Love Heals: Shannon Peck, one of our expert
personal growth columnists, discusses the power of love to heal.
Coping With The Careless and Cruel Words of
Others: What would you do if your optometrist remarked that you shouldn't
pick a certain eyeglass frame because "you need a pretty face to wear frames
like that?" Dr. Marlene Caroselli, one of expert columnists, shares her story
of confidence shaken and confidence restored.
Are You A Perfectionist Who Drives Everyone
Crazy?: Are you a perfectionist who is driving the people in your life
crazy? Are your children annoyed at your incessant drive to have everything
perfect? Mike Hernacki, one of our personal growth columnists, discusses
how to turn your need for perfection into a quality that improves your life,
rather than drives the people you love away.
Coping With Emotional Burn-Out: Are
you on the fast-track towards your goals--so fast that you fear you are going
to emotionally burn-out? Mike Hernacki, one of our personal growth columnists,
discusses how Contradictory Life Syndrome may be at the root of your burn-out
and even be preventing you from ultimately reaching your destination.
Learning To Love Life the Way Babies Do:
Do you love life? Do you enjoy the feelings, smells, sights, sounds and
challenges of your everyday life? Terry Hampton and Ronnie Harper, authors
of "99 Ways To Be Happier Every Day" share their thoughts on a very simple,
but overlooked way, to add happiness to one's life.
What Are You Getting For All Your Misery?:
Is there a negative, self-defeating pattern in your career or love life that
keeps happening over and over again? Are you baffled as to why you keep running
into the same no-win situations? Mike Hernacki, one of our personal growth
columnists, explains how your 'ground of being' may be setting you up for
failure and disappointment.
Feeling Good Despite Rough Times: We
all face afflictions, trials, heartbreaking disappointments and hard times--but
can we be happy despite the unhappy situations that come into our life? Terry
Hampton and Ronnie Harper, our expert personal growth columnists, discuss
how to choose an attitude that allows us to prevail and yes, even experience
happiness, during life's difficult moments.
Are You In Control Of Your Happiness?:
Is it true that a person is about as happy as they make their minds up
to be? Terry Hampton and Ronnie Harper, our expert personal growth columnists,
discuss the role attitude plays in our personal happiness.
Stop Worrying About Getting Old: Does turning
40 frighten you? Do you think 50 means your life is over? Does 60 seem ancient?
Mike Hernacki, one of our personal growth columnist, discusses the misconceptions
about aging that can prevent you from living a full life.
30Something Women Speak:What does it mean to
be a woman in your 30s? What challenges do women in their 30s face? Michelle
Evans, of Nebraska, shares her thoughts on being 30something.
Did Your Alcoholic Parent Destroy Your Self-Esteem?:
Did an alcoholic parent emotionally abuse you, hurling insults, calling
you a stupid, worthless, lazy nothing? Eleanor Agnew and Sharon Robideaux,
our expert columnists and authors of "My Mama's Waltz: A Book For Daughters
of Alcoholic Mothers" talk about how children of alcoholics can heal their
painful legacy of low self-esteem.
I've Tried Everything--Why Am I Still Not
Happy?: Terry Hampton and Ronnie Harper, authors of "99 Ways To Be Happier
Every Day" have advice for a Commitment reader who has tried everything from
reading self-help books to saying affirmations to doing visualization exercises
and yet is still not happy.
Self-Care Tip of the Day: Be
Courageous.
Self-Care Tip of the Day: Get to Know
Your Anger
Self-Care Tip of the Day: Watch Your
Words.
Self-Care Tip of the Day: Take Responsibility
for Your Life.
Self-Care Tip Of The Day: Allow the Past
To Be What It Is.
Self-Care Tip of the Day: Live in the
Moment
Self-Care Tip of the Day: Acknowledge
your Anger
Self-Care Tip of the Day: Honor Your
Body
Do You Have A 'Shelf-Esteem'?: Dr. Marlene
Caroselli, one of our expert career columnists, writes about how to manage
your life and career with greater wisdom, serenity and spirituality as we
enter a new millennium. She also shares some tips on starting a 'shelf-esteem',
cooling tempers, and not allowing the negativity of others to infiltrate
your actions.
99 Ways to Be Happier Every Day: Can a person
feel happiness if they have suffered a great loss--such as the death of a
loved one or chronic illness? Can there be 'good' in every life
situation--including being diagnosed with cancer or having the man you love
leave? Terry Hampton and Ronnie Harper have written an important book on
finding happiness even during life's darkest moments.
How Moments of Solitude Can Heal You: Scott
and Shannon Peck, our personal growth columnists, discuss the healing properties
of solitude.
Did An Ex-Husband or Ex-Boyfriend Shatter Your
Self-Esteem?: He left and said you were impossible to live with, a tyrant,
rude, needy, impossible. He said no man would ever want you or be able to
put up with you. Is he right? Dr. Pat Hudson, one of our expert relationship
columnists, has the answers.
