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Want to End Toxic Anxiety Forever? As my husband, Bob, wound his way through his struggle with cancer, worry and anxiety were his biggest enemies. With a wife who is a psychotherapist, close friends and care givers who were warm-hearted, experienced and spiritually-oriented, we all tried to help him move past worry and anxiety. We wanted him…
Ilene in Anxiety, Emotions, Health, Life
Good Nutrition—and Creativity—Can Help with Autism! Don’t you just love the double meaning of this young man’s YouTube show and cookbook? Every one of us has challenges in life. But, as my friend, motivational speaker W. Mitchell, has said, “It’s not what happens to you that matters; it’s what you do about it.” The delight of…
Ilene in Accomplishment, Children, Emotions, Everyday Life, Freedom, Health, Life, Parenting
Emotions of Trauma Can Be Healed. When I saw the promise: “How 5000 Veterans Used the Ancient Secrets of Yoga and Mindfulness to Reclaim Their Lives from Stress, and How You Can, Too” I acted to bring the developer and director of Operation Boot Strap to Full Power Living. If PTSD from war can be eased…
Ilene in Accomplishment, Children, Emotions, Everyday Life, Family, Healing, Health, Life, Men, Parenting, Women
Oct 6, Ora Nadrich: Says Who? (Just One Simple Question) Use One Question to Get Yourself to a New Place. As a psychotherapist with over 44 years of experience, I have noted that one of the most difficult things for human beings to do is to move themselves from where they are, over to where they…
Ilene in Accomplishment, Emotions, Everyday Life, Health, Metaphysical
What Makes Healing an “Inside Job”? Actually, in my learning, ALL of life is an “inside job”. In one way, that makes things difficult. But in others, it streamlines everything. That’s because it means that the ONLY person we need to work with and change is our own self! Once we create change in ourselves, change…
Ilene in Children, Emotions, Everyday Life, Family, Health, Metaphysical
The Association of Health Care Journalists reported this information: A report from Alzheimer’s Association, entitled “2014 Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures.” paints a stark picture about what lies ahead for many older adults. More than 5 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s and related dementia; 200,000 are suffering from early onset (under age 65).…
Ilene in Aging, Emotions, Everyday Life, Family, Health, Life, Men, Women
Were you with us, a few years back, when I talked with Michael Brown about his “Presence Process,” a step-by-step approach to making deep personal change? He calls intimacy “into-me-and-see.” Were you with us, later, when I talked with Michael Brown about “The Radiance of Intimacy,” in which he asserted our work with intimacy as…
Ilene in Animals, Emotions, Everyday Life, Health, Psychology, Spirituality
What Happens When Your Antibiotics Don’t Work? It’s been somewhere close to 40 years since I took an antibiotic prescribed by a doctor. Instead, I’ve cultivated the use of vitamins and herbs that have worked for me to allow my body to resist the development of colds and flus (and other types of “infection”). But that’s…
Ilene in Children, Emotions, Health, Men, Women
Aug 18, Andria Corso, Fear to Flow: Life Unfolding Perfectly Stress is a very big part of modern life. Stress, we are told, comes from the constant (or near-constant) stimulation of our fear response. The fear response can be triggered through our own imagination: most of the anxiety and fear with which we live every…
Ilene in Emotions, Fear, Health, Joy, Life, Peace, Relationships
Are you like the millions of people who go through their daily lives choked with emotions, which they attempt to push down in order to accomplish those lives? This causes what our FPL guest this week refers to as “emotional mud.” Pinckley says that too many us are “clogged with fear, frustration, anger, anxiety, hurt…
Ilene in Emotions, Everyday Life, Family, Health, Joy, Life, Peace
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