From Two Women Who Should Know
By Dr. Vivian Diller and Dr. Jill Muir-Sukenick
Authors of Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change

We are often asked how the psychological six steps we describe in our book, Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change, translate into practical ways to feel and look more attractive. So, we put together some tips that once were useful to us in our former careers as models. They are even more useful more so now as our own looks are changing! They were designed in conjunction with the internal changes … Read More »

In these last weeks of Winter, the dark, snowy, and rainy days can really make us feel depressed and go stir crazy.  One of the ways in which to combat these feelings can be through the use of color.   Science tells us that the colors we see in our environment including what we wear and the hues of light around us are all absorbed by our bodies and interpreted by our brains and produce certain feelings in us.

According to Wikipedia, “The science of color, called chromatics, includes the perception of color by the human eye and brain.”  For centuries, the … Read More »

by Susan J. Elliott, JD, MEd, author of GETTING PAST YOUR BREAKUP: How to Turn a Devastating Loss into the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You.

William Shakespeare said to give sorrow words for “the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.”  In short, express your heartache otherwise your heart will not heal.

After a breakup you may cry for a while and then try to “stiff upper lip” it or go out and find a new love long before you are ready.  The grief process hurts and most of us try to avoid it.  … Read More »

I realized the other day that I’ve not been practicing what I’ve been preaching lately.  In sharing ideas with a client on achieving balance in her own life (juggling work, kids, a husband, community involvement, etc.), I discovered that I, too, could benefit from my own advice.

I’ve always been a workhorse, and now that what started out as a hobby as become a full-time career, I spend far too much time ‘at work’ (in front of my computer, on the phone, out-and-about networking, etc.)   Don’t get me wrong – I love what I do, but it’s work nonetheless, and it … Read More »

Being a working, single mother, can be a tough job on the best of days. But being an ambitious, involved, working, writing, guest speaking, single mother is even tougher. Believe me I’m not trying to toot any horns here. I’m writing this because I’m sure you understand.

You can insert your own descriptors, but you’re probably juggling as many roles in the course of a day as I have been. We all do it. Our society places an inordinate value on being “busy.” Business is worn like a badge of honor.

Or at least I was. And all of my conversations started … Read More »