We Borrowed a Shelter Dog to Go Hiking. You Can — And Totally Should — Too
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The 9 Most Overlooked Threats to a Marriage
Kelly M. Flanagan, Clinical Psychologist, Writer, Blogger writes: As a therapist, I can teach a couple how to communicate in an hour. It’s not complicated. But dealing with the troublemakers who started the fight? Well, that takes a lifetime. And yet. It’s a lifetime that forms us into people who are becoming ever more loving …
It’s De-Lovely and marriage
I recently watched the film De-Lovely, a 2004 musical biopic of Cole Porter, from his first meeting with Linda Lee Thomas until his death. The Cole Porter songs throughout are a delight in themselves, and, because of the story, the ambiguity of many of the lyrics becomes clearer. What I found most fascinating, from a …
Webster’s Finest Forgotten Words
October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster. Born in Connecticut in 1758, Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, in 1806, but it was his two-volume American Dictionary of the English Language published in 1828 (when he was 70 years old) …
DR. SANJAY GUPTA: When Illness Triggers Depression
For people diagnosed with a physical condition or coping with chronic illness, depression can be a common complication. According to figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 50 percent of asthma patients suffer from depressive symptoms, one in six people who have had a heart attack have major depression, and people …
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Atkinson: I Love My Husband, But Here’s Why I Want to Cheat
I was afraid of love. I know it might look like I was looking for love, but I was really following what A Course in Miracles describes as “the ego’s dictate”: seek and do not find. What drove this attraction, as it has done many others before, was a hidden belief that love is dangerous. …
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