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3 Critical Tools for Paying Off Debt
This is the time of year when many people look at their debt situation and shudder. They dream of what it would be like to be out of debt. And, if they're brave, they begin to plan a strategy to reduce the amount of debt they carry. They'll begin with high hopes. But many of them will quit before reaching their goal, disappointed, discouraged...
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Speak Up This past week I have been, quite literally, voiceless. A bad...
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Can Love Go the Distance? They say that “absence makes the heart grow fonder”, but I’m...
There’s no such thing as a perfect marriage, but how do you know if you’re in a good marriage? There have been a spat of celebrity break ups this week. It’s easy to look at them at think, “well that’s Hollywood, we have real problems” but sometimes we lose perspective too. When you’re tired, when change is slow, when you run out...
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Arguably the worst piece of romantic advice ever given is the oft quoted, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Love is all about saying you’re sorry. Love, when it’s good, is finding someone that you want to be with, someone you want to share your life with. Inevitably in all that togetherness there are going to be times...
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I turned on CNN this morning and there was more news of bullying and suicide and it broke my heart. In the past couple of weeks we’ve lost Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh, Asher Brown, Billy Lucas and earlier this year Phoebe Prince. I wish that was an exhaustive list but there are others. Bullying sometimes gets passed off as just a part of...
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When I was in high school I knew kids who drank heavily. I knew about kids who took drugs and in my Grade 9 year someone committed suicide. But I did not know any students who cut themselves. Fast forward to 2010 and ask my niece about cutting in her high school and she’ll tell you in a quiet voice, “I know a lot of kids who do that.” Teens...
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Can a broken marriage be fixed? Often, if both partners are willing to do the work the answer is yes. In a recent article for CNN author Eileen Kelly recounts her own experience with couples' counseling. For Kelley and her husband the end began on a Caribbean vacation with their three year old twins. She writes about how she has seen several...
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What do you do when you have quite the sexual past, but you want to have a pure marriage, with a great sex life? Can you rid yourself of the baggage from everything you've already done? Here's a letter that I received recently: I am single, in my late twenties. In my earlier twenties, I did not live a Christian lifestyle. I had sex with two men....
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Too often people are tempted to put a band-aid on a problem instead of really fixing it. That was the thought that came to mind when I read an article in the Globe & Mail titled "Suicide barrier on Bloor Viaduct worked, but jumpers went elsewhere": The Bloor Viaduct suicide barrier, a $6-million feat of engineering that managed to marry heritage...
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