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Optimize Agelessness and Creativity
How can we optimize agelessness and creativity in our normal daily lives with psychotherapy and life coaching? We can use our consciousness and perception of free will to optimize our health and well being. While teaching Mind Body Psychology at Ryokan College two...
Dance and Parkinson’s Disease
While recently visiting my mother at the Pickersgill Retirement Community in Baltimore, Maryland, I noticed her unsteady gait had again worsened. Since her diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) ten years ago, my mother has been treated with multiple medications, yet...
Distance Therapy is Effective and Convenient
In the Scientific American's Distance Therapy Comes of Age, by Robert Epstein states that with distant therapy you can, "see your progress in black and white," referring to people who text with their therapist. The sessions are visible and can be reviewed for...
Is Facebook Causing Relationship Problems?
According to a recent story in the New York Times, Facebook is one of the most popular searches for couples and singles. Does Facebook Cause Relationship Turmoil? Facebook is frequently a topic of conversation and conflict in today’s couples counseling. Facebook has...
Therapists Are No Longer Taboo
According to Taylor Trudon's Huffington Post piece, 10 Lessons My Parent's Divorce Taught Me, everyone should have a therapist. In today's society, Trudon says, "Having a therapist is like saying you have an Ipod. Everyone has one. They’re both expensive and you will...
Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen
According to the New York Times, College Freshman are under more emotional stress than ever before. The survey, “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” involved more than 200,000 incoming full-time students at four-year colleges, and cited that the...
If You Ingest Chemicals Are You Mentally Ill? Maybe!
In response to the Huffington Post article, Bath Salts A Growing Drug Problem Officials Say, the question is not should we ban every chemical that could be potentially dangerous if snorted or ingested but why are people snorting and ingesting dangerous chemicals? The...
Losing Weight Is Not About Diets
Many people struggle with diets and exercise plans with temporary success. The key to success is resolving the deep unconscious conflicts within each and every one of us. These conflicts when unresolved lead to destructive behaviors and addictions, i.e., excessive...
Are We Socializing Babies To Develop ADHD?
More and more, I see babies being over-stimulated with toys that talk, light up, and are connected to iPods and DVDs. There are toys that babies can push, which will create a sound from toy and the TV. They are put in front of these external stimuli with a pacifier,...
Creative Living, Ageless Living
Recently, I was sitting by a pool with a friend. We were discussing health and aging. He made the comment, "Aging is a disease," which struck me as fatalistic. "No, it's reality," he said. "At about 26 years of age, our cells stop growing and producing and start to...
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