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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 6, 20081 topic

Your Sexy Self

Here are a few tips for dealing with your post-pregnancy body and keeping the spark alive:nn• Review your expectations. If you were under the impression that you'd slip right back into your hippest pair of jeans right after the baby was born, you may need to accept that for most women, this just isn't realistic. Sure, there are the lucky few who can be seen lounging poolside in sexy bikinis three or four weeks post-baby, but if you're reading this, you are probably not

Primary topic: Pregnancy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 6, 20081 topic

Frequently Asked Questions

It's only been two days since I started breastfeeding and my breasts are killing me. Why?nnOnce your milk starts to come. in, and the milk volume quickly increases -- which usually occurs sometime during the first week after delivery -- your breasts have a tendency to become overfilled, or "engorged," and this can be quite painful. It may take a while for your body to learn how to regulate your milk production and for you to get the hang of breastfeeding. Until then, it is ea

Primary topic: Pregnancy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 3, 20081 topic

War In Iraq, George W. Bush

Accomplished? On May 1, President Bush triumphantly proclaimed the end of combat operations, and he did it with a theatrical flourish. Attired in a Navy flight suit, the former Air National Guard trainee (Bush had actually cut short his flight training to participate in a political campaign) landed ceremoniously on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln off San Diego. Bush emerged from the plane under a banner stretched across the carrier's super structure. "Mission

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 1, 20081 topic

What Makes A M.I.L.F.?

There's a term that young, single guys use for sexy moms: M.I.L.F. It's an acronym for Mother I'd Like to #$%@. Don't be insulted; it's the highest compliment a stupid man can pay you. (And don't be frightened. It's always muttered behind your back. No man would ever be so bold as to tell you to your face.) You can pretend to be shocked, appalled, and offended, but you're not fooling anyone. There will come a time when you're feeling unattractive and loathsome -- you'll be we

Primary topic: Self-Esteem and Self Confidence

Self-Esteem and Self Confidence

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 1, 20081 topic

The iPod

He strolled into the room and quietly laid his books on a desk. Class would begin in about three minutes; soon the teacher would be droning on about something utterly irrelevant to his life. Entirely removed from his surroundings, the small plastic gadgets in his ears piped in the words that resounded repeatedly in his head, chorusing the ideas that he has heard about sex and violence and crime -- and women. Vulgarities and obscenities that had always been forbidden in mainst

Primary topic: Teenagers and Parenting

Teenagers and Parenting

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 1, 20081 topic

Raising A Kid Safely In The 'Hood

My stomach sank the moment we arrived home from the hospital with our newborn baby. There in front of the house loitered the narcotics gang that ruled our street in Harlem.n nFirst to step forth was the head of the drug crew. He offered stiff congratulations as he peered at our precious bundle. Then the one I feared most -- a malodorous crack addict named Salami -- let out a menacing yelp. "Oooh, he's so pretty. Just like the Gerber baby! Watch out someone doesn't steal him!"

Primary topic: Parenting

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 30, 20081 topic

So Whose Fault Is It When Candidates Fudge On The Federal Budget?

You may have the sneaking feeling that there's something the presidential candidates aren't telling you about the federal budget. And you're right. Here it is:nnEvery expert who looks at the federal budget uses the same word to describe it: unsustainable. The federal government is $9.5 trillion in debt already, and is projected to run a half-trillion dollar deficit next year. Plus, there are huge expenses coming up as the baby boomers retire and start needing help from Medica

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 30, 20081 topic

Do We Have To Talk About The Lapel Pins Again?

