Triumphing after a Troubled Childhood
Today’s research is showing that many of the troubles adults are having stem from unresolved pain from childhood. Yet some adults go on to lead satisfying productive lives after experiencing horrendous...
View ArticleA Unique Process for Self-Healing
Many of the maladies people endure today seem to appear out of nowhere and to require aggressive medical treatment for any hope of relief. But new understanding of how the mind, body, and spirit work...
View ArticleHow About Rethinking Everything?
Do you sometimes get the feeling that a lot of what you were taught or picked up along the way from experts about life, family, parenting, marriage, sex, love, and kids is not really useful or true?...
View ArticleWho Is Guarding Our Food Quality?
Recent news revealed that excessive arsenic is in some baby foods because of pesticide residues in some American rice farms. With news like that, how can families make informed choices about what they...
View ArticleNever Too Early to Learn Wellness
With the epidemic of obesity in children, with studies showing that even our youngest kids are suffering from stress and emotional problems and the early onset of conditions once thought a product of...
View ArticleCan Parents Get in the Zone?
Athletes have their zone, writers have their flow, children have their play – are these related? Is there a zone for parents? What if parents could parent from a place of self-less absorption and...
View ArticleThe Value of Creative Arts in the Home
Creative art programs are being cut in schools to save money, and kids are being sucked into digital worlds designed by someone else for their recreation. What happened to crayons and colored pencils,...
View ArticleA Powerful Female Role Model
We often hear how our young people lack role models to inspire them not only to be ambitious but also to follow ethical and spiritual principles in their careers and lives. Especially for young women...
View ArticleHelp for the Adoptive Family
Many couples today are looking into adopting a child, and most of us know some one who has considered adopting, either domestically or internationally. Often would-be adoptive parents are faced with...
View ArticleNew Leadership Challenges for Youth
The challenges of this century, including the new global economy, continued erosion of American manufacturing, growth of other economies, and profound changes in the very fabric of society, have...
View ArticleA Life After Death Experience
Each of us has our own relationship with our Creator which we develop from our parents, our church experience, our community and culture, and our own personal experience. One of the issues all humans...
View ArticleHow to Protect Your Child from Phone Radiation
Today there are five billion cell phones in use. 80% of Europeans use them and 50% of Americans, more every day. With reports of health risks from cell phone radiation mounting, including a recent WHO...
View ArticleChild-Rearing: Back to Basics
Parenting seems to be in crisis today. The court case in Mississippi now in the news about an assistant school principal paddling a child who was seriously injured when he fainted afterwards, is...
View ArticleWhat Parents Need to Know About ADHD
More and more children today are being diagnosed with learning disabilities, and at earlier and earlier ages. Schools have difficulty meeting the needs of kids with learning differences, and some kids...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Having a Family Business
Even before this recession, start-ups of family businesses were at an all time high. Now in this economy when many are being downsized from corporate jobs, more families are considering becoming...
View ArticleResolving anger in the family
Parents have lots to feel upset about today, with pressure from the economy, pressure from jobs, pressure from the normal responsibilities at home which don’t diminish with these other added pressures,...
View ArticleEmpowering Children Through Their Heritage
In our fast-changing society today, many kids feel a bit adrift and their self-confidence can suffer. One of the most powerful ways to help them find their way is to help them reconnect with their...
View ArticleHow to Comfort a Dying Loved One
The largest generation ever is now in middle age and many of them are caring for elderly parents who are in their final transition. When your loved one asks, “What’s going to happen to me when I die?”...
View ArticleKeeping Kids’ Summertime Healthy
As summer approaches are looking forward to freedom and the outdoors and a more easy-going lifestyle. Maybe there will be a family road trip and interesting adventures! Meanwhile parents are wondering...
View ArticleA Unique Travel Adventure with Family
What do you do when you want a complete change in your life? Many people today are talking about a midlife crisis, or even a quarter life crisis. Our current economic recession has many people thinking...
View ArticleThe Resilient Family
There’s an awful lot of doom and gloom out there for families to contemplate. With persistent national and personal debt, shrinking resources, climate change, malnutrition along side of obesity, and...
View ArticleParenting in the Real World
Today parents face the complexities of multiple work responsibilities, school and afterschool activities, extended family duties, supervision of digital connections, health and more. We all want to do...
View ArticleHow to Create Togetherness
In today’s society we’re surrounded by the search for love – in books, in songs, in the movies, on TV, and now on the web – but how many of us know how to find it or even what we are looking for? As...
View ArticleHow to Reclaim Our Innate Health
If you watch a lot of TV you would think that we were programmed to fall apart and that only unnatural chemicals with all kinds of unpleasant and dangerous side effects can keep our bodies and minds...
View ArticlePositive Touch
Today’s news is filled with atrocious cases of child abuse, domestic violence, and sexual abuse. Some parents are so worried that any touch might be misinterpreted that they avoid it. And many schools...
