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On Oct. 8 you will be able to begin six experiential workshops of the Better Tomorrows Program — and complete them at your own pace.
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Newest Special Features
Visual Viewpoints
Rather than give you four pictures with each newsletter (a project that was more time-consuming than I expected), I am sharing pictures that I am going to hang in my home. These "visual viewpoints" will tell you a little about me — and will also provide content for the blog while I am working on the Better Tomorrows Program. See the first of these pictures on the Visual Viewpoints pages and then check the blog beginning August 27 for additional photos.
Visitor's Survey
Receive the first two chapters of Ask
Yourself Questions and Change Your Life free
— plus the chance to win a print copy of the book! — just
by taking two or three minutes to answer a questionnaire.
Ten Questions Worth Considering
Visitors to the blog voted for "What is your definition
of success?" as the tenth questions in a very special feature in which you
are invited to participate. If you are interested in having your answers
appear on Support4Change (and perhaps in an e-book in a couple years),
take a look. The questions, and the answers, are definitely worth considering.
Articles and Book Reviews
Meeting a Grandson I Wasn't Sure I Had
This is an excellent illustration of the complexity of many family relationships today. And it also shows how the Internet can play a role in bringing families together.
A Lot Can Happen in Fourteen Years
I've finally gotten around to writing a second epilogue for Letting Go of Our Adult Children. And if you haven't read the first one, see A Wedding Guaranteed to Be Unlike Any You've Attended.
Busy
Women Can Be Mindful
Too AND Guilt-free
Mindfulness
Sue
Patton Thoele suggests
that people like her, who
are trying to live mindfully,
might make better progress
if they "started a
new 12-step program called
SAA: Stimulation Addicts
Anonymous." Well,
if it feels as though
you, too, could use such
a support group, you will
appreciate this excerpt
from her book,
The
Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices
for Restoring Calm, Finding
Balance, and Opening Your
Heart.
A Woman's Call to the Ministry
This is the first chapter of A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit by Sarah Sentilles, who shows us how committed women must be if they are to lead a congregation.
Working Mothers: Having Multiple Roles
How are
some working moms able to
balance raising
children and holding down
a job? This article, by
a therapist who is also a
mother, explores how some
are able to handle multiple
roles successfully.
Hidden
Fear of Abandonment
Barry
and Joyce Vissell, a husband
and wife marriage counseling
team, point out that while
sometimes the fear of abandonment
is more obvious in one person
than in another, if you look
deeper, you will see that
we all experience this fear.
They offer a way to help
one another find healing
of this common
problem in life.
Recent Blog Entries You May Have Missed
The Power of Words offers an award-winning video that demonstrates the impact words can have on our actions
Brief Notes for the Fourth of July encourages you to consider carefully what you really mean by patriotism
Accepting Our Parents' Blessings When Our Parents Are Less Than Perfect explores the difficulty of genuinely wishing parents a happy Mother's Day or Father's Day when we hold onto resentments of the past.
Stopping Perfectionism Takes Time uses my experience to show how difficult it is to recognize when we are going overboard.
Taxpayer's Challenge: A simplified version of the Tax-and-Spend Game
An E-mail Challenge for all of us who are tempted to forward an e-mail without checking the facts.
Additional Material Presented in the Latest Newsletter
(in case you aren't a subscriber)
NOTE: You can always read archived newsletters
Getting our brains ready for the new age introduces you to the new Imagery section, now titled Exercising the Right Side of Your Brain, Part One of Images and Symbols: The Glue of Habit, the Lubricant of Change. Read the first part of this book online and look for the announcement of the manual created for therapists, coaches, and their clients.
Catalina Nocturn is the chosen picture for the Stepping Into Pictures feature
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