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It has often been said that the relationship between a boss and their employee is like a marriage. Indeed, some employees work closely together with their bosses up to fifty hours a week, sometimes under difficult circumstances. [More]

It would be great if hope could be bottled and distributed. Unfortunately, it can’t. However, hope can be shared. It’s infectious. Recovery is possible. There’s proof of this every day, all around us. Don’t feed into the stigma and negative messages. Stay positive. Keep hope alive. [More]

Try to identify what causes you stress and as much as possible eliminate it from your life. Of course this is not always realistic. If the stress cannot be entirely eliminated, maintaining a positive attitude and a healthy perspective on the situation is helpful in reducing stress. [More]

The first thing you need to realize is that you are human and it is completely natural for human beings to be emotionally or physically attracted to each other. Just because you’re exclusive or have said “I do” does not turn off your hormones, or blind your eyes to people that you find attractive, amusing or flirtatious. So, if you’re beating yourself up about this attraction, you can stop. [More]

There are many great activities you can engage in every day to trigger the loop between brain matter and brain behavior. Even until old age, the brain is willing to learn new things if you are. [More]

It’s nearly impossible to get a 4 year old to sit still in a chair for an hour to do a traditional counselling session. I have found many diverse ways to communicate, understand, and build a therapeutic relationship with my younger clients. [More]

Many people counting down to retirement think of having no alarm clock and no "written-in-stone" schedule, but they fail to consider one thing. Their spouse. Their spouse who retired earlier. [More]

When trauma affects one person in a family, the whole family unit is affected. In fact, many professionals believe that anything that affects one person in a family (or couple) will also affect the other(s). It is easy to see how this could happen. A family is thought of a unit – one whole made of many parts. [More]

Some people find the city overwhelming, but the intense pace keeps me going. I need the bright blinking lights of Broadway to keep me alert. I do my best writing at loud coffee shops. The medley of honking cabs and the earth-shattering subway sounds is my favorite soundtrack. [More]

In today’s technology-charged world of computers, cell phones and iPads, the need for handwriting is slowly fading. Most people find that typing is their preferred method for recording information simply because most work and communication is done at a keypad. [More]