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5 Ways to Connect with Your Valentine
This Valentine’s Day, celebrate your relationship and commit to nurture a heartfelt connection. Remember when you first fell in love? Depending on how we treat each other, those deep feelings can continue throughout our lives. Neural functions change when we’re more compassionate. And holding hands is enough to reduce stress. The possibilities for opening up our hearts are endless: Express gratitude. If you notice a caring gesture or a job well done, why not mention it? You may be pleasantly surprised at what you get back in return. Inject humor. … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, emotions, gratitude, love, relationships, resolve conflict, stress, valentines day
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Millennials and the Holiday Spirit
Although it may be the holiday season, as far as presents go that doesn’t mean a whole lot to Millennials. Like so many other issues, they have their own ideas about gift giving. Apparently what they want is cash, mostly to pay down college costs and other debt. So much for the negative stereotype that those born between 1980 and 2000 are lazy and have a sense of entitlement. Millennials are laboring under a collective $1 trillion in debt from student loans and still struggling to find jobs. Yet … Continue reading
Childfree and Loving It
Way back when I was young, DINKs (Dual Income No Kids) were a cultural anomaly. In fact, parenthood was synonymous with adulthood. And the issues around being ‘childless’ were discussed in hushed tones. Here it is 52 years after the advent of birth control and ‘childfree’ is the new buzzword. Women who are opting out of motherhood are speaking up loud and clear. According to recent surveys, over 40% of college-educated Generation X women (born between 1965 and 1980) are childfree. These women were part of the first generation that … Continue reading
Posted in intimate partner, stress, well-being, your self
Tagged adulthood, birth control, career, child-free, childless, DINK, feminist movement, glass ceiling, motherhood, relationships
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Kids as Orchids or Dandelions
We know the statistics: about 20% of American children today grow up in deprived circumstances – poverty, social isolation, chaotic home life, surrounded by drugs, alcohol, or gangs. Unfortunately many of them repeat this dysfunctional process as they begin to have behavioral problems themselves. What we don’t understand is how some of the children are able to overcome their poor environment and develop into resilient kids and young adults. A recent study has considered why some babies seem to be able to tolerate the lack of a nurturing environment better … Continue reading
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Tagged at risk, babies, caregiver, children, family, kids, parents, poverty, relationships, resilience, support
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