Let Go of Emotional Baggage As We Enter the New
Millennium: How can you release and completely let go of the wounds inflicted
by partners who hurt you and relationships that have ended? Doug and Naomi
Moseley, our relationship expert columnists, discuss how to enter the new
millennium free of old baggage that is holding you back from true and complete
healing.
12 Ways to Cope with A Disapproving, Critical
Parent
12 Ways to Enjoy Your Own Herbal Spa at
Home
Find The Key To Your Magnificence: Scott and
Shannon Peck, our expert personal growth columnists, can teach you how to
liberate your magnificence. In their new book, "Liberating Your Magnificence:
25 Keys to Loving and Healing Yourself" they show readers how to fully express
their unique life message and spiritual identity. They ask the question:
how can you open your heart to your own magnificence--and if you do, is it
egotistical?
Reduce Your Stress: Jeffrey Thomas, LCSW,one
of our expert personal growth columnists, writes about how you can learn
to reduce your stress by changing your thinking and expectations.
How to Enjoy Your Vacation in the Present: Why
are so many of us are unable to enjoy our summer vacations--even though we
look forward to them all year? Perry Rose, our expert personal growth columnist,
discusses why enjoying the moment and fully experiencing a vacation is so
difficult for so many.
Are You Depressed? Sad? Excited?:Learn how to
name and recognize your emotional experiences in order to reduce the pain
or increase the pleasure.
Does Success Scare You?: Our expert personal
growth columnist Mike Hernacki has advice for a reader who fears losing all
the wonderful things in her life. She asks: why can't I relax and just enjoy
my good fortune?
Eleven New Ways To Increase Your Self-Esteem:
Feeling bad about yourself? We have the answers here!
Put the Spark Back In Your Life: Michelle
Gottlieb, our expert personal growth columnist, has advice on how to put
the spark back into your sometimes boring and monotonous life.
Wish You Could Stop Feeling So Lousy?: Our expert
personal growth columnist Perry Rose can show you how to change your moods
instantly.
Could You Accept Yourself As Fat?: Jean Evans,
37, of Moscow Idaho, says she spent most of her life buying into the belief
that her self-worth was based on her dress size. She says she now realizes,
that "health and happiness would happen regardless of my size..." Read about
her journey to self-acceptance.
The Eight Secrets of Personal Empowerment: Our
expert personal growth columnist, Perry Rose, shares an excerpt from his
soon-to-be released new book. In this column, he discusses the three possible
futures we all face: evolution, stagnation and disintegration.
Life in the 40s: Dixie Thompson, 44, of San Diego
says her 40s have been a confusing period of change. She lost her husband
of 17 years to a younger woman and she lost her only daughter to illness.
Yet, despite intense sadness and mourning, she says she now feels more stable
emotionally than ever before.
Say I Love You to Yourself: Why is it so hard
to say out loud that we love ourselves? A moving story by motivational speaker
Leeanne Lehman on the journey to self-acceptance. Read 'The Day I Looked
in the Mirror.'
Do you know how to relax? Our expert personal
growth columnist and motivational speaker Perry P. Rose shares some
easy-to-follow tips on how to relax despite life's stresses.
Want to Charm, Inspire and Influence Others? Check out our interview with
Andrew J. DuBrin, Ph.D., author of 'Personal
Magnetism.' He has advice on how you can develop personal magnetism.
Single Over 30: Despite common misconceptions,
there are women who are single over 30 and loving it! Meet Denese Purcell,
31, of Staten Island, New York, who says she is often treated differently
by society because she is single, over 30, and childless.
Life in the 30s: A continuing series on being
30something Theresa Boyles, 31, of Anchorage Alaska, says that now that she
is in her 30s, she likes her mother more, is more frustrated with her child,
and less concerned with what other people think.
Life Transitions: The first in our series on women and change. This week,
meet Mrs. Gay Carefoot, 50, of Laval, Quebec,
Canada. Her advice for others going through major transitions? "If you are
afraid of the results, don't be....If an opportunity comes along, grab it,
don't say "well, not at this time, I can't afford it or I have no time" There
is no time like the present....Life is made up of changes, this is what is
called progress."
Read our interview with Dr. Judith S. Beck, author
of "Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond" Many therapists are now using cognitive
therapy as a way to help their clients change their moods, behavior and thinking
patterns. Unlike psychoanalysis, cognitive therapy emphasizes solving problems
that are happening today, rather than delving into the past.
This is the first in a series on being 40 something. How does a woman
change in her 40s? How is this decade different from other decades? What
happens to a woman emotionally, spiritually, sexually during this decade?
This week, meet Brenda Trupiano, 46, of Weirton,
West Virginia who considers her 40s a time of spiritual growth.
If babies are born with perfect self-esteem,
why does it disappear later in life?
What are the four parts of self-esteem? Can
you act as if you are already the confident women you want to be?
Must we earn our self-esteem or is it a natural
birthright?
Does violating our personal code hurt our
self-esteem? |
