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The Power of the Middle Ground | February 16, 2010

The Power of the Middle Ground
A Couple’s Guide to Renewing Your Relationship By Marty Babits, LCSW, BCD

The Power of the Middle Ground explains as no other self-help book does why and how the inherent difficulties entailed in the change process itself are daunting. Author Marty Babits, a seasoned couples therapist and educator, explains strategies and provides tips for grappling successfully with the challenges that change presents. This key aspect of working through relationship difficulties has, until now, been given short shrift in the popular and academic literature. Despite the central place of divorce in our culture, he teaches couples how … Read More »


 

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Your Newborn and Sleep | February 15, 2010

By Kim West, LCSW-C, Author of The Sleep Lady®’s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy

As a parent, you will learn that children need a certain amount of rules and structure. Not rigidity for the sake of rigidity, but a framework to give them predictability and security. And as a family therapist and sleep expert who has worked with thousands of parents, I’ve realized that parents need rules and structure too! So here are eight “rules” for parents of newborns These rules won’t get little tiny babies to … Read More »


 

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We Interupt This Date | February 11, 2010

L.C. Evans knew when she was eight-years-old that she wanted to be a writer. She grew up in a small Florida town where she read every book in the children’s library at least three times before she was in third grade. Then she started writing her own stories. She now lives in North Carolina with her husband Bob and their three Chihuahuas. Though L.C. is the author of many published mystery stories and children’s stories, she has also published four novels. We Interrupt This Date is her most recent. Written in 2008 and published in 2009, the idea for the … Read More »


 

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Book Giveaway: Sonnets For Sinners | February 11, 2010

THE SONG OF SIN: A delicious romp in the grove of forbidden love

“Poets confirm what cynical psychologists say: there’s one person we’re destined to love, and if we ever meet that paramour, we’re done for,” writes author and poet John Wareham as he leads us on a delightfully delirious journey of lovers grasped in the clutch of stolen passion in SONNETS FOR SINNERS: Everything One Needs to Know About Illicit Love.

The sonnets in this tiny tome include entries from Shakespeare, Yeats and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Prince Charles, Lady Diana and Elizabeth Edwards and now includes … Read More »


 

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Intentionality and Food | February 10, 2010

By Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D., Author of The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones: A Holistic Approach

“Made with love” is an ingredient I have often seen on home-made packaged cookies and other home-made foods in health food stores. It always seems like a sweet and nice thing to say, but without real meaning, a friendly, new-agey kind of sentiment. Turns out it’s quite real, and measurable.

Let me set the context for this column for you. At this time, I am the president of a small non-profit organization called Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (FIONS). The organization it sprang … Read More »


 

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LOVE WINS Releasing Romantic Illusions | February 9, 2010

By Gabrielle Bernstein, author of ADD MORE ~ing TO YOUR LIFE: A HIP GUIDE TO HAPPINESS.

For the majority of my life, navigating romantic relationships was like trying to reverse the Titanic. My past romances were filled with tons of mini dramas and fearful illusions. I exuded fear and grasped unto relationships for my dear life. This behavior was very unattractive. I thought I’d never “figure it out.” I often wondered why some of my girlfriends had such an easy time in relationships while many of us were left in the dark struggling to make sense of it all.

Then one afternoon, … Read More »


 

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“Waste Not, Want Not” and Make it Delicious! | February 3, 2010

“Waste Not, Want Not” and Make it Delicious!
By Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali, Author of Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes

There is no more appropriate time than now to think about how and why we cook. Food is a way of connecting with the people who surround us. Through it, we communicate emotions like love, compassion and understanding, and there is no better opportunity to communicate with our children than at the table. It’s where we can discuss our values of life that are important to us as individuals, … Read More »


 

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IN TREACHERY, THERE IS NO HONOR | February 2, 2010

Author J.R. Reardon releases her highly-anticipated legal thriller, DISHONORED

Author J.R. Reardon has been licensed to practice law since December of 1996, although she has “talked law” at the Thanksgiving dinner table for as long as she can remember. The granddaughter of the late Federal Judge John J. McNaught who sat on the District Court in Massachusetts, the daughter of Attorney Stephen R. McNaught of Stoneham, Massachusetts, and the wife of Inspector-Attorney David M. Reardon, it was no great surprise to close family and friends that she would eventually pen a legal thriller or two.

In Reardon’s latest book, DISHONORED, Federal Court … Read More »