When it comes to international issues, a lot of Americans aren't on top of the details. In 2007 only 36 percent of Americans could name Vladimir Putin as the leader of Russia, although maybe he's raised his profile here recently by pummeling Georgia into the ground. Let's not even speculate about the number of Americans who initially thought there were Russian armies headed to Macon. Presumably that's been cleared up by now.nnBut since so much of the voting public is so hazy

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 27, 20081 topic

Tee-Time And Me-Time

Mothers live in a permanent state of guilt. How come men don't? Mothers are guilty not just about whether they work and how much they work and should they work and where they work. But they are also guilty about what they do with the few moments they can call their own. A classic example of the difference between men and women is spare time, quality time, what is known in the parenting business as "me-time". As a mother you don't get a lot of it. What do you do with it? Maybe

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 27, 20081 topic

Raising Kids In The Country

Arriving in the middle of the countryside fresh from the city with a young family, it is fair to say I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I grew up in the city; the countryside was something you saw on TV if there was nothing on another channel. As an adult, I believed the city to be my right, my natural home. You might spend a week in a holiday cottage somewhere green, and usually wet, but that was as far as it went. The countryside, my dear, was another place.nnM

Primary topic: Family

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 27, 20081 topic

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 (Wife In The North Excerpt)

Absent with LeavennMy husband left for London for two weeks. Let me see, how long have we lived here. Oh yes, three weeks. How pregnant am I? Seven months. How many children do I have? Two and a bit. Do I want to be here? No. Excellent. He has a deadline, he always seems to have a deadline. He is the one who wants to live up here, yet he is the one who has to work away for weeks at a time. I knew he would have to go back soon after we moved; he can do part of his job down the

Primary topic: Friendship & Loneliness

Friendship & Loneliness

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 27, 20081 topic

Authenticity -- A Fast Way To Connect

"I heard you did a great job connecting with the audience and got all choked up with your acceptance speech for the Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame," said my friend Victoria.nn"Yep, when I DO authentic, it works every time," I said with a chuckle.nnI was kidding about 'doing' authentic, of course. What immediately connected with the audience was 'being' authentic.nnThe fact was my introducer, Warren Evans, brought me to the stage with "Welcome home Vince." I was emotional abou

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 27, 20081 topic

Flinchlessness

You flinch . . . you lose.nnImagine skiing at over 130 mph on skis and you catch an edge. One instinctive flinch to catch your balance and you lose any chance at winning the race. The challenge is overcoming the protective instinct to throw your hands out for balance while maintaining stability and maintaining your line.nnIn a sale, negotiation or even a debate, flinch and you lose ground. In a world of incredible speed the lost ground might be too much to recover from.nnImag

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 27, 20081 topic

The Fastest Way To A 100% Closing Ratio

100% of the prospects she asked said yes. Even the people that started by saying no, said yes. She's my nine-year-old daughter. Her name is Alex and the most amazing sales person I have ever seen.nnWe were at her brother's soccer practice with 75 minutes to meet her $200 goal for the American Heart Association. We walked to the nearest home. On the way I said to Alex, "Let me teach you the alternative close. Say . . . Would you donate $10 or $20 dollars? It works every time."

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 27, 20081 topic

Making Friends In Unlikely Places

The first person I met when we bought our "fixer upper" brownstone in Harlem eight years ago was a manic crack addict named Salami. This menacing apparition bolted out of the abandoned house next door to inform me that he planned to take over our new abode.nn"It ain't your house, Mama," he hollered about the property in which I had just sunk all our savings. "I used to squat there and I'm gonna get it back."nnThus began my adventure in what is euphemistically called an "emerg

Primary topic: Friendship & Loneliness

Friendship & Loneliness

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 26, 20081 topic

Cancer Is A Preventable Disease Of Our Western Life-Style

Cancer rates have been rising steadily since the 1940s. But this is mostly true in Western life-style societies. By understanding how this happened, we can all learn to protect ourselves better.nnA Cancer Epidemic Started in 1940nCancer rates have been climbing steadily since 1940. This is not due simply to the increase use of screening tests or the aging of our population: cancer has been rising in children and adolescents at a rate of 1% per year in the past 25 years. And c

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 26, 20081 topic

The HPV Vaccine - Are You Confused?

