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CAFFEINE + ALCOHOL CAN TURN YOU INTO A WIDE-AWAKE DRUNK

CAFFEINE + ALCOHOL CAN TURN YOU INTO A WIDE-AWAKE DRUNK

Posted on 06.28.17 No Comments

CAFFEINE WITH ALCOHOL MAKES YOU DRINK MORE, DRINK LONGER AND WANT TO DRINK AGAIN.  When you mix caffeine and alcohol, the caffeine counteracts the sleepiness and balance/coordination problems that usually come with drinking, allowing you to drink heavily without passing out or stumbling Read More →

EMOTIVE JOURNALING ™ – How to journal away emotional baggage

EMOTIVE JOURNALING ™ – How to journal away emotional baggage

Posted on 05.26.17 No Comments

Want to get rid of emotional baggage? Emotive Journaling ™ is self-therapy to get rid of emotional baggage from a difficult childhood, past relationships, bad work experiences or just stressful times. A NATURAL WAY TO HEAL EMOTIONALLY   Imagine this. Your 1st grader comes to you all Read More →

Reverse Procrastination-Procrastination Can Drive Productivity

Reverse Procrastination-Procrastination Can Drive Productivity

Posted on 02.07.17 No Comments

Reverse Procrastination - Use your natural tendency to procrastinate to train yourself to become productive and focused. Procrastination is when you tell yourself, "I'll just play one more game of solitaire and then I'll get started writing my paper."  Then - surprise, surprise - when Read More →

How to really recover from trauma and stress

How to really recover from trauma and stress

Posted on 01.24.17 No Comments

Trying to put painful or traumatic memories out of your mind only stores them in a different part of your brain allowing them to resurface later. Have you ever tried to put one of your angry, sad, scary, embarrassing, shameful, rejected or stressful memories  'out of your mind' only to Read More →

PTSD without TRAUMA – How Common Stresses Can Give You PTSD

PTSD without TRAUMA – How Common Stresses Can Give You PTSD

Posted on 01.17.17 No Comments

SCRATCHES IN YOUR TEFLON - Stressful events that aren't traumas by themselves can add up and give you posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Stressful events  - like a divorce or breakup, getting fired, financial or legal problems, sexual harassment, having a miscarriage, having a serious Read More →

Self-Centered “Love” – Intense and Temporary.

Self-Centered “Love” – Intense and Temporary.

Posted on 01.03.17 1 Comment

Self-centered people can make you feel special, protected, loved and even cherished - until you are not!  Most people think that self-centered people have such glaring defects they must be easy to spot in the first date or meeting.  So how can anyone with a shred of self-respect fall in Read More →

ANGER MANAGEMENT 201: Do You Blurt, Block or Channel Your Anger

ANGER MANAGEMENT 201: Do You Blurt, Block or Channel Your Anger

Posted on 11.29.16 No Comments

Blurting your anger hurts others. Blocking your anger hurts you. Channeling your anger is the only permanent solution to anger management. There are three basic ways that you can express anger.  Young children blurt out their anger, they express it in a raw physical form such as Read More →

ACHIEVEMENT = Backbone – Emotional Baggage

ACHIEVEMENT = Backbone – Emotional Baggage

Posted on 10.11.16 No Comments

How much you achieve in life is pretty much determined by how much emotional baggage you carry and how strong of a backbone you have developed. Everybody has emotional baggage, emotionally difficult experiences that have not fully healed. Emotional baggage is like a a bunch of rocks that Read More →

Premenstrual Syndrome? You may really have PTSD

Premenstrual Syndrome? You may really have PTSD

Posted on 08.23.16 No Comments

Recent research shows that trauma and PTSD can cause severe premenstrual syndrome. If you have really bad PMS (premenstrual syndrome) you may actually have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  Women with PTSD are 7x more likely to have a severe form of PMS called Premenstrual Read More →

Communication ABCD’s – Communicate your way into closeness

Communication ABCD’s – Communicate your way into closeness

Posted on 08.16.16 No Comments

When you run into communication problems you need to go back to the ABCD's - A) A Single Issue, B) Best Time, C) See Their Perspective & D) Do It Again. In sports when you are consistently missing with your tennis swing or your jump shot you always go back to the fundamentals.  In Read More →

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CAFFEINE + ALCOHOL CAN TURN YOU INTO A WIDE-AWAKE DRUNK

CAFFEINE + ALCOHOL CAN TURN YOU INTO A WIDE-AWAKE DRUNK

EMOTIVE JOURNALING ™ – How to journal away emotional baggage

EMOTIVE JOURNALING ™ – How to journal away emotional baggage

Reverse Procrastination-Procrastination Can Drive Productivity

Reverse Procrastination-Procrastination Can Drive Productivity

How to really recover from trauma and stress

How to really recover from trauma and stress

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