Psychlinks Psychology & Mental Health

The Concepcion Project

djbaxter — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:29:41 +0000

There is a lot in the news currently – and rightly so – about the horrific earthquakes in Haiti and the relief efforts underway to assist the Haitian people. Even in the midst of this disaster, I am hearing comments in the media about the need to do more than just help Haiti from one [...]

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Desensitizing Your Fight or Flight Response

djbaxter — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:23:50 +0000

Desensitizing Your Fight or Flight Response Creating a Sense of Safety in Your Life By Changing the Meaning of Your Experiences By Ewa Schwarz Eight years ago I wrote an article on being a highly sensitive person. So much has happened since that time. I have learned how to take the quality of being highly sensitive and evolve [...]

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Stepfamily Sanity During The Holidays

djbaxter — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:52:31 +0000

Stepmonster Wednesday Martin. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009, Hardcover, 336 pages, $12.50 Stepfamily Sanity this Holiday Season By Wednesday Martin, Ph.D., Author of Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do When you think of holidays, you probably think of family. And that’s what makes holidays so tough for stepfamilies. At this time of year, couples in a remarriage with [...]

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No. Just Say It.

djbaxter — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:13:40 +0000

Womenomics Claire Shipman. HarperBusiness 2009, Hardcover, 256 pages, $7.19 No – Just Say It by Claire Shipman & Katty Kay, Authors of Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success Once you’ve tamed your inner-guilt monster, you are ready to welcome that most wonderful of words into your vocabulary. We’re certain you barely use it. But it’s a potent combination of two letters that [...]

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Disrespectful teens, disrespectful parents

djbaxter — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:14:55 +0000

How to get your teen to clean up their room by Anthony Wolfe, The Globe and Mail Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2009 If you force your kid to clean up, your victory will be short-lived. Trust that they’ll tidy up with time The courtroom of the Honourable Justice Maureen Rascomb in the case of Matthew Thibodeau v. his mother. Matthew: “It’s [...]

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Love Your Body, Love Your Life

djbaxter — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:14:15 +0000

Love Your Body, Love Your Life Sarah Maria. Adams Media 2009, Paperback, 256 pages, $8.41 Love Your Body, Love Your Life 5 Steps to End Negative Body Obsession and Start Living Happily and Confidently By Sarah Maria Eating Disorders. Steroids. Plastic Surgery. We’ll do anything to look better — and yet we still feel bad about how we look. Self-loathing has reached epidemic proportions. [...]

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A Secret, a Disability, a Journey into the Unknown

djbaxter — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:37:20 +0000

Annie’s Ghosts Steve Luxenberg. Hyperion 2009, Hardcover, 416 pages, $2.66 Not the Same Old Story – A Secret, a Disability, a Journey into the Unknown By Steve Luxenberg, Author of Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret The best documentaries, said one creator of that art form after a recent screening in Baltimore, reveal something that is outside the experience of [...]

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Meaning in Relationships

djbaxter — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:19:42 +0000

The Little Book on Meaning Laura Berman Fortgang. Tarcher 2009, Hardcover, 240 pages, $1.25 Looking for Love This Summer? This Time, Make It Meaningful By Laura Berman Fortgang, Author of The Little Book on Meaning: Why We Crave It, How We Create It Summertime is a time of great romance. Single people find each other after the dearth of winter as they sun [...]

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How we fail to protect the future victims of high risk sex offenders

djbaxter — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:07:22 +0000

Maclean’s Magazine recently published the following: The five things you need to know about the National Sex Offender Registry by Michael Friscolanti, Macleans Magazine Apr 24, 2009 When Christopher Stephenson was a young boy—before he was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered by a notorious pedophile—his father would often tuck him into bed with a classic fairy tale: The Emperor’s [...]

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Celebrating 20 Years of AOL Annoyances and Foul-Ups

djbaxter — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:01:22 +0000

Perhaps more of interest to those who lived through it than those who arrived on the tail end, this is a fascinating and sometimes frustrating look back on infamous moments in AOL history. The one thing not mentioned in the article is AOL’s link to the ironically self-titled Open Directory Project aka DMOZ, an once noble if hopelessly [...]

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