In recent weeks, attitudes about the HPV vaccine have often shifted from fanfare to fear as newspapers, blogs and medical journals have inundated the media with conflicting opinions. While the public wants information about the vaccine in simple and clear terms, the potential benefits and limitations of this vaccine have been somewhat difficult to see in black and white. Some of the questions that have dominated the media about the vaccine are:nnIs the vaccine safe? -- The re

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 26, 20081 topic

My Buddy's Candle

When I finished writing this story two meaningful events occurred. One day while discussing this with a friend she told me she had the same thing happen to her. She watched her dog be run over by the school bus which was bringing her home from school. Sharing Buddy's story helped her to heal.nnThen one Saturday morning my inner voice said go to the animal shelter this morning. I have learned from experience to always listen to this voice and often feel it is coming from God k

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 24, 20081 topic

Debunking The Myth Of The Oil Crisis

The opening years of the 21st century are marked by milestones in the world of oil: the war in Iraq, the Shell reserves downgrade, Hurricane Katrina, and the breaking of the once unthinkable $100 per barrel barrier. Many have seized on these events as evidence that we are crossing the threshold of 'peak oil'. Behind us, a century and a half of abundant, cheap oil that fuelled industrial civilization and brought unparalleled prosperity to a fortunate global minority. Ahead of

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 22, 20081 topic

Desk Job Making You Fat? Easy Ways To Shed That Jelly Belly For Good!

Weight gain on the job is so prevalent now, that some nutritionists have coined the term "the office 15" to describe the average of 15 pounds that about 45 percent of women gain just in the first three months of starting a desk job. And there are millions of American women who gain even more than this over the years, citing their job as a main reason they've become overweight or even obese.nnThe real culprits behind job-related weight gainnnIt's easy to see that long hours of

Primary topic: Dieting and Weight Loss

Dieting and Weight Loss

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 19, 20081 topic

The Role Of Executive Coaching In Talent Management And Succession Planning

Research indicates that as many as 70 percent of U.S. firms still do not have successful talent management or succession planning programs. And yet many authorities continue to warn that, despite the current economic downturn, a war for talent is looming. Indeed, the current economic downturn may in fact create an additional hardship for employers, since it may tempt many managers to take their human talent for granted as unemployment rises. In short, the "r" word (that is, "

Primary topic: Corporate Training

Corporate Training

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 12, 20081 topic

Prologue

Walter Martineck hardly knows Drew Peterson, a retired police sergeant in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, but he's a good friend of Peterson's stepbrother, Tom Morphey. So it was that Martineck found himself unwittingly drawn into the events of October 28, 2007, the day Peterson's young wife, Stacy, was last seen. The prologue that follows is a dramatization based on an account Morphey reportedly gave to police, as well as statements Martineck made in the media regarding h

Primary topic: Women's Issues

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 9, 20081 topic

HPV Vaccine And Cervical Cancer: Is it worth vaccinating?

Over the past two years, the O-N-E L-E-S-S campaign for Gardasil, the new HPV vaccine to protect against cervical cancer, has brought discussion about the human papilloma virus to the forefront, shining new light not only on the vaccine itself, but also on the issues that surround it.nnHPV is ubiquitous. Nearly 50% of sexually active people will have HPV at some point in their lives. There are around 20 million people with HPV infections in the U.S., with 6.2 million new case

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 3, 20081 topic

Advice From The Underbelly

When I was pregnant with my first child, I had no absolutely no idea what to expect. I went about my business as if nothing was different. At work I'd occasionally glance down at my growing belly as thoughts of chubby, quiet, smiling babies dressed in all-white filled my mind. I had convinced myself that my life wouldn't really change.nnFast forward a few months -- I was sitting in my infant daughter's room and we were both crying. She was crying because she needed a new diap

Primary topic: Pregnancy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 3, 20081 topic

How To Talk Like A Pirate, Me Hearty -- A Tutorial

So you wants to parley like a pirate, do yee? Thar be certain matters to attend to afore yee can tack about and talk like a proper tar. Some landlubbers ain't suited for the seafaring life. If yee play golf on Sundays, unless yee cheat most grievously, yee will never speak like a salt. If yee got yee a tattoo, such as be rubbed on and water soluble, yee ain't fit for any fourmaster. If yee plucks daisies rather than daggers, yee best stay in your cottage and away from the cle

