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Let's Say You're a Dog. Are You So Competitive You'd Eat a Carrot

Seems like a girl always learns something out on the farm! Yes, it’s a farm tale and I’m going to change the names of the animals to protect the guilty!I spent last weekend down in Lower Alabama where my friend from high school owns a farm. On th...

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What I Learned From A Parakeet

I want to tell you about the lesson that I learned from my parakeet.Yes, I did say that I learned something from a parakeet. I suppose thatit is possible that I have too much time on my hands. Moving on... My parakeet is named Yazzie. Yazzie is Navaj...

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7 Ways To Put Your Life On A Diet

Life is hard enough without piling more and moreexpectations on yourself. It's like trying to diet in achocolate factory! Instead try these 7 ways to help youlighten up, reduce worry, and give yourself a break. You'llcome out on the other s...

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Be Empathetic Not Sympathetic

Be Empathetic Not SympatheticPut yourself in the other’s shoes, but don’t walk their path for themIsn’t Sympathy a Good Thing?“Oh you poor thing. What happened to you is just terrible! You must feel awful. I wish there was something I could d...

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Is It A Crisis Or Does It Just Feel Like One

Part one of a series on psychotherapyContrary to the way most of us think about crises, genuine crises are few and far between. Life or death situations such as serious illness, a bad accident, or a suicide attempt are crises that must be dealt with ...

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Worry and Anxiety Help

"A god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) It does a lot more than that, Benjamin! The harm that worry cause...

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ISLAM AND INTERNAL PEACE

We are living in an age of conflicts and tensions.Internal peace and happiness are really seeked for by many people.A human needs to live in tranquality,real tranquality that is perminent and not drug-induced.But fear of injust superior powers,failur...

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Hazing Child Play or Violent Crime

On a startling Court TV program, Al Roker investigated the horrors of 'hazing' reportedly not only in College sororities and fraternities, but even in high schools across the country. The program was extremely revealing and shocking as it ...

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Where does your security lie part one 1

This story has been told thousands of times with many variations.Recently, one senior villager In Benin,Nigeria West Africa Related to the following version to some younger ones.The fisherman returns home in his pirogue and is met by a foreign expert...

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Does size really matter

Bigger is better. Isn't that the American dream? Why buy a road-hogging, critter-squishing, bumper-defying, wall-of-metal SUV when you have the delicious option of buying a BIGGER road-hogging, critter-squishing, bumper-defying, wall-of-metal SU...

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