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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 18, 20071 topic

Ten Tips For Better Sex And Deeper Intimacy

Tantra is an ancient Indian tradition that recognizes sexual energy as a source of personal and spiritual empowerment. Sexual energy does not necessarily mean sexual activity but rather, the life force that exists in everything. Indeed, Tantric practices can enrich your relationship and all aspects of your life. Consciously exploring pleasure, sexuality and intimacy is an easy way to start. Doing so will enable you to find more satisfaction and a deeper sense of connection. H

Primary topic: Sexuality

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 7, 20081 topic

Living Well -- Diet And Nutrition

33 How do I know when I should see a registered dietitian?nnSee a registered dietitian (RD) when your diabetes is first diagnosed, when a new doctor changes your treatment plan, or twice a year for a routine review of your meal plan and goals. See the RD more often if:nn• You want to improve diabetes control.nn• You experience lifestyle or schedule changes, such as a new job, marriage, or pregnancy.nn• Your nutritional needs keep changing (this is true for c

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 28, 20071 topic

10 Strategies: An Overview

Fast Profits in Hard Times will teach you everything you need to know and give you specific resources (websites, toll-free numbers, etc) to implement the following 10 strategies:nn1. Invest in Tax LiensnBuy liens placed on properties by municipalities because owners have fallen behind in paying their property taxes. Then, when the property owners pay what they owe to the municipalities, receive not only a return of your principal but also a penalty interest rate set by the mu

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 27, 20081 topic

Bringing Baby Home: Your Postpartum Plan

You went in to this pregnancy with one goal in mind; bringing a new baby into your home. One of the most important ways you can prepare for this enormous event is to make plans for those first six weeks after delivery. Bringing a baby home is not about what color is right for the nursery or do the socks I bought match the outfit Aunt Doris sent? There are more important issues to consider before you carry that cuddly sweet bundle across the threshold.nnThe most important plan

Primary topic: Pregnancy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJan 31, 20081 topic

5 Steps To Optimizing Your Website

The majority of Web site owners have fewer than 10 incoming links to their sites. The search engines view incoming links as verification that your site has quality content. The more related links your site has from other sites (with the underlined clickable text that includes your targeted keywords), the higher your ranking in the search engines will be. Here is a step-by-step overview of this entire SEO process: nnSelect your keywords. Use tools such as the Overture Search T

Primary topic: Business Networking

Business Networking

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 22, 20081 topic

Skirts in the Boardroom

I was raised around a lot of guys. I was the only girl. My brothers and cousins even started a club called BAM -- Boys Against Marshawn! Most of my mentors have been males. This has made me an extreme alpha personality, and very competitive. Some women, and many men, view this competitive nature as a threat. It wouldn't be in a man; it would be revered and praised. But as a woman, the alpha personality can often be seen as a liability. If I were to believe this, it would deme

Primary topic: Women's Issues

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonMar 17, 20081 topic

The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die

What are the secrets to happiness and meaning? Why do some people find a deep sense of purpose while they are here and die with few regrets while others end their lives bitter and disappointed?nnAbout two years ago I set out to answer that question by asking several thousand people to identify the one person they knew who had lived a long life and found true happiness. It seemed to me that each of us knows at least one person who achieved true success. After receiving over 1,

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 1, 20081 topic

Confused by Fear

Why do we always worry about the wrong things? nConfused by Fear nnIt would be a lot easier to enjoy your day if there weren't so many things trying to kill you before sundown. The problems start before you're even fully awake. There's the fall out of bed that kills six hundred Americans each year. There's the early morning coronary, which is 30 to 50 percent likelier than the kind that strikes later in the day. There's the fatal tumble down the stairs, the bite of sausage th