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 29, 20081 topic

5 Back To School Lunch Ideas

Lunch #1: BBQ Chicken for Championsnn * One chicken breast, cut in half and pan fried in olive oil for 6 minutes a side. n * Add salt and pepper. Cut into strips. Serve cold dipped in dipping sauce.n * BBQ dipping sauce -- ¼ C (put in BPA-Free container)n * Veggies: steam broccoli for 7 minutes, run cold water over it (or defrost frozen broccoli) n * Place in BPA-Free containern * Veggie dipping sauce in BPA-free containernnUse: BBQ sauce or honeynDrink: water, GFCF* V8

Primary topic: Cooking and Recipes

Cooking and Recipes

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 27, 20081 topic

Bringing Baby Home: Your Postpartum Plan

You went in to this pregnancy with one goal in mind; bringing a new baby into your home. One of the most important ways you can prepare for this enormous event is to make plans for those first six weeks after delivery. Bringing a baby home is not about what color is right for the nursery or do the socks I bought match the outfit Aunt Doris sent? There are more important issues to consider before you carry that cuddly sweet bundle across the threshold.nnThe most important plan

Primary topic: Pregnancy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 22, 20081 topic

5 Keys To Fat Loss Success

When it comes to losing fat, success doesn't happen overnight. Sometimes it doesn't even happen over a few weeks, a few months or a few years. Don't rush it, don't crash and don't expect too much of yourself too soon. Life is for the living; for the making of mistakes and learning from them. Below I have outlined my 5 Keys to Fat Loss Success so that you can not only lose fat but keep it off -- forever:n n1. Set realistic short-term goals: The best way to think of these is as

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 21, 20081 topic

Cancer: A Matter Of "Terrain", Not Genes

Genes account for at most 15% of cancers. What matters most in prevention or getting the most of treatments is not our genetic makeup but the biology we create within our body to support our natural defenses against tumor growth.nnThe Genetic FallacynMost of us live with the false belief that cancer is a genetic Russian roulette. As one in three of us will die of cancer, the odds are indeed as bad -- worse actually -- than those of that dreadful game. But it is NOT genetic. A

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 14, 20081 topic

One Person's Yummy Food Is Another Person's Yucky Food

Vegetables and protein (fish, poultry, meats, and beans) are the most common food aversions. Some children even reject fruits. The diet becomes extremely restricted to bland, white foods, including sweets, breads, pasta, crackers, pretzels, chips, and macaroni and cheese. These foods are glycemic and raise blood glucose, quickly increasing the demand for insulin production. Zinc is part of the insulin molecule and is depleted, resulting in abnormal taste and taste perception.

Primary topic: Cooking and Recipes

Cooking and Recipes

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 14, 20081 topic

AIDS: A History of Treatment Modalities

The recent XVII International AIDS Conference, which ended on August 8 in Mexico City, addressed new medications that fortunate Americans have at their disposal. Indeed, medicine and pharmacology have come a long way since 1983 when concerned representatives from thirty nations met at the World Health Organization headquarters in Genera, Switzerland. That meeting was the precursor to what would eventually become the International AIDS Conferences, the first of which took plac

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 13, 20081 topic

Their License To Do Ill

Since the founding of the Moral Majority Coalition by Jerry Falwell in 1979, members of the American conservative movement and what has become its electoral vehicle, the Republican Party, have presented themselves as proponents of what they like to call "family values" and as leaders in the cultural wars they have unilaterally declared on liberalism and its (in their view) hedonistic, '60s-like ethos. They have railed against premarital and extramarital sex, championed the vi

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 12, 20081 topic

AIDS: A Psychological Roller-Coaster at a Crossroad

The recent XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City covered many interesting topics, including up-to-date medical treatments and the impressive increases in programs to address the AIDS calamity in Africa. Conspicuously absent was any discussion about the psychological vicissitudes experienced by AIDS victims, and their loved ones, in the developed world. In the last twenty-five years, Americans have struggled with the disease both medically and psychologically as AI

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 30, 20081 topic

Boone Pickens' Energy Crusade: Prophet Or Con Man?

