Mentoring
Getting Over the Holiday Blues
Need to talk? Power to Change offers a free mentoring program where you can talk privately with a trained mentor. This is supposed to be a season of joy and happiness, but many people don't feel it. Many people suffer from bouts of depression or the blues at different times during the year. During the holiday season people encounter...
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Far more people in Canada used the Internet for "personal interactions" last year than those who didn't. According to Statistics Canada, "Eighty per cent of Canadians age 16 and over used the Internet for personal reasons in 2009, up from 73 per cent two years earlier." I was a bit surprised that only 80% used the Internet. Less surprising is that...
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People are generally encouraged, and expected, to be strong. Driven to succeed by cultural pressure (and even family pressure) the means to become a success is understood to become strong. And being strong sometimes leaves little room for needing help. According to stats from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, women cry approximately 5.3 per month,...
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One thing many people will do to ring in 2010 is make a new year's resolution. Here, according to ABC News, are what will be the most popular new year's resolutions this year: 1) Spend more time with family 2) Lose weight 3) Quit smoking or stop drinking 4) Do more fun stuff 5) Getting your finances in order Other popular choices probably...
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If there’s one question I hear over and over again this time of year it’s this: what do you want for Christmas? Amid the gift and the wrappings there is something about this time of year that gives us permission to dream, to be extravagant to hope for something more. Christmas is a time for dreaming, for wondering, for optimism. I know...
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“What’s love got to do with it?” Tina Turner famously asked. For many of us, love – the joy of it, the lack of it, or the confusion that comes with it – is both what gets us up in the morning and what keeps us up at night. If you have a question about love, relationships, or marriage you’re not alone. Love, even when it’s wonderful,...
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