Personal Growth

She is constantly putting herself down
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
I have fallen in love with the most wonderful woman. My problem is that she is constantly putting herself down. She's not happy with her weight, her looks or her brains. She says things like, I'm so fat, I'm so ugly and I'm so stupid, all the time.

A Perspective on Life
by Joseph Ghabi
All of our lives we always seem to direct our concern toward attempting to conclude our life path or destiny in this lifetime without really knowing or understanding what this means to us. In reality the importance lies not in trying to determine our life

How This Old-Fashioned Virtue Can Improve Your Life
The Power of Patience: How to Slow the Rush and Enjoy More Happiness, Success, and Peace of Mind Every Day
by Mary Jane Ryan
All of us these days, it seems, spend our lives rushing around. We're in constant motion, and we expect everything and everyone around us to go faster as well. As technology watcher David Shenk notes, between our modems and our speed dials, faxes, beepers

Lifting Our Thoughts
Living Light As A Feather: How to Find Joy in Every Day and a Purpose in Every Problem
by Ruth Fishel, M.Ed.
One beautiful way of lifting our thoughts to a higher level and thus raising our energy is to tap into a stored memory of joy, love or self-confidence. It takes only a few moments to make this happen.

On Choice, the Mental Spectators, Social Relationships, the Problem of Oughts And Getting Command
by Terry Rich Hartley, Ph.D.
Like it or not, we are all gladiators. We go to sleep and wake up in a social arena from which there is no escape. Challenge upon challenge confronts us, walls restrain us, and a mob of spectators mocks, sneers or cheers us. Each and every day brings new

The Experience Of The Awareness Level
Embracing Our Selves: The Voice Dialogue Manual
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
Never judge a Self. When a part feels judged, it gets very upset and often disappears. If a facilitator feels too judgmental about a particular part, the work should be stopped and the individual put back into the ego place. It would then be appropriate

Techniques for Sensing Positive and Negative Energy
Positive Energy : 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love
by Judith Orloff, M.D.
In the mid-eighties when I'd just begun to expand my traditional psychiatric practice to include intuition and energy, I did plenty of experimenting. My good buddy for the first few years of this exploration was Michael Crichton, filmmaker, author

Creating Your Love Haven

If you really want to feel bliss in your life, learn to integrate balance into all aspects of it. After all it is YOUR life! As you do that you can incorporate these same balances into your sexual life. This fall and winter I will give you an introduction

Part 1: After the Fall
Blessings from the Fall: Turning a Fall from Grace into a New Beginning
by Beverly Engel
There are few experiences in life as demoralizing, humiliating and painful as falling from grace. For some, falling from grace is the horrible, shame-inducing experience of being publicly chastised or humiliated, having their reputation ruined

Sex, Drugs, and Postmodern Chicks
Swerve: Bikini Waxing, Reality TV, Dating Wars, and Other Modern Adventures
by Aisha Tyler
In this rowdy collection of pop culture essays, Aisha Tyler brings her razor-sharp wit and sweet irreverence to bear on everything from light beer, dating strategies, and music videos to women's self-image, the Ms. Foundation, and Sun Tzu's The Art of War

Making Changes That Stick
by Theun Mares
Anne is typical of many who want to alter their lives in profound ways, but find that they are unable to make these changes last. Is there a remedy? Yes. The secret to long-lasting personal change lies in understanding what change is all about, as well as

Part 1
Swell : A Girl's Guide to the Good Life
by Ilene Rosenzweig, Cynthia Rowley
Who is the Swell girl? She's the one who can throw an emergency dinner party, then clear the table at her neighborhood pool hall after dessert. She can take the dress the tailor ruined and turn it into a groovy conversation piece.

Pinpoint Your Passion
Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out into the Real World
by Maria Shriver
Be honest with yourself about it. really think about what you're interested in. What you enjoy, what captures your imagination and gets your brain going. What YOU want to do-not what you believe your parents or your teachers or society

To Thine Own Self Be True – Reboot Your Life To Become the Woman You Deserve To Be
by Dorothy Thompson
One of the most important things you can do for your well-being and happiness is to indulge in the practice of self-love. By saying that you respect yourself more than anyone in the world is a form of self-love and an important aspect in fulfilling your

The S.O.A.M. Model of Growth: A Teachable Form of Self Help
The Transformation Handbook
by Jan Maizler, MSW, LCSW
Achieving transformation and growth requires three critical steps: self-ownership, self-appraisal, and self-management (SOAM). The SOAM model is a cogent, practical working model of personal transformation that is dependent only on oneself.

The Power of Negative Thinking
by Remez Sasson
For some reason, most people find it easier to think in a negative way than in a positive manner. It seems that some effort is needed to think positive thoughts, whereas negative thoughts come easily and uninvited. This has much to do with education

Introduction
Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
by Steve Salerno
For decades I have been tracking the self-help movement without fully realizing its place in the zeitgeist, even though I've written often about its component parts. My first book, in 1985, described the mainstreaming of veteran sales and motivational

Willpower Versus Making Resolutions
by Remez Sasson
Willpower and making emotional resolutions are two completely different things. There is a common misunderstanding of what willpower means, and confusing it with promises and resolutions made emotionally and without much thinking, and which lack the inner

What it is in your life that you don't like?

Look at the things you don't like; piles of junk, stacks of papers, bad walls, noisy environment, cramped quarters. Now, just simply say, I choose to live in a nice, clean environment. Is there any hint in that statement that you want what you have

Each Life has its Place
by Leslie Karen Lobell, M.A.
Life will come and life will go. Many of us search for meaning. We want a reason for our lives. We want to touch this world somehow, and leave a legacy behind. Perhaps, most of all, we need to trust the words: each life has its place.