T. Boone Pickens has broadcast his way right into the middle of a presidential election debate about United States energy policy. Americans are upset about $4 a gallon gasoline, and the iconoclastic oilman has bought a lot of air time to tell us what he thinks about the situation.n nPickens' views have injected some fresh air into the public dialogue, and most of his ideas stand up pretty well to the scrutiny of serious energy analysis. But we must be careful not to replace o

Primary topic: Future Trends

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 29, 20081 topic

The New Miracle Treatment For Women In Midlife and Beyond: A True Magic Bullet for Staying Healthy And Feeling Good

When you first saw the title of this article, you immediately thought it was hogwash, right? nnYou were a bit disappointed, too, because doctors are supposed to be honest, and discuss only the treatments that have been scientifically proven to work; and everyone knows that there is no such thing as a miracle treatment that keeps you healthy as you age. But, hereâs the thing: we are telling you the truth. nnFirst, let us tell you what this miracle treatment can do. It can he

Primary topic: Women's Issues

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 28, 20081 topic

American Presidents And Energy: A Challenge Of Leadership

Every American president has wrestled with the question of how best to fuel the country's transportation and other energy needs. Even Abraham Lincoln chose to reject an offer from the King of Siam (the same one of Broadway musical lore) to send over Asian elephants who could propagate here and create a national transportation infrastructure. Lincoln explained to the King that America planned to rely on steamboats and steam-engine railroads, both fueled by burning wood. Modern

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 28, 20081 topic

The Jacked-Up Truth About Steroids

Attention, all grandstanding politicians, disgruntled sports fans, and anti-drug crusaders: don't waste your time trying to fight steroid use. You have a better chance eliminating caffeine from white-collar workplaces than you will compelling professional athletes to abstain from drugs that can legitimately make them stronger, faster, and more resilient. Likewise, it is beyond naive to expect bodybuilders, actors, models, and other professional (and amateur) narcissists to re

Primary topic: Sports

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 24, 20081 topic

Prologue (Pharmakon Book Excerpt)

I was born because a man came to kill my father. If he hadn't showed up with a gun in his pocket and bad thoughts in his head, I wouldn't exist, much less have a story to tell. This tragic footnote to my conception left me feeling as if I had three parents: a father, a mother, and a murderer.nnMy father suffered from strange and temporarily paralyzing attacks of catatonia that my family, with characteristic discretion, referred to as Dad's "Sock Moments." You would walk past

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 24, 20081 topic

Fish Oil -- What Every Midlife Woman (And Man) Should Know

One cannot read a newspaper or listen to the radio or TV without fish oil being mentioned. What, exactly, is it? Why all the hype now? Is it really as good as itâs cracked up to be? All are important questions; you need to know the answers if you want to stay healthy in midlife and beyond.n nWhat is it? nThe healthy substances in fish oil are known as the omega 3 fatty acids. Although the highest concentration of these is found in fish, you can also find omega 3 fatty acids

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 22, 20081 topic

Self-Possession

In my work as a psychotherapist, I have seen a succession of women trying to reclaim the self. They come seeking relief from the pain of something that has gone awry in their lives, which could be anything from breaking up with a boyfriend to marriage wounds to a hypercritical boss to some undefined but persistent angst. But as soon as that pain has abated just a little, and they begin to listen to their inner feelings, they discover that they are far more severe on themselve

Primary topic: Happiness

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 22, 20081 topic

AIDS: The First 10,000 American Cases (1981-1988)

The XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City from August 3 through 8 has, as its stated goal, to conduct a forum that âpromotes scientific excellence and inquiry, encourages individual and collective action and dialogues, and fosters accountability.â The conferenceâs impressive agenda is testimony to how far we have come in dealing with the worldwide problem as well as how much has been forgotten regarding the early causes, and rapid spread, of the illness in A

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 21, 20081 topic

Lawyers And Pirates

I have been surprised since writing my novel, "SILVER -- My Own Tale As Told By Me With A Goodly Amount Of Murder", by a particular question that readers have asked and the frequency with which it has been asked. The question assumes different forms, but it is chronic: "What is the difference between pirates and lawyers?"n nThe question is always asked with a smile and the audience consistently responds with a laugh. I don't resent the question or the person asking it. I do r

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 17, 20081 topic

How Do Pirates Dress For Halloween (And What Do They Do?)

