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What Do Women Want?
What Do Women Want?
When Jennifer Newton, editor of M.D. Update, recently asked me to weigh in on this perennial question, I enjoyed tackling the #1 women’s issue I encounter and other “outside the box” approaches to women’s most common dilemmas. (more…)
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Love Sick: An Unhappy Marriage Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
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Love Sick: An Unhappy Marriage Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
Does the quality of your romantic relationship affect your health? As it turns out, the answer is yes. Thanks to the work of marriage researchers, we now know that an unhappy marriage can increase your chances of getting sick by 35 percent and even shorten your life by an average of four years! The flip side: People who are […]
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Mindfulness: How it helps with food, eating and body image problems
Mindfulness: How it helps with food, eating and body image problems
When I work with clients that overeat from stress, emotion or tension, I find mindfulness-based therapy to be a powerful approach to treating problems with food, eating and body image. What is mindfulness? How does it work? (more…)
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The Grief Journey: Healing Rituals For The Holidays
The Grief Journey: Healing Rituals For The Holidays
Grieving the death of someone important to you is one of life’s most difficult transitions. And one of the most difficult periods of that transition is the first holiday season when someone you love isn’t there. It includes a grieving of the here-and-now absence of that person, as well as grieving for future losses.
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Stressed Out? Walk Around In The Woods
Stressed Out? Walk Around In The Woods
When my husband suggested we do a Tauck Tour called “John Muir’s California” – which started and ended in San Francisco, with Muir Woods, Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks in between – I was a little disappointed. I was thinking Italy, actually. (more…)
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Five Good Things About Aging
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Five Good Things About Aging
When I was in graduate school, one of my most memorable experiences was with a woman whose name or face I don’t remember. She was a guest speaker from one of the eldercare organizations in town. She gave each of us the following exercise:
‘Write down the five things that you most value in your life – whether it’s your […]
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware’s book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying – A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing is a memoir of her work in palliative care with patients who had gone home to die. “I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives,” she says. “People grow a lot when they are faced […]
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Surprising Foods That Help Keep Weight Off As You Age
Surprising Foods That Help Keep Weight Off As You Age
What’s the best way to keep weight off as you age? The newest research suggests that the conventional weight loss wisdom — to eat everything in moderation, eat fewer calories and avoid fatty food — isn’t the best approach to keeping weight off over the years.
In the most thorough and long-term study about age-related weight gain to date, Harvard University […]