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How To Find Your REAL Self Again

On the surface it seems an odd idea that you couldactually be anything other than who you really are. Butfrom the time we can talk, we're being programmed to"fit in". We find ourselves conforming in order toplease the people we love, and who lov...

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Forgive ... not Seven Times, but Seventy-Seven Times

Yes, it was a difficult weekend. I had houseguests, and one of them has truly been wronged. Not once, but many times. Not by strangers, but by his own family. Not long ago, but long ago and recently.It made me angry just to hear the stories, though h...

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An Excerpt from THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy

The women I interviewed caused me to look at my clients in new ways. As Proust states, "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." I discovered many aspects of enchantment in my clients as I began to...

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Hurting from the Outside In The Rise of Self-harming

Ask any teacher or adolescent counselor what the most disturbing trend they are seeing in teens today is, and they are likely to tell you it's the growing number of "cutters". By cutters, they mean people who hurt themselves or "self-injure" a t...

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The REAL Secret of Success

I used to see a chiropractor who handed out a little leaflet entitled “Dr. Hickman’s Guide to Success in Business.” It was very nice, had his picture on the front and was professionally printed. On the inside it said, “Get a job and go to wor...

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Why you don't need Motivation

As a life coach, I often hear people say they lack motivation – in fact, the “motivation discussion” is almost a ritual with my new clients. You really want something, in fact you almost need it, but you just don’t have the drive to get to it...

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How to Get Anything You Want

How can you create what you don't think you can have? How can you make your dreams come true? Excited to experiment with my passion, animal communication, I'd found a job at a dog kennel, exchanging 25 hours a week of labor for an apartment...

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6 Steps To Overcoming Your Worst Habit

How ashamed are you of your habit? How much do you want to get over this habit? Thinking about the amount of "satisfaction" you gain from your habit, where would you place it on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is the highest? The apparent satisfaction t...

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How To Choose A Competent Therapist

Publishing Guidelines: You have permission to publish thisarticle electronically or in print, free of charge, as longas the resource box is included. A courtesy copy of yourpublication would be appreciated.Title: HOW TO CHOOSE A COMPETENT THERAPISTAu...

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Penta'tude - The five 'tudes of your success

Penta’tude – the five ‘tudes of your successBy Tracy BrinkmannIn 1941 Major General Hugh ‘Pat’ Casey designed the Pentagon in only three days. Construction began thirty days later and sixteen months after that on January 15, 1943 this now w...

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