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  • AVOIDING THE AGREEMENT-BY-DEFAULT TRAP

    Marshall is a copywriter for a large advertising agency. Although his supervisors rate his work as outstanding, he is considered the two-faced bane of any […]

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  • UNDERSTANDING INCEST: CHASING THE CLOSET SKELETONS: Part 1

    Incest, defined as any sexual violation between a powerless child and caretaker, can occur as intercourse, sodomy, fellatio, inappropriate touching, and exhibitionism– even verbal sexual […]

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  • HOW TO SAVE FACE AND TURN THE OTHER CHEEK…

                       During the last century, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains two families of “Hill People” encountered a  difference of opinion about what– […]

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  • TAKE A MOMENT FOR A META-TUNEUP

    Most people have some familiarity with the concept of “meditation”, either through personal experience, readings or discussions with those who have meditated. Meditation is an […]

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  • ALLEVIATING CFIDS BY REDIRECTING STRESS: Part 2

    <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> CFIDS (chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome) is a pervasive disorder containing a cluster of profound, incapacitating symptoms. […]

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  • QUESTION & ANSWER # 2

    Any suggestions on overcoming the seemingly innate tension between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />   Begin by putting your at-tension […]

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  • IF YOU SHOULD HAPPEN TO SEE NEIL SEDAKA…

    …Tell him you agree: “Breaking up is hard to do.” We all experience it. Though unpleasant, it’s one of life’s rites de passages. Typically, the […]

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  • GETTING THROUGH THE”DOG DAYS” OF SUMMER

      A mid-summer’s nightmare.  It’s early one beautiful summer morning.  Ahh…the sweet smell from the garden, the gentle warm breeze, the birds softly announcing another […]

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  • THE ART OF DEPRESSION (Part 2)

    “Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.”                                                              Benjamin Disraeli “We are what we think. All that we are […]

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  • WORRY YOURSELF TO SUCCESS

                                    “Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due”                                                       William Ralph Inge “Worriers aren’t winners and winners aren’t worriers.” Some armchair philosopher […]

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