Primary topic: Overcoming Fear

Overcoming Fear

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 14, 20081 topic

Social-Media Impact: Balancing Metrics And Insight For Advertising Success

Brands can benefit from advertising in social-media space. The approaches offer a means to engage consumers, enhance brand reputation and image, build positive brand attitudes, improve organic search rankings, and drive traffic to brand locations, both on- and off-line. The steps in any advertising campaign will begin with setting campaign objectives and end with assessing the effectiveness of the strategies and tactics to determine the degree of success in accomplishing the

Primary topic: Business Networking

Business Networking

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonApr 8, 20091 topic

When the Wheels Come Off

I grew up in the 70's and 80's when parents still told their kids to go outside and play. My friends and I would spend all day in the yard and when we got hot and sweaty enough we'd run to the back patio, open the water spigot on the side of the house and get down on our hands and knees so we could get low enough to turn our mouths up for a drink of water that splashed all over our faces and down our necks. In the evenings I remember seeing my parents shaking their heads as t

Primary topic: Family

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 9, 20081 topic

A Jewish Graveyard and a Battlefield

November 30th, 2008 -- Today was our last day in Medina, the city of the Prophet, before we head to Mecca, the center of the Islamic world. My mother has adjusted well and is beginning to overcome her phobia of crowds. We have had the good fortune of meeting friendly Muslim women who have taken my mom under their wing and eased her into the hectic experience of the holy city. They have taken her to the mosque with them every day, as I can only accompany her part of the way, t

Primary topic: Religion

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 12, 20071 topic

Boom!: Voices Of The Sixties

In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of one hundred dollars a week, because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less. Meredith, who had a superior college record, couldn't find any work because, as one personnel director after another told her, "You're a young bride. If we hire you, you'll just get pregnant before long and want maternity leave." nnIn retrospect, the political

Primary topic: Book Reviews

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 25, 20071 topic

Gautama Buddha- Book Excerpt

Gautama BuddhanBorn 563 B.C.nDied 483 B.C. (Approximate Dates)nnBuddha was born a privileged prince named Siddhartha Gautama in Nepal. He lived a luxurious life with his wife, Princess Yasodhara, till the age of twenty-nine, when he realized he’d never stepped foot outside the palace gates and might actually like to take a look around. Seeing poverty and death for the first time, he began to wonder not only how the other half lives, but how to attain a state beyond birt

Primary topic: Enlightenment

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 6, 20081 topic

Your Sexy Self

Here are a few tips for dealing with your post-pregnancy body and keeping the spark alive:nn• Review your expectations. If you were under the impression that you'd slip right back into your hippest pair of jeans right after the baby was born, you may need to accept that for most women, this just isn't realistic. Sure, there are the lucky few who can be seen lounging poolside in sexy bikinis three or four weeks post-baby, but if you're reading this, you are probably not

Primary topic: Pregnancy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJan 25, 20081 topic

The Open Brand Framework

Are you ready to open? nnIf so, we've put together a strategic framework that capitalizes on both the social web's traits and technologies and the icitizenry's power to be both medium and message. nnTwo trends in particular anchor the open brand framework: nThe first is the emergence of consumer notoriety through the increased visibility of individuals -- as data, as consumer profiles, as artists or entrepreneurs no longer reliant upon paid third parties to be "known" to the

Primary topic: Marketing Strategy

Marketing Strategy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 25, 20071 topic

A Meditation on Love

When people talk about where they find beauty, what is beautiful to them, they reveal whom they love and how they love, and what they love to do.nnListening as people recollect and offer their own beauty stories, I am in awe of the ways that beauty moves in our lives. Everyone who has a family, or loves an animal or a place or a piece of music, has a beauty story to tell. A man reflects on the challenge of keeping Eros alive in a long marriage, a woman speaks of what it was l

Primary topic: Beauty

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonFeb 7, 20081 topic

Presidential Leadership Brand

We are in the midst of selecting a candidate for president. Each candidate has articulated positions on important issues â¦ economy, terrorism, war, immigration, healthcare, and so forth. While these specific issues matter, we know that we donât know all the demands our next President will face. Eight years ago, who could have predicted the Iraqi war and occupation, Katrina, global economic conditions, and other national and international crises? In the absence of knowing

