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ARTArticleHome Business Tips - How Working From Home Can Affect Your HealthMost people, when they decide to start working from home will probably not consider their health, either physical or emotional or mental as being at the top of their priority list. Their focus is much more likely to be on the nature of their business, how they might balance work and family life and ultimately how they can make a decent living from the business.rARTArticleHome Business Tips - Identity TheftMost home insurance policies now offer a provision that gives some degree of protection against the risks of identity theft. This is normally included in the insurance policy as standard, or offered as an optional extra at a minimal extra cost. Insurance companies perceive risk of identity theft as being a serious one, and one that can affect the nature of your home and your home insurance quite dramatically.ARTArticleHome Business Tips - Insuring Your HomeAnyone who runs a business of any description needs to make sure that they have certain types of insurance, normally insurance covering areas of property loss and damage, business interruption and loss of earnings and various types of liability insurance. Anyone working from home as well needs to be doubly sure that there is no conflict between their home insurance and the needs of their business, both from an insurance and a practical point of view.ARTArticleHome Business Tips - Personal PossessionsAnyone who works from home or runs a type of business from home is likely to have a significant number of items that they would classify as their personal possessions. These may be items that are normally considered domestic or purely for domestic use, or maybe part of the business work that they do from home or may well be both. The reason this issue is important is that from an insurance point of view, personal possessions are normally covered under a standard homeowners policy which is likely to exclude any type of work or business that is carried out from under the home.ARTArticleHome Business Tips - Working From Home and Leisure TimeMany people, when faced with the reality of working from home tend to approach it in quite a manic way, often with quite a high degree of burnout at some point either physical or mental. They may well be able to work with this burnout as they can adapt their home or family life accordingly.rARTArticleHome BusIness Tips - Working With OthersThe notion of working from home in any capacity or running your own business from home has an implication that it is you alone and no one else. This is often not true and whilst there can be an appeal in the sense of being your own boss and being in control and owning your own time, there is also a realisation that this can lead to quite a high degree of isolation in many ways.
Isolation is not itself a bad thing, but is often the context within which an individual is isolated that can generate problems or open up areas that need to be addressed and that with.rARTArticleHow Much Thought Do You Give to Your Family?The reality of how much time and thought you give to your family is of course in many ways a unique question that can only be answered by the individual themselves. The reason it is so important is because in a significant number of cases the amount of focus that an individual puts on the family is either determined by someone else or driven by a degree of guilt or expectation that is derived from outside themselves.ARTArticleI Need Help Losing WeightWhat is it about losing weight that makes it so hard to stick to? Why are you throwing up your hands and crying “I need help losing weight”? It seems pretty straightforward right: burn more calories than you take in and lose weight over time. So you either increase your exercise routine or you change - and lower - the calories you eat. Hmmm. Maybe it’s not the process. Maybe something else is interfering. Maybe it’s stress.ARTArticleIs It Possible to Have a Healthy Relationship?Maria entered my office crying. She just ended her five year relationship and was understandably upset. In retrospect, she recognized numerous 'red flags' that she tried to overlook throughout the relationship. As she spoke of her anger, hurt, and disappointment, she asked, "Does anyone ever actually have a healthy relationship? I mean, is it even possible?"rARTArticleIs Racing Against Time Really Worth It?I recently came across this quote by Bonnie Friedman “An unhurried sense of time is in itself a sort of wealth”. An unhurried sense of time- is there actually such a thing, or such a person who doesn’t live in constant hurry?
We live in an extremely fast-paced era where our mornings begin with cussing the alarm clock out followed by a granola bar for breakfast while simultaneously tucking the shirt in, and rushing to drop the kids and reach work on time. Phew!ARTArticleLaughing at Workplace StressHard work has a future payoff. Procrastination pays off NOW!
The idea of using humor to enhance business, to increase creativity, to improve relationships, to minimize stress and to develop client attract-ability is not a new one. It’s been around for over twenty-five years. A 1985 survey by the staffing firm, Robert Haft International, concluded that only 15% of employees are fired because of incompetence. The remaining 85% are let go because of lack of people or social skills. They just plain do not get along with others.ARTArticleLeader May Be The Smartest In The Room, But Is Not Smarter Than The RoomA leader knows that he or she may be the smartest person in the room, but isn't smarter than the entire room. Use your team for good ideas.
Leaders have a combination of intelligence, charisma, character and experience. These are very difficult to define and even harder to teach. Which is good, because this article is not about any of these characteristics. It is about personal excellence, but that’s at the end of the article.rARTArticleLetting Go to Think Outside the Box; Insights and a Breakthrough with an Autistic ChildHow often have you had futile thoughts like, “Nothing is working. I feel like I am banging my head against the wall”? And then you surrender the mental strife, you “Let Go and let God”, “Cast your fate to the wind”, think “What will be, will be”, and to your amazement somehow a new opportunity, insight, or answer presents itself. In order to “think outside the box” to allow the intuitive, creative, and unforeseen powers access, shutting down the conscious mind seems necessary.ARTArticleMindfulness Meditation Therapy for PTSDPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be defined as recurrent episodes of anxiety and panic in reaction to a past experience that was overwhelming at both sensory and emotional levels. The individual was unable to process and assimilate the experience, and the emotional trauma becomes repressed, only to reoccur in the future. The basic direction of psychotherapy for PTSD is to help the client re-process these emotions into a form that can be re-assimilate; essentially completing the process that was left undone. However, the methods for doing this are problematic for two main reasons.ARTArticleNo One Ever Became A Leader By Submission.One definition of a leader is “one who is followed by others.” Another is “one who has influence or control over others.” This is accomplished by force (including authority based on position) and charisma (people want you to lead them).
