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Want to know what the “power of now” is like in children’s terms?  Our peppy co-host, Deki Fox will start off our interview with Bob Friedman, co-author with Eckhart Tolle, of Milton’s Secret, the story of a young boy who is bullied and learns to deal with his fear through the power of the present.  [...]

 
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06/07/07 Thursday 9am to 10am Pacific Time
No More Pain author Vicki Freund Duffy shared her personal quest to overcome a little-known (certainly little-talked-about) affliction, Self-Injury. Cutting, stabbing, burning, picking scabs, scratching, head-banging: humans are inventive when it comes to figuring out ways to injure themselves. But why would anyone self-injure? Who does? In one survey, [...]

 
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Two young boys who last week lived in the same county have come to my attention this week. One, whom we will call “K.B.,” is 6 and has set off a huge chain of retribution by taking his father’s jack knife to school. The other, Raijon Daniels, was 8. He died this [...]

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Today’s “front page” on AOL contains an article about “happy slapping,” the humiliating “game” of punching, hitting or slapping someone, unexpectedly, and having the incident filmed (with video camera or cell phone) and publicized on the Internet. Largely perpetrated by teens, according to this report, and inspired by several television shows, “Happy Slapping” got [...]

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Sharing Emotions

It’s come up more than once in the past week, so it’s time to revisit this topic again!
Many years ago, as part of my healing as a “Recovering Angry Person,” I realized that whenever I feel angry (and especially the hurt that is always underneath), I must deal with it, upfront. If I don’t, [...]

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