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Sandwich Generation: Nurture Yourself

All week we’ve been talking about how to stay centered and nourish yourself on Valentine’s Day. But don’t save these practical strategies for just one day a year. Use them often and they’ll become second nature. Relax and rejuvenate to relieve stress. Nurture yourself and your body through regular exercise, good nutrition and proper rest. Attend to your mind and your spirit. Practice techniques of deep breathing or your own form of meditation. And set aside quiet time to do what brings you pleasure. This sort of attitude will sustain … Continue reading

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Sandwich Generation: Make it Happen

As Valentine’s Day approaches, you don’t have to feel down in the dumps. If you’re single and a member of the Sandwich Generation, do you have an aging parent who’s not feeling so well or an adult chld who’s going through a rough period? Reach out and see what happens to you when you bring a smile to their face. Give back some love. Go outside your normal routine and get in touch with a relative or neighbor you’ve been meaning to call or visit – it could brighten the … Continue reading

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Tears Strengthen Personal Relationships

A Tel Aviv University evolutionary biologist says that tears have emotional benefits and can strengthen interpersonal relationships. Crying is known to be a symptom of physical pain or stress. New analysis by Dr. Oren Hasson shows that tears still signal physiological distress, but they also bring people closer together. He investigated the use of tears in different emotional and social circumstances. He concluded that tears are used to elicit mercy, sympathy and assistance from others. Emotional tears also signal appeasement, attachment and grief. By blurring vision, tears signal feelings of … Continue reading

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Staycation Moonsets

Ever since we bought our first grandson the classic children’s book, Guess How Much I Love You, a week after he was born, the moon has been a symbol unifying our three young grandsons, who live two thousand miles away, and us. We used to read to them, tucked snugly on our laps, about how the mother hare loved her baby, “all the way to the moon and back,” and spread our arms as wide as we could showing how much we loved them. As they grew older, we would … Continue reading

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