Is stress a matter of perspective?

This is an essential question because it gets to the heart of many arguments about why it is that people behave the way they do. Stress is not an excuse to behave badly but when we feel stressed, we need to recognize it and take healthy steps to alleviate it. The answer is basically yes,

Inner strength and your childhood

One of the things I make note of is how people often get sad over the Christmas holidays, especially as it relates to the sweetness of what is associated with them. In my work, I consistently invite people to take a look back in their life, not to regress and get stuck there but to
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5 Tips to Ensure You are Miserable This Holiday

  Everyone is talking about what you can do to be happy this holiday and have a Merry Christmas. Seriously? What if you just simply want to be argumentative because you’re sick of those people in your life who you happen to live near, are related to, and have to work beside? BE MISERABLE —

What to do about stress right now in 3 simple steps

  We all talk about stress all year long. When was the last time you used the word stress in a sentence? Are you finding yourself using it more as we come upon the December holidays? Yes. Most of us do and it is so counterproductive the way in which we do this. We’ve all lived

11 Ways to be happier this December

Christmas happens in 11 days. Hannukah begins tomorrow at sunset. No matter which holiday you celebrate, there are simple steps that you can take today to ensure that you close out this year happier and open the new year with a joyful perspective. The Dalai Lama teaches us that happiness ought to be our primary

A special request for peace — today

Peace. It is attainable through intention. I love the words of the song “Give Peace a Chance”.Imagine what would happen if the method of protest would return to the sit ins that used to take place here in America in the 1960s and 1970s. We would be looking at a very different national image and
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When your memories bless you and haunt you

We have a lifetime of events that imprint us and those imprints are both emotional and psychological. We have the capacity to influence how it goes, what the feelings are, what the words are, and how we allow them to influence us as we take the next steps in our lives. Build the Strength Within
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How to quickly get out of a bad mood

Step 1–stomp your foot! Step 2–own the feelings that you are having and make sure you are accountable to yourself for them! Step 3–your leg should be talking back to you for stomping, telling you it is not happy about the residual feeling, your ownership of your feelings ought to have you motivated to be
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Create a Work-Life Balance to Keep Loved Ones Close

Journal Star, the website for the daily newspaper in Lincoln, NE, posted Dr Deb’s Monster piece, based on BUILD THE STRENGTH WITHIN, on October 23, 2014, and included the jacket image, as well as a link to the book’s page on Amazon, and to her website.  The site has approximately 260,000 visitors per month. Below is the

Do you get sad when the weather is not what you want?

It’s raining here in the Midwestern portion of the United States. The season is autumn. We all get rain. The question is — does it have a negative impact upon your mood? If yes, why is that? This life experience is filled with a variety, a wide and rich variety of visceral, sensual stimulus for