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Regarding Letters to the Author

There’ve been a few letters from young adults that I’ve put on the back burner over the last six months, but the similarities between them don’t seem to decrease, as with the latest of this week. With this latest one, I wanted to strongly encourage anyone going through similar situations to talk to an adult or call a helpline and speak to anyone who will listen. The National Sexual Assault…

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Dancing Without Music is Now Available

Dancing Without Music is Now Available

When major depressive disorder, seizures, and an eating disorder leads to hopelessness, lack of interest, loss of pleasure, and worse: alcohol abuse, self-mutilation, isolation, anxiety, panic attacks, physical illness, and suicidal feelings, seventeen-year-olds Mia Callan and Milo Chatham who only recently began dating find this brutal array of dangers overwhelming, and possibly even…

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Lake of Secrets is Now Available

Lake of Secrets is Now Available

Living beside the water should be peaceful until the bodies of mystery infants wash ashore. A nightmare scenario unfolds: the third in a string of dead bodies turns up in the suburban lake, rekindling the mysterious occurrence. Each is a premature baby, and they were delivered a year apart. DNA tests show they’re all related half-siblings with no mother in sight. No one around the vicinity can…

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Book review: How to Know God by Deepak Chopra

Book review: How to Know God by Deepak Chopra

The Soul’s Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries This is another book in that same first class in Spirituality & Resilience about which I had to lead a discussion. The book was rather intimidating at first because I questioned the existence of a God. Despite growing up catholic, I strayed from religion and sought something more intellectual. So, this book challenged me. The author begins by…

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Book review: Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life by Steven C. Hayes

Book review: Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life by Steven C. Hayes

This book encourages you to detach from the causes of suffering, embrace your psychological pain, identify your values, and take action towards those values. It is all based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which focuses on mindfulness techniques, acceptance, and value-centric living. The author pretty much outlines the path out of suffering and towards full engagement of life. When…

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Book review: Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Book review: Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn

I first read this book ten years ago for a Spirituality & Resilience class. It’s pretty straightforward in that whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. Now how are you going to handle it? Don’t lose touch with yourself and fall into a robot-like way of seeing and thinking and doing where you break contact with your deepest self because if not careful, those moments can stretch out…

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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff—And It's All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff—And It’s All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over your Life This book is similar to the last book on Zen philosophy that I reviewed which was The Art of Simple Living. It consists of 100 suggestions to simplify your life and starts by noting things about our volatile world such as entertainment is more attractive than education, personal gain rates higher than personal growth, and being…

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Book review: The Art of Simple Living by Shunmyo Masuno

Book review: The Art of Simple Living by Shunmyo Masuno

100 Daily Practices form a Japanese Zen Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy This straightforward, unpretentious, quick read should be on everybody’s TBR stack because with just subtle shifts in your habits and perspective you’ll be able to live simply. The author is the head priest at a 450-year-old Zen Buddhist temple in Japan and separated his book into four parts: 30 ways to energize your…

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What Emotionally Strong People Don't Do

What Emotionally Strong People Don’t Do

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com They don’t accept that each feeling they have implies somethingThey aren’t undermined by not being correctThey don’t utilize rationale to deny their feelingsThey don’t extend significance onto all that they seeThey don’t have to demonstrate their forceThey don’t keep away from torment, regardless of whether they fear itThey don’t search out others’…

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Cognitive Biases that Create the Way You Experience Life

Cognitive Biases that Create the Way You Experience Life

Photo by Binti Malu on Pexels.com Projection—our preferences are projected towards what we see and interpret accordingly.Extrapolation—when we use our present circumstances to analyze our entire lifeAnchoring—the first information we hear tends to influence the way we perceive thingsNegativity—selective attention makes us pay attention to bad newsConservatism—when you rely on information you had…

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35 Things to Think of Instead of What's Consuming You

35 Things to Think of Instead of What’s Consuming You

Photo by Binti Malu on Pexels.com How do you see your life 5, 10, or 20 years from now?The level of progress you have made already this yearThe little things you do that change the quality of your lifeYour situation as pathway to your dreamsAppreciating the little thingsWhat your life looks like to othersWhat you have effectively achieved in your lifeWhat different choices exist outside of your…

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16 Signs of Socially Intelligent People

16 Signs of Socially Intelligent People

Photo by Lisa Fotios on Pexels.com They’re always careful not to let their emotions interfere with communicating with other people.They don’t directly criticize what they believe is unacceptable.They take their time before acting to criticism.They don’t take what they feel about someone as fact.They don’t judge people by one mistake, rather they’re careful with the language they use with them in…

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How Your Daily Routine Creates Personality

How Your Daily Routine Creates Personality

Photo by Liza Summer on Pexels.com Your habits and thought patterns are what determines your moodDon’t allow your fears and impulses to decide how you craft out your dayDoing more different things do not justify happiness, rather doing the same thing in a more different wayRegulating your daily actions limits you to fear and prevents you from actually enjoying somethingRoutine are fears of the…

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8 Most Prevalent Subconscious Beliefs that are Keeping You from Having the Life You Want

8 Most Prevalent Subconscious Beliefs that are Keeping You from Having the Life You Want

Believing you’ve failed when things do not work out the way they shouldConcluding that success is an arrival point based on the present momentAssuming that fear and pain is bad, and happiness is good because of your emotionsDistraction makes you not be vulnerable to that which you’re afraidYou think that adopting a new line of thinking is to change beliefProblems are pathways to achieving what…

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20 Signs You're Doing Better than You Think You Are

20 Signs You’re Doing Better than You Think You Are

When you have extra after paying your billsWhen you see your lapses because you’re able to thinkWhen you have a job that takes care of your basin needsThe ability to create time for yourselfIf you have what to eat and can decideYou because of the enjoymentHaving true friendsAffording the little thingsYour ability to change and growHaving spare time to do other thingsHaving enough clothing to…