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 23, 20081 topic

Fallen Mann

The Mann Act, long relegated to the status of bawdy Frank Sinatra punch lines and literary asidesâLolitaâs Humbert Humbert deplores the law as âlending itself to a dreadful punââwas serious news recently for the first time in a century. In March, when Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of New York, pundits speculated that he might face criminal charges based on the law, passed in 1910, that forbade the interstate transportation of any woman or girl for âthe purpos

Primary topic: Book Reviews

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 15, 20081 topic

A Rosh Hoshana Eid

Last week marked the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. I was particularly pleased that its end coincided with Rosh Hoshana. As a bonus, Eid, the festival following Ramadan, coincided with Gandhi’s birthday. It all seemed fitting, somehow, emphasizing our participation in an American tradition that's larger than the sum of our own traditions.nnGrowing up in Southern California at a time when I was often the only Muslim around, I often felt alone in the circle

Primary topic: Religion

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 7, 20081 topic

Women: How To Stop Starving Yourself Of Success

When we talk about starvation, or eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, we’re normally referring to behavior relating to food. For example, when someone is said to have the condition called anorexia, we are typically describing a behavior pattern marked by an aversion to or pushing away of food. When someone has bulimia, it typically means behavior characterized by the bingeing and purging of food (gorging on food and then inducing vomiting).nnBut when I first bec

Primary topic: Success Principles

Success Principles

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonMay 14, 20081 topic

An Unnecessary Gamble: The Biggest Mistake In Retirement Investing

One of the most common mistakes made in the retirement investing world, particularly among 401(k) participants, is over-concentration in an employer's stock. In an analysis of more than 100,000 401(k) participants from companies offering stock in their 401(k) plan, more than 54 percent of employees had stock concentration levels that were greater than 20 percent of their total account, an amount that is enough to significantly decrease their median forecasts. In fact, loading

Primary topic: Investing

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 6, 20081 topic

Frequently Asked Questions

It's only been two days since I started breastfeeding and my breasts are killing me. Why?nnOnce your milk starts to come. in, and the milk volume quickly increases -- which usually occurs sometime during the first week after delivery -- your breasts have a tendency to become overfilled, or "engorged," and this can be quite painful. It may take a while for your body to learn how to regulate your milk production and for you to get the hang of breastfeeding. Until then, it is ea

Primary topic: Pregnancy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 3, 20081 topic

What Do Your Children Need To Know To Succeed in Today's World? And What Can You Do to Help Them At School And At Home?

The world is changing at an extraordinary pace. Twenty-five years ago, most young people who mastered the "3 r's" of reading, writing, and arithmetic and had a high school diploma were likely to be able to get and keep a decent job. Not so today. In research for my new book, I've come to understand that there are seven "survival skills" all young people need to master for success in today's world. The skills needed for careers, college, and citizenship have converged. Student

Primary topic: Achievement

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonMar 18, 20081 topic

Can Bad News (Really) Be Good News?

We're up to our eyeballs in The Information Age. This certainly shouldn't be news to anyone given the fact that we can't seem to get away from the 24/7 world that technology has afforded us. There is news, views, and supposition coming at us from every angle, including on-line versions of traditional media like newspapers and magazines, millions of websites, 24-hour TV news, emails, text messages, cell phones, satellite uplinks that connect us to far corners of the world, and

Primary topic: Financial Freedom

Financial Freedom

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 27, 20081 topic

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 (Wife In The North Excerpt)

Absent with LeavennMy husband left for London for two weeks. Let me see, how long have we lived here. Oh yes, three weeks. How pregnant am I? Seven months. How many children do I have? Two and a bit. Do I want to be here? No. Excellent. He has a deadline, he always seems to have a deadline. He is the one who wants to live up here, yet he is the one who has to work away for weeks at a time. I knew he would have to go back soon after we moved; he can do part of his job down the

Primary topic: Friendship & Loneliness

Friendship & Loneliness

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 12, 20081 topic

Prologue

Walter Martineck hardly knows Drew Peterson, a retired police sergeant in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, but he's a good friend of Peterson's stepbrother, Tom Morphey. So it was that Martineck found himself unwittingly drawn into the events of October 28, 2007, the day Peterson's young wife, Stacy, was last seen. The prologue that follows is a dramatization based on an account Morphey reportedly gave to police, as well as statements Martineck made in the media regarding h

Primary topic: Women's Issues

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 6, 20071 topic

Rejected? Throw A Party!

