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Grieving a Disability

May 29, 2015 in Counseling

Are you often sad or angry about your disability? Do you ask yourself: am I ever going to get the ability back? How am I going to adapt to this new stage in my life? And most importantly, how am I going to continue engaging in the same activities that I have already started doing? For people with disabilities, learning how to cope with the loss of an ability or acquiring a disability can be very difficult. Some find the task of learning how to cope with an inability to be so overwhelming that they give up on other aspects of their lives. However, with the help of... Read more

Care and Feeding for a Superior Brain

May 13, 2015 in Health/Wellness

During the whole history of research on the human brain, scientists believed that the brain stopped making new neural connections when the body stopped developing. And doctors knew that neurons, just like any other part of the body, weaken as people age. Loss of brain function due to neural breakdown related to aging was assumed to be normal and unavoidable.  They were wrong.

It is now known that the brain remains plastic throughout your life span and that it is a “use it or lose it” system.  It is neither a machine that breaks down with too much use nor is ... Read more

Problem Solving For Stress Reduction

February 21, 2015 in Counseling

Stress kills. This has become commonly accepted and is generally agreed on by experts and laypersons alike.  A major source of stress for people these days is worry which can be defined as the process of repeatedly asking yourself, “What if …?”  Fill in the blank with any bad thing you can imagine.  For some people, asking “What if?” can be a good motivator but for most, it is the doorway to sleepless nights, chronic anxiety and an increased likelihood of developing health problems.

Worry focuses the ... Read more

What is Success?

February 16, 2015 in motivational

For many of of us the principles of success are elusive. We spend much of our time and effort chasing and creating a successful life. How do we know when we become successful? Is it wrapped up in a feeling, a knowing? What is it and how will we know it?

Success is not the same for everyone. It is defined by each individual’s unique personality. We often forget this as we are bombarded by today’s distractions and allurements. Our attention is riveted to the successes imprinted on our mind’s eye of other successful people. These can b... Read more

TANSTAAFL

February 11, 2015 in motivational

For readers familiar with Robert Heinlein, the title of this article will make immediate sense.  For everyone else, it is short hand for “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” – and there really isn’t.  You pay for everything you get one way or another and the coin is frequently counted in blood, sweat and tears not money.  The important thing to focus on is whether what you are paying for is what you actually want.

Many times, we have only a fuzzy, general idea of what we want out of life. And even then, things could generally wo... Read more