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77Think outside the box
CAN YOU CONNECT the nine dots on this page, with just four straight lines, and without lifting your pencil or retracing the lines? Solving this popular puzzle is an exercise that Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, an...
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79How to Raise an Independent Child – Part 1
OUR GOAL as parents is to raise independent, responsible and resourceful adults and we measure our success by how much we are no longer needed when our children turn 21. In other words, to be successful as...
1 comment80Define yourself... in 3 words
MANY YEARS AGO, when I was just starting out as a counseling psychologist, a woman in her 30s came to me with a problem that is not at all unique to people her age. She was distressed by the fact that her...
3 comments77When your teenager falls in love
ANYONE who has ever been a teenager knows the difficulty of wanting to break away from your parents and the shock of realizing how dependent you really are on them. Anyone who has ever raised a teenager has...
4 comments70Of wind chimes, bells, and singing bowls
WHEN I TOOK a course on hypnotherapy in graduate school, my teacher used sounds to alter our state of consciousness. He would ask us to close our eyes and then play a tape of temple bells ringing. In no time...
10 comments71A Coming-of-Age Story
“NO, NO, Alessandro. God does not want you to do this. If you do this, you will go to hell.” This is Sister Marie Claire’s nth recount of how St. Maria Goretti -- a girl my age --fends off...
2 comments68Love Poems for a Stranger
I BRIEFING All the universe is compressed into this one small room with two picture windows where we sit for hours retelling stories. You are now on your nth recount of how that sallow-faced brat in the...
4 comments78Five Questions on Women in their 40s
What happens to a woman (physically, emotionally, mentally) when she hits her 40s? In other words, what can you expect a typical woman to feel when she hits this milestone? There is no hard and fast rule. ...
10 comments57Great Expectations
MY PARENTS grew up in a generation when families averaged 7 children, each one assigned a role to play. From the 7 would come a priest, a nun, a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, a soldier, or an artist. It...
0 comments55Major Psycho
I wrote this piece when I was just starting out as a graduate student in psychology in 1994. I like it because it reminds me that there was a time in my life when I refused to take things seriously. MY...
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