How are you allowing music to influence your feelings and thoughts?

With everything that bombards us in today’s electronic culture, we are influenced every single nanosecond. There are sights and sounds coming at us continually. Some of it makes us feel frenetic because it is too loud, too pounding, too high pitched, too angry, too slow, too fast–your interpretation of it  all depends upon what you

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

Create a Work-Life Balance to Keep Loved Ones Close Article on Monster.com

Every single day is truly filled with opportunities–some of them offer you the chance to witness the seeds you sew take hold and begin to blossom….such is the case with this article I wrote which got picked up by Monster.com and published today. Take a look at my article, “Create a Work-Life Balance to Keep
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6 Insights Gained From A Weekend With Laura: Laura Miravete, A True Inspiration (A guest blog post by Tara Rose Gladstone)

This past weekend, I met Laura Miravete, a woman who was born with muscular dystrophy.  She is now 70 years old and has not only lived a full, self-sufficient life but has surpassed the level of achievement that seems possible for someone in her position.  She keeps her home in spotless condition, has an impressive vegetable
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My journey up the mountain

Several years ago, I was invited to book a massage appointment with someone described to me as a yoga teacher from Tibet. I made the appointment and didn’t know much other than this was a Tibetan monk and that the experience would be just that – an experience. It was. A man of small physical

Internal dialogue

What is it that you are saying when you talk to your self? Do you think that you don’t? You do. In fact, you talk to your own self more than to anyone else–and that’s a good thing. However, depending upon what it is that you’re saying, you are either propelling yourself into a great

Spring Cleaning — of all sorts, i.e., internal and external

Let it go, let it all go. It feels so good. I had a feeling of clutteredness — yes, I like to coin terms. Every day as I sat in my office, I felt like I wanted to somehow reorganize or something to make the space feel more open. I am extremely organized and not
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Are you held captive?

Do you believe that you are destined to be happy, depressed, have a stroke or cancer, be overweight, or drink alcohol because your parents did or your grandparents or aunts and uncles did? When science introduced the ideas about heredity and genetics, they did us some good and also cost us a bit in our
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What anxiety actually is

  Anxiety is so prevalent that even Hollywood has gotten in on it and made movies to get us to share the experience and laugh about it, yes, laugh. What is it? Do you have it? Is it contagious? Is there a cure? There are many questions about the experience of anxiety that come into
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