You’re going to be rejected in life, heck it happens to me all the time. And if you haven’t experienced much rejection, I’ll bet you’re not taking many risks. Without taking risks you’ll lead a safe, predictable, and somewhat boring life. So let’s learn how to rock rejection. Read on.n nI’ve been rejected zillions of times… such as when I was a 16 year old runaway in New York City. Of course I hadn’t figured out how I&#821

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonMar 24, 20081 topic

Secret To A Successful Divorce: Instead Of An Attorney Use Self-Help, Mediation Or Collaborative Law

As a family-law attorney for over 35 years, I can tell you that the secret to a successful divorce is to minimize your involvement with the legal system and to avoid using lawyers who work in it. Where one spouse is a controller abuser -- 5 to 10 percent of all cases -- this advice does not apply, but for everyone else, going to an attorney as your first step is the worst thing you can possibly do and court is the worst possible place to settle divorce disagreements.nnHereâ

Primary topic: Divorce

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 5, 20081 topic

How Is Sally Now?

Many people ask me, after reading Hurry Down Sunshine, how Sally is doing now. The book tells the story of Sally's first manic attack at the age of fifteen, during the summer of 1996 in New York City. My aim was to recreate the experience of Sally's astonishing leap into psychosis from both inside and out, and to show its effect on those of us who are closest to her. Writing Hurry Down Sunshine, I sometimes felt as if I was describing a great storm: an unexpected wind had com

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonMar 25, 20081 topic

Your Divorce: Itâs About Time! (And Children) (And Money)

To have a better divorce, you need to take some time to read, think about and act on the advice in my book, Make Any Divorce Better, and the specific steps you can take. No matter what your situation, if you follow my advice, things will soon get better. nnAs a family law attorney for over 35 years, I can tell you that unless you face a serious emergency like those in my online âemergenciesâ article, then nThe worst thing you can do is run to an attorney before you are mo

Primary topic: Divorce

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 16, 20071 topic

Broken: Book Excerpt

ProloguennOctober 1994nnThere was a sharp rap on the door, followed by a muffled but unmistakable command from a voice outside in the hallway.nn"We want the white guy, just the white guy. We know he's in there. He comes out now and there's no trouble for anyone later."nnI was the "white guy." I knew in that instant that my family's desperate search to track me down had ended at this decayed two-story apartment in a violent pocket of Atlanta's inner city. Terrified, I rushed a

Primary topic: Addiction and Recovery

Addiction and Recovery

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 18, 20071 topic

The Path of Unconditional Happiness

The highest spiritual path is life itself. If you know how to live daily life, it all becomes a liberating experience. But first you have to approach life properly, or it can be very confusing. To begin with, you have to realize that you really only have one choice in this life, and it's not about your career, whom you want to marry, or whether you want to seek God. People tend to burden themselves with so many choices. But, in the end, you can throw it all away and just make

Primary topic: Happiness

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 3, 20081 topic

Advice From The Underbelly

When I was pregnant with my first child, I had no absolutely no idea what to expect. I went about my business as if nothing was different. At work I'd occasionally glance down at my growing belly as thoughts of chubby, quiet, smiling babies dressed in all-white filled my mind. I had convinced myself that my life wouldn't really change.nnFast forward a few months -- I was sitting in my infant daughter's room and we were both crying. She was crying because she needed a new diap

