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Three Steps to Avoid Burnout for Good
by Alice Turner / Stylist
(Health & Wellness February 24, 2024)
Feeling burnt out? A trending three-step method could help you deal with continual stress. Here, psychologist Dr Audrey Tang explains how it works…
Topics:
Advice, Guidance & Mentoring
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Attitudes
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Choices and Decision Making
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Coping
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Lifestyle, General
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Optimal Aging
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Wellness
Why I Sleep in a Separate Bed from My Husabnd
by Bryony Gordon / The Telegraph
(Health & Wellness June 10, 2023)
There’s an assumption that not sharing a bed is the death of a relationship but in many cases it can be the saviour…
Topics:
Contentment, Satsifaction
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Coping
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Love
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
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Wellness
How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
by Marta Zaraska / Quantum Magazine
(Health & Wellness March 4, 2023)
Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact…
Topics:
Coping
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Loneliness
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Mental Health
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Optimal Aging
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Research
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Science & Technology
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Wellness
How to Support Your Immune System When It's Running Low
by Chloe Gray / Stylist
(Health & Wellness August 12, 2022)
Here’s how to look after your immune system as flu season approaches…
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Advice, Guidance & Mentoring
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Coping
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COVID-19
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Disease
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Optimal Aging
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Research
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Wellness
Hope and Mental Health
by James N. Watkins
(Health & Wellness May 13, 2022)
Observing May as 'Mental Health Month,' Jim shares from his own experience on the subject…
Topics:
Circumstances, Life Events
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Coping
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Mental Health
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Optimal Aging
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Wisdom
Praise the Lord and Pass the Prozac
by Faith A. Watkins and David N. Watkins
(Health & Wellness January 28, 2022)
A sneak peak at a book of devotionals for mental health, coming in August…
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Advice, Guidance & Mentoring
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Bible
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Contemplation, Insight
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Coping
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Depresson
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Faith
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Health Care
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History
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Inspiration
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Learning
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Mental Health
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Optimal Aging
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Wellness
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Wisdom
Coping with Another Tough Winter
by Brad Stulberg / GO.com
(Health & Wellness January 22, 2022)
5 strategies from the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and sociology that have a lot to say about getting through hard times…
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Advice, Guidance & Mentoring
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Coping
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COVID-19
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Research
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Seasons
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Weather
COVID Will Become Endemic
by Maryn McKenna / Wired
(Health & Wellness January 7, 2022)
The world must decide what that means…
Topics:
Coping
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COVID-19
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Current Events, News
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Disease
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News
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Trends
Don't Be Surprised When You Get Omicron
by Yasmin Tayag / The Atlantic
(Health & Wellness December 19, 2021)
With the Omicron variant, America is in for a lot more breakthrough infections. Here’s what to do if you fall sick…
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Coping
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COVID-19
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Crisis
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Disease
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News
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Trends
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Wellness
Normal?
by Leona Bergstrom
(My World September 3, 2021)
Anything but…
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Change
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Coping
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COVID-19
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Hopes & Dreams
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Learning
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Opportunity
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Optimal Aging
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Social Issues
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Stress
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Wellness
The Staggering, Exhausting, Invisible Costs of Caring for America's Elderly
by Anne Helen Peterson / Vox
(Finance and Legal August 28, 2021)
As millions 'age in place,' millions more must figure out how to provide their loved ones with increasingly complex care…
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Circumstances, Life Events
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Coping
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Cost of Living
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Crisis
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Financial
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Health Care
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Legal
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Optimal Aging
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Social Issues
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Statistics
Caution During Reopening
by Abby Haglage / yahoo!Life
(Health & Wellness June 13, 2020)
CDC provides new guidance to avoid COVD-19 surge during reopening
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Coping
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COVID-19
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Current Events, News
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Disease
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News
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Racism and Inequality
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Relationships
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Wellness
Managing Your Coronavirus Fears
by Rusty Wright
(My World April 4, 2020)
Facing the chaos with facts, confidence, and faith…
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Comfort & Consolation
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Coping
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COVID-19
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Crisis
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Current Events, News
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Disease
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Faith
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News
Calling on the Ghostbusters Among Us
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons March 21, 2020)
Reflecting on the coronavirus crisis…
Topics:
Coping
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COVID-19
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Crisis
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Current Events, News
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Faith
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Fears, Concerns
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News
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Wellness
Mind Cancer Awareness Month
by James N. Watkins
(Health & Wellness November 9, 2019)
Jim declares the need to pay attention to our mental health…
Topics:
Coping
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Social Issues
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Stress
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Wellness
Silence
by Dan Seagren
(Health & Wellness September 8, 2019)
It can be golden, but…
Topics:
Coping
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Health Care
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Relationships
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Wellness
I Forgot!
by Ken Potts
(Health & Wellness January 27, 2019)
Humility grows as memory fades…
Topics:
Coping
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Memory (failing, improving)
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
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Wellness
Help, Lord, I'm Falling Apart!
by Stu Johnson
(Health & Wellness October 22, 2017)
Calling on faith when your body starts to fail
Topics:
Coping
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Disease
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Faith
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Health Care
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
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Wellness
When Someone You Know Struggles with Fear, Anxiety, and Stress
by Stanley Popovich
(Health & Wellness June 26, 2016)
While professional help is paramount, there are things you can do…
Topics:
Coping
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Depresson
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Fears, Concerns
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Relationships
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Wellness
Never Lose Hope Dealing with Fears and Anxieties
by Stanley Popovich
(Health & Wellness June 19, 2016)
You never know when the answers will come to your doorstep…
Topics:
Coping
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Depresson
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Fears, Concerns
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Hopes & Dreams
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Wellness
Managing the Fear and Anxiety of the Unknown
by Stanley Popovich
(Health & Wellness June 12, 2016)
When you face the unknown, does it inspire excitement or fear and worry?…
Topics:
Coping
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Depresson
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Future
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Wellness
A Review of Techniques in Managing Depression
by Stanley Popovich
(Health & Wellness June 5, 2016)
You don't need to let depression and fear get the best of you…
Topics:
Coping
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Depresson
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Wellness
Managing Your Persistent Fears, Anxieties and Stresses
by Stanley Popovich
(Health & Wellness May 29, 2016)
Technique to help you cope…
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Coping
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Depresson
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Lifestyle, General
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Stress
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Wellness
I Can't Hear You
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments February 21, 2016)
Hearing difficulties take an enormous toll but new advances can be beneficial…
Topics:
Communication
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Coping
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Health Care
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Wellness
Dancing with the Scars
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons October 2, 2011)
A call to let God lead in the midst of loss…
Topics:
Coping
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Faith
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God
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Work
Waiting for Easter at Christmastime
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons December 12, 2010)
The plight of ALS victims…
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Coping
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Disease
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Faith
Chronic Illness
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments October 4, 2009)
Increasingly, a diagnosis of chronic illness occurs in mid-life, adding tremendous stress to marriages…
Topics:
Coping
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Disease
More About Dimentia
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments October 14, 2007)
Dementia is not a very pleasant thought…but there are a few things we can do about it…
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Coping
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Disease
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Health Care
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Wellness
My Medicine Cabinet
by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments December 3, 2006)
Seniors, we're told, love medicines. Often, the more the better. If a physician says "take two aspirins and go to bed" we're liable to reason "if I take three or four it ought to be better."…
Topics:
Coping
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Health Care
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Wellness
The Letter
by Greg Asimakoupoulos
(Rhymes & Reasons October 22, 2006)
A poem for Breast Cancer Awareness Month…
Topics:
Coping
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Disease
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Faith