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ARTArticleStop Seizures Naturally (Easy Breathing Exercise: Simple or Partial Seizures)Caution. This specific breathing exercise is not an alte
ative for one's medication or any other medically administered procedure. It could be employed as an additional technique to diminish signs and symptoms. Seek the advice of your MD, GP or other health care practitioner for further detail.ARTArticleSurviving the Suicide of a Loved OneThe Suicide of a Loved One
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If only I had made more of an effort to engage my brother Henry more at our family Thanksgiving get-together. If only I had called him more often. If only I could have understood what was going on in his tortured mind. IF ONLY, IF ONLY! Regrets about things that I could no longer change echoed through my mind.ARTArticleTeens Abusing Methadone and Suboxone Risk Seizures and DeathSuboxone and methadone addiction is spreading among teens. These drugs are used to help teenagers overcome addictions to opiates like heroin and prescription painkillers like OxyContin, but their use has become controversial.
Teens are now obtaining them illegally on the streets, as substitutes for the addictions for which they’re being treated. As with the excessive use of most drugs, it is possible to overdose and even die from methadone and Suboxone misuse.
What are methadone and Suboxone?ARTArticleTen Tips to Get Healthy and FitDo you desire a healthy life, but feel like the road to that lifestyle is an impossible one? The truth is that a life of vitality and energy is within your reach.ARTArticleThe Insidious Killer in Recovery! | Dr. Anne Brown | Recovery.orgLiving without a backbone sets you up for severe consequences in the domains of health, finances, career, friendships, romance, recovery and your dignity for starters.
What does this mean? How can this be? It means you don’t know how to advocate for yourself and even worse you have insidious rationalizations on why you shouldn’t stand up for yourself. It can “be” for many reasons, but for openers because of dysfunction or perceived dysfunction in your family of origin. Enter chemical dependency and your recovery and we have a huge mess.ARTArticleTop Five New Year’s Resolutions To Wake Up AmericaIt is 2016 and we are seriously off track!
1. Delete HateARTArticleUsing Emotional "Harmonics"It is not so surprising that when we experience an emotion our brains emit electromagnetic waves of a particular shape and frequency. All vibrating things have harmonics: all it means is that at the same time as the original (or fundamental) is emitted, vibration at a higher frequency (usually exactly half and even a quarter) is emitted alongside or inside the wave. Just as strings on a guitar or violin have harmonics, so do the emotional waves that we emit. The first (sound) harmonic is an octave and the term “octave" is used in theosophical writing of all sorts.ARTArticleWarning signs of an eating disorderAre you conce
ed that you or someone you love might be suffering from an eating disorder? Eating disorders are serious and lengthly debilitating illnesses. Studies in Australia found that the average duration of bulimia is 5 years, and 8 years for anorexia. The quicker that one gets help for their eating disorder the better their chances of making a full recovery.ARTArticleWhat Our Athletes Can Teach Us About Recovery!This summer in particular, we had some pretty spectacular athletic competitions in England, France, and more recently, Rio. Whether you follow cycling, tennis or any of the competitions that took place in Rio, it is hard not to be inspired and learn from some of the stories.
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First, all athletes come with a story. If we spend any time reading about and/or watching the athletic events we have been blessed with this summer, we begin to become a part of these people’s lives.ARTArticleWhen “Make Nice” Doesn’t Work In Divorce (by: Anne Brown PhD, RN) | DivorceForceUnfortunately, there are several types of people who are going to be contentious in a divorce and they have to be handled differently. And many personnel involved in the divorce process do not prepare or educate the spouse of a contentious person correctly. If you have ever been told or if you suspect you are married to a borderline, psychopath, sociopath, narcissistic personality, or untreated chemically dependent person, for openers pay attention. For the purpose of this discussion we will call this person contentious.ARTArticleWhy is Giving Up People Pleasing So Difficult?This question fascinates me because I have observed over many years many jou
eys where people struggle with this task (myself included.) Let’s take a look at some of my speculations and see what your thoughts might be on why this is so challenging.
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For women, it is easy to look back at the history we are and see that we have had to work hard for our rights. We have been considered an extension of our marital partners, the gender to be educated last in some cultures, the gender to serve, the gender to be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen for starters.ARTArticlePassions are Clue's to your Life PurposeHave you ever had someone ask you if you knew what your life's purpose was and felt completely stumped? I certainly have, it just sounded so daunting and so big that all I could say was, "Oh gosh if only I knew! I've been trying to figure that out for years!" But when asked what I was passionate about, well I could go on about that for hours!
Here's a little secret; our passions and our purpose are directly related.ARTArticleA Better WayARTArticleAlcoholism and Drug Addiction: A Disease or Not?Alcoholism and drug addiction are two maladies that have severely afflicted scores of people across the globe. Now, whether these two should be categorized under diseases like cancer or heart disease is a debate that seems to rage on and create great controversy.