View ArticleEffective family health management
How many times have you or someone in your family gone to the doctor and been unsatisfied with the results? The typical tests ordered may be inconclusive, so that you may look good on paper. Perhaps...
View ArticleTransforming Our Relationships
Have you ever tried to change someone else to make them easier to deal with or more to your liking? Have you sometimes assumed that your own spontaneous reactions to the people around you were the most...
View ArticleMaking Every Move Count
Many of our cities are struggling with misdirected youth and increasing violence, whether over drugs, gangs, or simply explosive frustration. And smaller communities, suburbs, and rural areas are not...
View ArticleKeep Kids Safe on The Road
As our kids go back to school excited about the new year, parents worry about seeing them get into cars. Traffic crashes are the #1 cause of death for all people in the world ages 10 – 24 and for all...
View ArticleDr. Jonathan Brower
It seems that more and more people today are being diagnosed and treated for depression and anxiety. The media advertisements for pharmaceuticals for these emotional states have increased dramatically....
View ArticleOur Adrenaline Nation
Do you or someone close sometimes feel that you are never quite good enough or don’t quite measure up? Most Americans feel bombarded by constant messages that they must work harder, learn more, and be...
View ArticleWhat Buy USA Made Can Mean for You
Are social media a distraction and obsession or can they be a force for positive change? Will our children waste time and energy and become sleep deprived searching yet another site, or go into debt...
View ArticleWhat Can The Dying Teach Us About Living?
As our population ages, an ever bigger proportion of our population will be dealing with end of life issues. What can we learn from the experience of those dying? What can they teach us about life as...
View ArticleWhat Peace Day Means for Family
Our children are exposed daily to news of violence, war, fleeing refugees, children orphaned by conflict. How do we help empower them to believe they can be part of making the world a safer, fairer,...
View ArticleMaking Divorce a Healthier Process
At least half of our nation’s families have been touched by divorce. The high costs and stress on family members of completing the divorce process is legendary, especially if the process involves...
View ArticleEnergizing Your Family’s Fall Season
Does the end of summer have you feeling drained? Many parents look forward to the summer to do things with the children and be free of school and sports schedules. But then by the end of summer they...
View ArticleIncorrigible to Incredible: Some Dog Lessons
Some relationships are more difficult than others. Sometimes a friend or even a child can be difficult to handle. They can try your patience and seem incorrigible. Can we learn some tricks from our...
View ArticleStress – The Missing Diagnosis
If you ask someone if they have any stress, they either roll their eyes saying, “Doesn’t everybody?” or they laugh saying, “Who me?” We all have stressors in our lives, at home, at work, even on our...
View ArticleHelping Kids with School Struggles
When a child struggles to learn, it can snowball into a much bigger problem. Parents worry about behavior in school, social skills, math, reading, and writing problems, organizational challenges, how...
View ArticleNatural Ways to Help Prevent Cardio Problems
Today people are still dying of cardiovascular problems after almost a century of research. Predictors include elevated blood pressure, cholesterol, and tryglycerides, so pharmaceutical companies have...
View ArticleRadical Unschooling
We hear a lot about how our educational systems are flawed and are both failing our kids and stressing our economy at the local, state, and federal levels. It may be that we have demanded far too much...
View ArticleRecovering from Emotional Neglect
As a society we are concerned about the trauma of childhood abuse or spousal abuse witnessed by children, about bullying, and about parental neglect, when kids are left on their own with little...
View ArticleDealing with Parental Anger
When parents are angry and frustrated, and feel they can’t take any more from their kids, they usually either blow their stack and then regret it later, or try to control themselves by holding it all...
View ArticleDrug-Free Help for ADHD
More and more kids are being identified as having attention deficits. Often it is assumed that ADHD is a biological imbalance which requires medication to control. But drugs don’t solve the core...
View ArticleEnding the Special Ed Stigma
How can a parent or teacher communicate to a child who has been identified as having learning differences or needing special education that they are still okay and have a great future ahead of them?...
View ArticlePreventing Colds and Flu
What happens around holiday time when so many people have cold or flue symptoms? How can you avoid them or limit their effects? Cold and flu are the most common infections that affect Americans....
View ArticleParenting Resolutions for 2013!
Parenting is perhaps the most important activity in all of human existence. And it can be incredibly difficult, worrisome, and exhausting, as well as exhilarating, fulfilling, and joyful. Are there...
View ArticleTalking with Teens
Many parents feel anxious as their children approach the teenage years. Parents worry about peer pressure, losing their influence, being able to communicate effectively with their teens, wondering if...
View ArticleEating Your Way to Better Sex
You can’t watch TV long without seeing an ad for a drug for enhancing sexual function. Sexual dysfunction is on the increase, but it’s not because we are all getting older or we need more drugs....
View ArticleWhy Powerful Men Risk It All
Why would powerful men like General David Petraeus cheat and risk so much? We are often puzzled when famous men who seem to have it all, like public acclaim, professional success, and a loving family,...
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