or Anything for Granted! My friend’s husband died instantly from a massive heart attack in mid-November. He was just 71 years-old. This is my 5th girlfriend in recent years who has lost her spouse …
How to Make Gratitude an Attitude
A lot is known about gratitude and how beneficial it is for happiness and wellbeing. I previously wrote a post about its benefits and provided some suggestions for developing a gratitude habit. Link. …
Helping a Child with Autism Thrive
As a parent with an autistic child, there is a lot you can do to help them overcome their challenges. However, you need to be emotionally and physically strong to help them. Granted, caring for yourself is not optional, …
How Too Much Generosity Weakens You and Your Relationship
“Generosity” has so many positive connotations it is hard to imagine the term as an action which may damage either the giver or receiver of someone’s generosity. When unending generosity starts to emotionally …
On Gratitude and Dwelling in Possibility
Recently, I went to an outdoor concert with some friends. Mavis Staples, a fabulous gospel singer in her seventies, was the headliner. There was no formal seating for this concert and by the time my friends and I …
Add Self-Respect to Your Repertoire
With self-respect as your guidepost, many relationship dilemmas, crossroads, emotional hurt, sadness and anguish, are either avoidable, shorter lived, and will definitely feel less overwhelming. A major part of …
Divorce
Divorce Talk with Your Children
Parents are usually at a loss when talking to their children about an impending divorce. What do you say? When is the perfect time? The experts say that you should sit with your children and tell them together that you …
Trust After Relationship Deception
It is possible to love someone, believe you are being loved in return, and either gradually or suddenly be handed the surprise of lies, broken promises, verbal aggression, or financial fraud by your supposed …
Preparing For Your Actual Date of Divorce
After possibly years of reflecting, discussing, evaluating circumstances, planning the best time for your divorce, as well as dedicating time and energy to negotiate a fair and reasonable settlement for both sides, your …
Visit to Divorce Court
I’ve have the honor of working with a University of Pennsylvania graduate student. She’s been doing my marketing and has created a powerful social media appearance for her favorite divorce coach! She found herself …
Divorce Prep School
Consider this…You want to get divorced. For every other significant transition in life, a thoughtful plan is recommended, some more extensive than others. But nothing is done without a plan. Too risky without one! …
A Heart Healthy Way to Divorce
We associate Valentine’s Day with roses, chocolate hearts and greeting cards as sweet and gooey as the candy. Love becomes that ubiquitous four-letter word heard in almost every corner of our country – all …