Seven Untrue Things Most Americans Believe
First off, it’s worth stating that this writer is indeed, herself, an American. I was born and bred here, and before you comment with death threats or anything you should be aware that I don’t hate the USA; so don’t even bother to assume that I do. In point of fact I love the potential [...]
July 3, 2010
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It’s Only Me, Right? I’m The Only One!
Time and time again in my work I have clients who confess feelings, quietly, ashamedly, as though they were something horribly awful. Time and time again I have had the privilege of helping them to realize that most of the time, what they are experiencing is not only “normal” but is actually commonplace. And that [...]
May 4, 2010
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Some Uplifting and Helpful, Sane, Links
In today’s busy world it seems that most of us are juggling a great deal. Work, family, friends, and very often in this economy—a side business or two. It can all get to be too much. And of course our culture, unlike several others, doesn’t typically allow for the long term vacations that, say, many [...]
July 11, 2009
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Dealing with Depression and Anxiety
With the current whirlwhind of craziness about, many people who have a tendency toward depression and anxiety (which includes Ms. Sanity, gentle reader…) can be tending to struggle more than usual, due to the extra economic stress happening in most countries right now. At times like these, it’s important to pay extra attention to what [...]
June 7, 2009
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7 Tips To Raise Your Happiness Level TODAY
It’s not exactly new that there are lots of opportunities for feeling unhappy, disgruntled, and depressed these days. Most of us are in some way less than pleased about our situation in life, our bank balance, so on and so forth. That’s probably the human condition since time immemorial; cave dwellers probably felt on some [...]
April 20, 2009
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We Hold What Truths To Be Self-Evident?
Tipsy Dazy has a comment here that challenged me to think long and hard about, well, everything, and particularly about communication. Most of the people I have ever known do all tend to make assumptions regarding what is meant by a particular turn of phrase or word usage, (not to mention tone of voice, and [...]
March 27, 2009
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Why the Dalai Lama Rocks
I don’t know exactly when I first became aware of the (current) Dalai Lama, but I can vividly remember reading his autobiography and being utterly impressed and astonished at the depth of his thinking and his compassion–even for people in my (young and not very compassionate) view who “didn’t deserve it.” (e.g. those that had [...]
March 9, 2009
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Helping You
A newly found (and newly admired) fellow blogger really sparked my imagination today. His name is Rajesh Setty and his blog is Life Beyond Code. In it, among many other useful thoughts and ideas, I came upon his exhortation that we should allВ “Increase our capacity to help other people increase THEIR capacities.”В In other [...]
March 3, 2009
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