Maggie and Gabe are Getting Married

February 3, 2008

YIPPPPEEEE, my sweet, talented, brilliant stepdaughter (soul daughter) and her sweet, talented brilliant man friend are getting married next spring. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hey, it didn’t “kill” us…Posttraumatic Growth

January 31, 2008

My oldest daughter loved to paraphrase Nietzche when “bad things” happened” …”well, what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger.” I HATED that quote (still do, sorta). In The How of Happiness, Lyubomirsky introduces the notion of Post Traumatic Growth. Neat concept. We are all familiar with Post Traumatic Stress, but think about the “hope” the notion [...]

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Happiness: If you’re over 44 clap your hands !

January 30, 2008

Today ABC news reported that the “happiness curve” is like a smile, with age 44 being ” the old age of youth and 50 the youth of old age” (Victor Hugo.) and that happiness increases after 44. According to the reseach conducted by Andrew Oswald at the University of Warwick in England along with a [...]

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Obstacles to Moving Forward…Transitions

January 28, 2008

“Obstacles cannot crush me.Every obstacle yeilds to stern resolve. He who is fixed to  a star does not change his mind” Leonardo DaVinci “Obstacles are the frightening things you see when you take your eyes off your goal” Henry Ford It’s a winter wonderland here. We have lots of snow and the roads are challenging to [...]

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How to Avoid The Blogger Crankies…Or Transitioning from out there to OUT THERE

January 23, 2008

Remember when you went from junior high school to high school? I do. I wore the wrong skirt. Well, since this blog is all about transition and the grief that can accompany transition, today is a day for me to have the crankies over going a new “school”. That school being, the cyber school, the [...]

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Hey, stop that Head Chatter…defeat the enemy in your head

January 22, 2008

Overthinking….head chatter, the “gremlin”, the enemy in your head. We all know what that overthinking is like, we have all experienced, we all have different methods of managing that negative head chatter. Albert Ellis, the developer of , Rational emotive behavior therapy, focused his work on DISPUTING those negative statements. His method is the ABCDE method [...]

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Poor Me, Poor Me, Pour Me another Drink, or Hand Over the Pint of Double Fudge Ice Cream

January 16, 2008

  What’s wrong with me? Why am I so unhappy? Why did she look at me that way? What did I do wrong? Was it something I said? What will happen if…. Mental scripts of a woman’s mind? Rolling negative thoughts, feelings, and perceptions can be an indicator that OVERTHINKING is at work. The downside [...]

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Happiness Unveiled: It’s Up to 40 % of what YOU do !

January 13, 2008

Great new book on the market by Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want !!! The psychological community has been waiting for this treasure to “come out” and wow, we have not been let down. The BEST NEWS is that she has integrated research and theory so [...]

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Stop those Habits ! And tips on how…

January 7, 2008

Suspect that title was a cheap shot, but well, I am a bit feisty now that the season of the “cold” is over. Been reading some fascinating research coming out of Florida State University by Dr. Roy Baumeister on Self Regulation…ie managing what seems unmanageable…ie those nasty habits that seem to control us: overeating, over [...]

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Widows: Five Warning Signs for Internet Dating !

January 5, 2008

How crazy was THAT suggestion? Yup, a friend suggest I submit my “profile” to an online dating service, you know the drill…well, if you don’t, it’s worth a try. I am so glad I did…even if there were some interesting complications before I met a Prince of a Man. My first foray into the world [...]

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