Primary topic: Pregnancy

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonApr 3, 20081 topic

But Donât Forget Money

If people are Nice, Trusted, Proud, and Included, then the Recognition will certainly follow. And that doesnât mean strictly dollars and cents.nnOur strong feeling is that money is not the main reason people choose where they work for life -- for a career. After all, money canât compensate for your bossâs ignoring you and it surely canât cancel out having to work beside boorish and ill-mannered colleagues. Thatâs why people say of an offensive boss, âI wouldnât

Primary topic: Management Skills

Management Skills

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 15, 20081 topic

Divas, They're Just Like You and Me

Do you demand only the finest 1000 thread count Egyptian Cotton sheets or require that your bath be drawn only with bottled spring water? Do you insist that your coffee be stirred only counter‐clockwise? If so, then, like many celebrities, you're a diva. Are you surprised to learn that you don't need to be famous to be a diva? Don't be, because divas, they're just like you and me.nnLike many Americans who try to stay tuned in to the popular culture, I rely on a number o

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonNov 29, 20071 topic

Focusing On The Essentials

Do you think you know a leader when you see one? Most companies have the wrong notion of what a leader really is and does. Yet all the development efforts in the world can't deepen the leadership pool if they're focused on the wrong people to begin with. nnThe brilliant strategist, the creative genius, the financial engineer, and other bright people command attention and respect, and rightfully so. People recognize such individuals' knowledge and intelligence, respect their o

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 5, 20081 topic

Healthy, Wealthy And Wise?

By the author of Forgive Us Our DebtsnnWhat two vital features of American national life are inordinately costly compared to any other country, no longer deliver world-beating results, are increasingly inequitable, are highly dysfunctional, and elicit growing anger from much of the country’s population?nnIt’s not a trick question, but the very fact of these parallels is more than worth pondering.nnThe answer -- the two H’s of health care and higher education

Primary topic: Health Products and Services

Health Products and Services

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJun 23, 20081 topic

Shrink Not -- Adjust the sail and seek The New Gold Standard of Leadership

Soaring gas prices and the US credit crunch have many business owners scurrying to reduce costs and "do more with less." But this natural and reflexive approach to economic uncertainty is often the worst path a business leader can take. In fact, while researching my recently released book The New Gold Standard: 5 Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Ed Staros, a founder of the modern-day Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 26, 20081 topic

My Buddy's Candle

When I finished writing this story two meaningful events occurred. One day while discussing this with a friend she told me she had the same thing happen to her. She watched her dog be run over by the school bus which was bringing her home from school. Sharing Buddy's story helped her to heal.nnThen one Saturday morning my inner voice said go to the animal shelter this morning. I have learned from experience to always listen to this voice and often feel it is coming from God k

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonAug 22, 20081 topic

5 Keys To Fat Loss Success

When it comes to losing fat, success doesn't happen overnight. Sometimes it doesn't even happen over a few weeks, a few months or a few years. Don't rush it, don't crash and don't expect too much of yourself too soon. Life is for the living; for the making of mistakes and learning from them. Below I have outlined my 5 Keys to Fat Loss Success so that you can not only lose fat but keep it off -- forever:n n1. Set realistic short-term goals: The best way to think of these is as

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 6, 20071 topic

When What You Want Is Stalking You

When What You Want Is Stalking YounnYou know that advice people give then you're dying to buy something, "Go home, and if you're still thinking about it in a few days, go back to the store and revisit it." Frequently one you get home you realize you don't really want the item over which you lusted so heartily. Other times, you are stalked by it. You sleepwalk through your days with visions of trousers dancing in your head. Oh, the stuff in your closet you'll accessorize the p

Primary topic: Women's Issues

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 25, 20071 topic

Evaluating Your Options and Choosing Integrative Treatment

It may seem that we have a long way to go before most people have access to truly integrative cancer treatment. Academic medical centers have not yet sufficiently integrated CAM services into their conventional care models. According to research by Dr. David Eisenberg and his colleagues at the Harvard Medical School Osher Institute, none of the 39 randomly selected academic medical centers that integrate complementary and alternative medicine services into conventional care h

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJan 7, 20091 topic

New Year. New You. New Nest Egg.

