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Walking the Autism Road with Someone You Love

When my son was diagnosed with autism, I was surprised at the depths of grief that threatened to overwhelm me. Even though I still had my son, I felt as if I had lost him in some ways. The burden of mourning and moving into a new normal was not a load I was able to carry on my own. Thankfully, my family and friends linked arms with me, walking with... >Full Story

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Self-Esteem and You

There’s a revolution going on. “It’s a revolution within,” says author Gloria Steinem. In fact, that is the title of her bestseller, Revolution From Within, a book about self esteem. In her preface she writes, “The more I talked to men as well as women, the more it seemed that inner feelings of incompleteness, emptiness,...... >Read More



How to Battle Porn

Feel like you’re losing the battle against porn? Talk to an email mentor, confidentially. Four steps to winning the war against temptation Pornography is progressive; what starts as a glimpse becomes a gawk. It follows the law of diminishing returns – whet the appetite and we want more. No seven-year-old chooses an XXX-rated movie at the...... >Read More



Some Things We Keep

I grew up in the fifties with practical parents – a mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen, before they had a name for it. A father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones. Their marriage was good, their dreams... >Read More



Would You Give up Your Nest Egg for a Child?

Eric and Tina were retired and quite happy with the way things were going. They had a nice home with a prize winning vegetable garden in a good family neighbourhood.  Eric had worked for the postal service for thirty-five years and had saved some money along the way as well. Their daughter was married to Mark and they were raising... >Read More



Does Your Family Need to Break the Silence?

Join me as we listen in on a family meeting. The fact that there is a family meeting actually happening is a tremendous credit to everyone involved. Many issues have been popping up that nobody wanted to deal with, but now it’s time…. Ralph and Eva are 80 and 78 and still live in their own home. 55 year-old Rick... >Read More



Be Friendly and Live Longer?

Will keeping in touch with old friends guarantee to keep you younger? Are well-tended relationships part of a “long life formula?” Can you fight aging by staying as close to as many family members as possible? Do you want to live a rich long life? Then make some friends and plan to spend some quality time with them on a regular... >Read More



A Difficult Decision

The decision to place a loved one in an assisted living facility is a difficult but frequently unavoidable one. Even though the choice may be absolutely necessary, the person forced to make the decision for their spouse or parent often feels an overwhelming sense of guilt. When the time came for me to decide to place my mother, who suffers... >Read More


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