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Control, Helplessness, and Love

Control, Helplessness, and Love by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. During my 35 years of counseling individuals, couples, families and business partners, I have discovered that an important purpose of our controlling behavior in our relationships is to av...

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How To Create a Life Strategy for Business Success - Part One of a Series

How To Create a Life Strategy for Business Success - Part One of a Series by: Charles and Holly Egner Ask yourself the following: 1. I have created a life-strategy plan for the next: a. 20 years.................Yes No b. 10 years..................

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Five Ways to Expand Your Comfort Zone

Five Ways to Expand Your Comfort Zone by: Skye Thomas Expanding your comfort zone isn't quite the same as building self-confidence. However, the two do fit together rather nicely. The one begets the other. So many people feel stuck in a rut...

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Conversational Negative Self-talk

Conversational Negative Self-talk by: Skye Thomas Most people don't even know they're doing it. Throughout the course of normal conversation, they bombard themselves with negative self-talk. Even people who are aware of the power of th...

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Under Their Thumb ... Tripping The Parental Triggers!

Under Their Thumb... Tripping The Parental Triggers! by: Edward B. Toupin Some of my clients have come to me feeling like their worlds were not under their own control. They felt as though everyone else ran their lives and had some aspect of con...

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Ideal Self

Ideal Self by: Kimberly Fulcher Envisioning Your Ideal Self In my work as a professional coach, I've had the opportunity to interact with hundreds of individuals.  I've found that people who are successful and fulfilled share comm...

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Here's Your Calm During The Storm Of Discouragement

Here's Your Calm During The Storm Of Discouragement by: Richard Vegas Have you ever known someone like this? "A person who knows how to start well, but finds it difficult to keep going"? A person whose successes are dependent on the quality...

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A Preexisting Condition

eexisting Condition by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of December 2, 2002 I am 25 and have been married for two years. This past August I began an affair with my husband's younger brother. I feel just terrible and wa...

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Comparison - The Great Destroyer

arison - The Great Destroyer by: Robert TaylorIn speaking of comparison we need to be aware that we should never compare ourselves to others. No other person has our unique qualities. No one else has ever gone through the exact same circumstance...

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Why God Stops Answering Prayers

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,and shew my people their transgression,and the house of Jacob their sins.Isaiah 58:1During one particular Christmas season, I learned of a church member who had considerable financial/material ne...

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