The medical community today generally seem to support the view that addictions should be classified as a disease, as they meet the criteria that are necessary to term it as such. These criteria are:
1. Primary
2. Progressive
3. Chronic
4. FatalARTArticleAlcoholism, Addiction, Denial and Recovery...There is HopeWhat comes to your mind when you think of an alcoholic and drug addict? Do you immediately envision a person on the side of the street, begging for change and holding a bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag? Do you envision a person in a crack house shooting up drugs and sleeping under a bridge? If these are the images that first pop in your head, then you have been watching far too much television. There are over 21 million people in the United States who have alcohol and/or drug addictions.ARTArticleALICE MILLER EXCERPTED: Unrecognized and Unconscious Emotional Injuries of Childhood, Part IIIn Memoriam: Alice Miller (continued - see Part I for introduction)
Alice Miller. For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 1983.ARTArticleDon't Let Vampire Thinking Steal Your DreamsI knew I needed to come up with a better name for this thinking type. It is a habit of mind we tend to take for granted as part of our mental make up and how we do things. But it has a powerful pull on our minds, sort of like a magnet the size of King Cong. I work consciously to identify this issue both in my own life and the lives of my clients. So it was no surprise when an image came to me that I feel best describes it: the image of blood sucking vampires.ARTArticleFINDING THE POWER IN ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION RECOVERYIn 1988, I was 25 years old and laying in the hospital for alcoholism, drug addiction and severe depression. I thought there was no hope and wished I would die in my sleep.ARTArticleGrief and the Myth of ClosureWhen faced with grief we often ask, “When will I begin to feel better? When will I return to normal? When will I be able to breathe again? When will I achieve some closure?” The idea of closure in our culture is one of tidy endings, a sense of completion. The reason we long for closure, of course, is because we would like to be rid of this pain. We would like to shut out the sad, confused, desperate, angry feelings from our lives, putting all of this pain behind us so that we can feel joy again.rARTArticleHealing ReadinessThe conscious awareness that we are ill and lack health, happiness and energy does not necessarily mean that we are ready, willing and able, at an unconscious level, to ask for and receive the health, energy and life changes that our Healing would bring about. Many individuals more safely manipulate, through their lack of energy and illness, the love, attention and support they desire and, in addition, protect themselves from any responsibility, failure and the expectation of others.ARTArticleHelping the Person with Dementia Grieve After the Death of a Loved OneCaregivers and family members often ask whether they should tell a loved one with Alzheimer's Disease or other dementia about a death in the family, and how they can help them grieve. Although much has been written about the profound grief of caregivers and other family members throughout the course of the successive losses associated with dementia, surprisingly little has been written about bereavement in the dementia patient.rARTArticleHow good is your relationship?How good is your relationship?ARTArticleHow to Keep Your Teenager Alcohol & Drug Free20 Exte
al Assets for Developing a Healthy Teenager Who is Alcohol and Drug Free
“40 percent of those who started drinking at age 13 or younger developed alcohol dependence later in life. Ten percent of teens who began drinking after the age of 17 developed dependence.”
“Teens that drink are 50 times more likely to use cocaine than teens who never consume alcohol.”ARTArticleKnow When to Fold 'EmWritten April 12, 1990
How do you know when it's time to say goodbye? To move on? To go separate ways? There comes a point for many people, whether it's with the true love of your life, the gang at church, your oldest friend, or a group you used to hang with, when something is just not the way it was. So what to do? And when to do it?ARTArticleQuestion: Publishing the Book I'm WritingSomeone wrote recently and said they were trying to finish a book they were writing, but had gone into a fearful place when thinking about having it published. "It's got me so twisted up that I am afraid to even write at the moment because I don't know what I'll do with the manuscript when it's done."
They knew from a friend that I had studied the publishing industry extensively before publishing my first book, and wondered my thoughts on writing and publishing. The following is my reply.
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In this article we’re gong to talk about: OrganizationARTArticleTennis...A Lesson in LifeI play tennis about four times a week. One of the guys I play with, always starts the day by tossing the ball to make his serve and announcing, “Enjoy, gentlemen!” I usually reply with, “Thanks Jon. I’m rooting for you to come in second.” (Unless, of course, Jon is my doubles partner.) Our tennis pro once pointed out that, “Someone is happy with every shot.”ARTArticleThe First Day of the Rest of Your Life Starts NOWAs a child, there was a saying framed in our home that said, “Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life.”
It took many years for me to completely understand what this meant, but when I did, I realized the past is definitely behind us and we have the ability every moment of every day to decide how we want the rest of our life to be.ARTArticleThe Women In Love StoriesA few weeks ago I wrote an article about what men could learn from heroes in the romance novels their wives love so much. Read the article, “Living Your Own Love Story” here. Well, what can women learn from the main female characters in these stories? In her book, Writing the Great American Romance Novel, Catherine Lanigan discusses several characteristics that are imperative for the female heroine to have in any romance story.ARTArticleVampire Thinking TrickstersLast week I introduced the concept I recently coined called Vampire Thinking. Vampire Thinking is the compulsion we all have to suck the juice right out of our possibilities and opportunities. Instead of acting on a good idea, we excel at finding a slew of reasons we should kill it as soon a possible and move on to continuing our “safe” existence. I’m sure you can relate to this idea because you engage in vampire thinking more frequently then you know. How often do you talk yourself right out of what you really want in order that you may choose for the safe option? And your reasons?