This implies that a leader is a person who expects others to follow. Or a person who is confident enough to seek to influence others. We're not talking good or bad leaders, or people who abuse their office of authority. Just making some generalizations.rARTArticleNo Regrets"We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.” – Tom Robbins, Still Life with WoodpeckerARTArticleOnline Mindfulness Psychotherapy and Counseling for AgoraphobiaAgoraphobics and those with social anxiety and shyness issues are often searching for more self-help tools and strategies to help them better manage their anxiety. Often, they are highly motivated to overcome their anxiety, but are afraid of venturing out of their safe zone. Online counselling and therapy provides a convenient and effective solution.ARTArticleOur Greatest FearIn 1975 I graduated cum laude from San Francisco State University with a BA in anthropology, specializing in archaeology with a minor in sociology. I was accepted into graduate school. My first semester I found myself driving to school, maybe going to a class or two, but, more often, sitting in the parking lot drinking and doing crossword puzzles! I wrote a sob story to withdraw from my classes and was put on academic probation. The next semester I continued my irrational behavior, did not bother to withdraw, and was “disqualified from the University,” i.e. kicked out.ARTArticlePrioritiesWe are told in our society that we should always put ourselves first. I was told in all of my training, we always need to put ourselves first so that we have energy to then take care of others. Then I became a wife and mother. I discovered that I couldn’t always put myself first. There were many times my kids’ needs came first, or my husband’s did. Occasionally even the dogs’ needs did.ARTArticlePsychic Dreams; How Do You Know When Your Dreams Are Premonition, Clairvoyant, Telepathic?Have you ever had dreams that startle you awake? You sit up alert wondering “Did this really happen? Is it going to”? Did you note a marked difference from the other dreams you have; the ones in which you seem to be dealing with things that have recently been on your mind?
People ask how you know and what you do, when you have an out of ordinary dream experience. In upcoming blogs I will share some more extraordinary examples of psychic dreams and ordinary ones so you can compare. Hopefully these will act as reference guides.ARTArticleRelapse Prevention - Staying Clean & SoberDrug and alcohol addiction recovery is a process, and a process that continues for life.
Unfortunately, because no one is ever "cured" completely from the temptations of addiction, relapse is too often a part of the recovery process.
A drug or alcohol relapse does not mean the end of recovery, it's merely a stage in the journey that needs to be effectively dealt with.
Although relapse can be emotionally difficult on both the recovering addict and the family, relapse should never mean an acceptance of failure.ARTArticleRewards of ResilienceDuring the boom we scrambled and harried ourselves through deadlines and endless demands for more—more of anything that was shiny, comforting or electronic. Now on top of the deadlines, we worry about salary freezes and layoffs. Challenges don’t go away; they only vary with different economic times.
Many of us think that if we didn’t have hardship, we would be truly happy. Not so. Our lives are meant to be rewarding, happy, meaningful and challenging. Work often provides the arena to face adversity.ARTArticleSchizoaffective DisorderSchizoaffective Disorder occurs in 1 and 100 people. It was first diagnosed by Dr. Jacob Kasanin in 1933. Many people who have it are diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression because it is difficult to understand its symptoms.ARTArticleSituational Leadership and Success CoachingLeadership is defined as “someone who guides or directs a group.” There are many ways to do this. The most visible and probably the most ineffective is to yell at people until they do something that looks like what you want them to do. That works once. But true situational leadership - that focuses on the group, the conditions, and the goals - is a much more effective and long lasting method of leadership.ARTArticleSpiritual Guidance and Support Coping With Personal and Global TragedyI remember feeling my mother’s sorrow as a child. Sometimes I would stand next to her and begin to cry. “Why are you crying” she’d ask bewildered? “I don’t know mommy, because you are sad” I’d say. Some of us physically register the suffering of others in our bodies. We tap into their feelings subconsciously. The metaphysical terms “sentient” and “empathic” are often used to describe people who have this keen kinesthetic sense.
Do you get choked up when you hear someone cry? What happens to you when you pass an accident on the road?ARTArticleStress Reduction for Teens: Good Stress and Bad StressYou probably think of stress as bad or negative, but there are times when stress actually helps you.
Andrew plays soccer on his school’s team. He tends to get really nervous before a game, and his stomach often feels a little queasy. At the same time, his adrenaline increases and that helps him perform better.
If you go beyond that perfect point, the balance tips; the stress gets too great. It begins to decrease your ability to do well and starts to hurt you.
Samantha tends to put school assignments off until the last minute.ARTArticleStress Reduction for Teens: Noticing the Little ThingsThere are two types of mindfulness practice: formal and informal. In formal practice, you actually set aside an amount of time and dedicate it to being mindful. Informal practice doesn’t require any extra time; the idea is to bring moment-to-moment awareness to everything you already do, to zero in on what you are doing as you are actually doing it.
People often do things without being fully present, as if they were on automatic pilot. Living this way, they cheat themselves out of many moments in their lives.ARTArticleTelepathy with Animals; Do You Think Animals Receive and Respond to Human Thought and Feeling?I never get tired reading amazing animal stories; how pets alert their owner’s when there is danger, and act as guides for those who are physically impaired. The astonishing tales of lost animals who find their way back home after years and miles of trekking. For many of us, our animals are like additional children in the family with whom we share a mutual love and devotion.ARTArticleTen Tips For Effective Stress ManagementStress is a necessary part of life. Stress, in a positive form, lets you know that you are challenging your own limits, like when you strain to lift 10 more pounds or push yourself to finish a project before the deadline. Stress, in a negative form, wears down your physical and emotional systems. So stress management strategies are sought after by everyone.ARTArticleThe Healing Power of MindfulnessMindfulness is that quality of conscious awareness of whatever arises in our present experience in which there is an attitude of engaged-presence.