Build a better nest egg with 6 easy, sound strategies for 2009.nnThe stock market lost 38% in 2008, but if you lost more than 20%, your problem wasn't really the stock market, it was the design of your nest egg. Storms occur in markets, as they do in the real world, but your home shouldn't be flooding every time it happens. nnYou know intuitively that your retirement plan doesn't work. Your nest egg has drowned twice now in the last eight years. You were elated with your retu

Primary topic: Financial Freedom

Financial Freedom

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 3, 20081 topic

Five Quick and Easy Recommendations for Career Women

1. Know how to shake hands. Your grip must be firm and you must make eye contract. Smile and squeeze. Human contact is the first step in initiating a relationship.nn2. Determine what you and/or your services are worth right from the start. Don't sell yourself cheap at the beginning just to get some business. If you or your product are too cheap, you won't attract the best customers. I had the same price for the first several years, which was significantly higher than my more

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonDec 5, 20081 topic

Hurry Down Sunshine Excerpt

On July 5, 1996, my daughter was struck mad. She was fifteen and her crack-up marked a turning point in both our lives. "I feel like I'm traveling and traveling with nowhere to go back to," she said in a burst of lucidity while hurtling away toward some place I could not dream of or imagine. I wanted to grab her and bring her back, but there was no turning back. Suddenly every point of connection between us had vanished. It didn't seem possible. She had learned to speak from

Primary topic: Writing Tools

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonJul 16, 20081 topic

Not Just For Kids -- The Surprising Health Issues Of Midlife Women

One of the advantages of reaching midlife is that we are finally finished with all those issues that make childhood and adolescence such a pain in the neck, such as needing set bedtimes as well as regular dental and eye checkups; having to worry about using protection during sex and about cigarette smoking; getting all those shots to prevent diseases and wearing helmets to prevent sports injuries; needing to eat all our vegetables and avoid sugar as well as not missing gym cl

Primary topic: Health Education

Health Education

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonApr 21, 20081 topic

Spiraling Health Care Costs

Americans are deeply unhappy with the country's health care programs and costs. And rightly so. As one author observed, "A recent survey showed that only 17 percent of respondents in the United States were content with their health-care system . . . Why the discontent? The superficial reasons are simple enough to describe: the system is hugely expensive, very bureaucratic, and extremely patchy. The expenses first: U.S. health care costs a third more, per person, than that of

Primary topic: Health Products and Services

Health Products and Services

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonSep 27, 20081 topic

Flinchlessness

You flinch . . . you lose.nnImagine skiing at over 130 mph on skis and you catch an edge. One instinctive flinch to catch your balance and you lose any chance at winning the race. The challenge is overcoming the protective instinct to throw your hands out for balance while maintaining stability and maintaining your line.nnIn a sale, negotiation or even a debate, flinch and you lose ground. In a world of incredible speed the lost ground might be too much to recover from.nnImag

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonApr 25, 20081 topic

Parenting And Divorce: Itâs About You!

As a parent, you are at the center of your childâs life, but first you are at the center of your life, and what your child needs more than anything is for you to be okay. Being OK will also improve your negotiations with your Ex over all issues. nnThere are a lot of things you canât change, canât control, so you have to play the hand youâve been dealt. But the one thing you can do something about, the one thing you can control, is how you react to things that happen.

Primary topic: Divorce

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By Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonOct 24, 20081 topic

Why They Talked, and What They Want

A great gulf exists between American military and civilian societies. But paradoxically, it can be hard to tell young veterans of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from their peers who haven't served. As I wrote a book about West Point recently, I would visit with vets who had left the Army and were attending some of America's most prestigious universities. I was struck that the veterans were often the ones walking around campus with the longest hair, and the most stylish clot

Primary topic: Inspiration

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