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Three Ways To Immediately Connect With People And Stay Present Longer
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Three Ways To Immediately Connect With People And Stay Present Longer
The best way I can describe the emotional tone in the room was “contained and intense,” as I prepared to facilitate a group of caregivers for patients living with aplastic anemia and other bone marrow failure diseases.
An hour earlier I had delivered an interactive presentation for patients and caregivers about […]
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Estranged From Your Adult Child: The Last Thing You Ever Expected
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Estranged From Your Adult Child: The Last Thing You Ever Expected
Holidays, birthdays and other family-oriented times of the year can be a time of heartache for parents whose adult children have cut them off — and the growing phenomenon is much more common than our idealized notions about family would have us believe.
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Cultivate Your “Inner Gourmet” with Mindful Eating
Cultivate Your “Inner Gourmet” with Mindful Eating
A diagnosis of diabetes can feel like a death sentence. I remember observing the faces of the participants in a diabetes education program, as the nutritionist described how to manage their blood glucose by controlling portions and by eating more nominally-processed foods and fewer sweets, sugary beverages and baked goods.
Although the participants were well aware of the need to make […]
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Can’t Meditate? Try Mindfulness in Motion
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Can’t Meditate? Try Mindfulness in Motion
I don’t remember anything about my very first yoga class, there at the downtown YMCA in Nashville — even though I had an excellent beginning yoga teacher — she’d even been Dolly Parton’s private yoga teacher. I don’t remember a thing about the class, except that there was a guided relaxation at the end and I remember thinking afterwards, […]
