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​Laughter is the Best Medicine
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Wellness Tip: Cardiologists from the University of Maryland Medical Center believe that laughter helps your heart. Laughter helps increase blood flow, lower stress hormones and improve our immune system.Stress and inflammation in and around our inner blood vessels (endothelium) can lead to heart attacks and strokes. But when we laugh our body releases beta-endorphins; this causes our inner blood vessels... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
Beth Rosenshein
Orgasm Without Sexual Sensation
by Beth Rosenshein
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An orgasm without sexual sensation is not as uncommon as you would think. If you normally have, or have had, normal sexual response and then you find that you feel the vibrations of an orgasm without the intense pleasure, then you have had an orgasm without sexual sensation. It is often called sexual anhedonia, orgasmic anhedonia or pleasure dissociative orgasmic dynfunction (PDOD), and can affect... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
Suzanne Venker
Women Are Wired to Depend on Men
by Suzanne Venker
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Attitudes may have changed since the days when husbands brought home the bacon and when wives stayed home with the kids. But it turns out deviating from conventional gender roles makes both men and women miserable. Research by Karen Kramer and Sunjin Pak at the University of Illinois examined data on nearly 1,500 men and 1,800 women and found the more women’s paychecks increased, the more women reported... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
Darian Carrow
The Essure Issue
by Darian Carrow
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Women all over the United States are fighting against Bayer AG because of their Essure permanent birth control device. Essure, a non-surgical sterilization device for women, has been the subject of severe scrutiny as thousands of women have reported a multitude of adverse events as a result of the device. This past summer, there were a total of 20,000 documented adverse events that were reported by... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
Donna Moriarty
How a Good Apology Can Change Your Life
by Donna Moriarty
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A good apology is a superpower. Master it with just 4 simple actions and it can change your life.Okay, so nobody’s perfect. At some point or other, we all screw up. We’ve lost a borrowed sweater, shouted mean things in anger, or accidentally sideswiped a parked car. What can set you above most other people is the ability to deal with those mistakes quickly, effectively, and confidently.Wait, seriously?... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
Gary Roe
3 Tips For Living Well From Hospice Patients
by Gary Roe
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The room was silent except for the hum of the machines, the rhythmic blip of the heart monitor, and the quiet cadence of my dad’s breathing. With no hope of recovery, life support was about to be terminated. I was spending a few last moments with him. I was 15. Suddenly, I became acutely aware of my own heartbeat. It was in perfect sync with dad's heart monitor. Stunned, I realized several profound... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
Deva Joy Gouss
An Invitation to Practice Awareness of Our Oneness
by Deva Joy Gouss
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What changes would occur if we, as a human species, all around our globe, actually woke to the reality that we are truly One eco-system?We are interwoven, interconnected, and not separate from one another. This is not a “woo-woo” New Age thought. It is not a hypothesis. It is reality.A species doesn’t vanish from the earth without the whole system shifting in some way. Each year between 200 to 2,000... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
Robin Graine, JD
Ask a Divorce Mediator: How Can You Avoid Divorce?
by Robin Graine, JD
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The societal shame at the thought of divorce has lifted. Today, unhappy marriages can have an expiration date; just a few decades ago, they would have lasted for year after unhappy year. As a divorce mediator, I’m seeing couples in my practice who simply chose the wrong partner; they married in good faith and it didn’t work out……but far more often, I see marriages ending for reasons that could have... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
Guy Finley
Release These 3 Beliefs About Your Partner That Drag You Both Down
by Guy Finley
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Inside all of us is a confusion of ideas and expectations that have been built up over the years through our experiences, books we’ve read, movies we’ve seen, opinions of people who seemed to be “in the know,” and endless other sources.Much of this “information” is distorted, irrelevant, or just plain wrong. Nevertheless, these are the ideas that precede us into any situation, coloring what we see,... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
John Arden, PhD, ABPP
Why Whole Body Self-Care is Key to Long-Term Health
by John Arden, PhD, ABPP
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Anna and Michael had been married for 17 years when both began to complain that the other no longer focused on the rest of the family. They spent an inordinate amount of time ruminating resentments about each other. Meanwhile, their 2 children were entering the first few years of high school and presenting new challenges for their parents. Both Anna and Michael felt they didn’t have the energy to keep... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
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