How do pirates dress for Halloween? They can't strap on a peg leg, prop a plastic parrot on their shoulders, apply an eye patch and wrap a red bandana around their scurvy heads. That's no fun at all -- not for a pirate on Halloween. That would be like we landlubbers wearing a suit to a Halloween bash -- the same suit and "business casual" clothing that we wear to work each day.n nI happen to know how pirates dress for Halloween. I know it because I am on intimate terms with p

Primary topic: Humor, Fun and Games

Humor, Fun and Games

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 16, 20081 topic

Not Just For Kids -- The Surprising Health Issues Of Midlife Women

One of the advantages of reaching midlife is that we are finally finished with all those issues that make childhood and adolescence such a pain in the neck, such as needing set bedtimes as well as regular dental and eye checkups; having to worry about using protection during sex and about cigarette smoking; getting all those shots to prevent diseases and wearing helmets to prevent sports injuries; needing to eat all our vegetables and avoid sugar as well as not missing gym cl

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 15, 20081 topic

Comrade Lenin: Alive and Well

The New Russia may have finally embraced free-market capitalism, but Vladimir Lenin, founder of Soviet communism and one of the great murderers of the twentieth century, still casts a long shadow across the Russian landscape. Indeed, when I journeyed to Russia with my family last summer to research my forthcoming novel, Moscow Rules, it seemed Lenin was our constant companion. His statue still looms over the gates of the city that once bore his name, with its arm heroically e

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 1, 20081 topic

Confused by Fear

Why do we always worry about the wrong things? nConfused by Fear nnIt would be a lot easier to enjoy your day if there weren't so many things trying to kill you before sundown. The problems start before you're even fully awake. There's the fall out of bed that kills six hundred Americans each year. There's the early morning coronary, which is 30 to 50 percent likelier than the kind that strikes later in the day. There's the fatal tumble down the stairs, the bite of sausage th

Primary topic: Overcoming Fear

Overcoming Fear

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 26, 20081 topic

The No Complaining Rule

One Simple Rule is Having a Big Impact.nnI didn't invent the rule. I discovered it -- at a small, fast growing, highly successful company that implements simple practices with extraordinary results.nnOne day I was having lunch with Dwight Cooper, a tall, thin, mild-mannered former basketball player and coach who had spent the last 10 years building and growing a company he co-founded into one of the leading nurse staffing companies in the world. Dwight's company, PPR, was nam

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 24, 20081 topic

Meeting Your Change Muscle

During change, most of us feel weak and incapable. We haven't been told that we can get through things, so we automatically assume that we can't. But I'm here to remind you that you're much stronger than you've ever imagined. You've already been through many more changes than you realize, and you've helped hundreds of people through change just by being a friend You have been exercising your change muscle for your entire life. This muscle has nothing to do with how old, educa

Primary topic: Goal Setting

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 23, 20081 topic

Shrink Not -- Adjust the sail and seek The New Gold Standard of Leadership

Soaring gas prices and the US credit crunch have many business owners scurrying to reduce costs and "do more with less." But this natural and reflexive approach to economic uncertainty is often the worst path a business leader can take. In fact, while researching my recently released book The New Gold Standard: 5 Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Ed Staros, a founder of the modern-day Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 23, 20081 topic

Fallen Mann

The Mann Act, long relegated to the status of bawdy Frank Sinatra punch lines and literary asidesâLolitaâs Humbert Humbert deplores the law as âlending itself to a dreadful punââwas serious news recently for the first time in a century. In March, when Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of New York, pundits speculated that he might face criminal charges based on the law, passed in 1910, that forbade the interstate transportation of any woman or girl for âthe purpos

Primary topic: Book Reviews

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