When Worry Takes Over Our Lives We live in a society that is more fast-paced and stressful than ever before. As a whole, people are working longer hours, creating busier schedules, and have the constant need to feel ‘connected’ in some way, because staying out of the loop can make us feel lost and alone.…
Parents and children have unique relationships, no matter what. There is no other relationship or bond that can ever be as close as that of a parent, and their child. Unfortunately, for adults and children alike, sometimes we don’t fully understand how to make the most of those relationships, because we aren’t fully equipped with…
America continues to be a land of opportunity for many people, and perhaps in this day and age, there is no better group of people for that old saying to apply to than South East Asian Indians, making the trek to California from Mumbai. Many people leave Mumbai to get away from ‘slum-like’ areas, where…
Even if we don’t admit it to others, many of us think negative, or ‘self loathing’ thoughts about ourselves multiple times a day. It’s practically become normal in the society we live in, where standards of beauty, perfection, etc. seem to be higher than ever, and no one can live up to the expectations provided…
Sex Addiction – How To Keep It From Taking Over Your Life Sex addiction, or hypersexual disorder, is a disorder in which thoughts that are sexual in nature are ever-increasing, and ever-necessary to the individual dealing it with. So much so, in fact, that the addiction itself, and the thoughts and ideas that go along…
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Therapy Podcasts continue to make headway. from Mark Marron to Gilmartin the later of of whom Mark Winch writes about: How Self-Help Podcasts Are Helping People Therapy Cannot. Are self-help podcasts the new group therapy? here). Gilmartin’s podcast quickly touched a nerve, as within its first year it amassed over one million downloads (over 8…
Whether you’ve experienced it many times, or just once, somehow the face of grief in any serious loss hits us all just as hard, every time it comes up. It is the natural response to a deep loss of any kind, and even though we tend to think of grief mostly when someone we love…
Betrayal is often one of the deepest reasons we find ourselves in the midst of divorce. It can break trust indefinitely, while stirring up deep, raw emotions we didn’t even realize we could have. Whether the betrayal arises because of infidelity, lies, or something completely unique and personal, it is a hard concept to accept,…
Dreams have been present since the dawn of man, as a natural occurrence that happens when we sleep. Dreams are mentioned multiple times in the historical tales of the Bible, through classic literature, and have been the subject of many scientific studies. Everyone dreams, including animals, and they are a seemingly ‘involuntary’ operation. But, there…
When you think of Silicon Valley, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? The high-tech world? Apps, startup companies, or maybe even Facebook? The one thing linking those ideas together in Silicon Valley is the idea of wealth – fame and fortune seems to run rampant throughout the area, with bundles of money being…
Did you know that the pain arthritis sufferers experience can actually make arthritis spread to other joints?
We live in fear of global warming, economic disaster and nuclear war, though not necessarily in that order.
The dangers of old-fashioned pesticides like arsenic, and more modern ones like chlorpyrifos (marketed as dursban and malathion), have led to a new generation of pesticides heralded as safe for mammals and birds.
The commercial, featuring a now-familiar perky blond actress called Janice Dickenson, shows Dickerson flashing a blinding smile and saying, “For a good clean feeling, no matter what.” Last week, that line set off my interior alarm. No matter what, I asked myself? Does that include fire, plague, civil unrest, Armageddon, serious illness or imminent death?…
I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on the effects of xenoestrogens, so the headline from the Globe and Mail wasn’t that shocking.
At one time or another, I imagine almost everyone in the U.S. over the age of 18 has checked out an online dating site like Match.com (NASDAQ:IACI – $17.11) or eHarmony (a private company).
In the smallish town of Woburn, Massachusetts, three men have gone on trial for murder in the past few weeks.
In 2002, Michael Crichton wrote a fiction thriller called Prey, which highlights the dangers of nanotechnology.
Former Hewlett Packard (HPQ $41.27) CEO Carly Fiorina might have blown her chances of being Senator McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate after she told reporters that, as McCain’s campaign advisor, she’s been getting a lot of comments from women who are upset at the unfairness that many health plans cover Viagra (PFE $17.79) but not…
In 2001, Maureen Stout came out with a book called, The Feel Good Curriculum; The Dumbing Down of America’s Kids.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, have been pressuring manufacturers like Dupont (DD – $47.21) and 3M (MMM – $75.22, formerly Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) for years to replace their toxic coatings containing PFOAs (a type of PFC) with more environmentally-friendly substitutes.
This week in Discovery Magazine online, scientists report observing same-sex parents entering into enduring relationships to raise communal albatross young.
Scott Belsky from Behance recently spoke at The Feast about making good ideas happen. The following 10 suggestions would be helpful to anyone in a creative field:
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