Love: What is that? Love was in the air, it was Valentine’s day and I was newly divorced. I was in the Valentines aisle in a neighborhood variety store. The unfortunate image of my ex invaded my thoughts as I looked at all the yummy, fun stuff I might buy for my grandchildren. I thought how…
Category: Wholeness
The Love of a Woman
In an evening class at Stanford the last lecture was on the mind-body connection – the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman whereas for…
Vitamin D
This week I am continuing my coverage of “The Vitamin D Solution” by Dr. Michael Holick. One of the most interesting chapters of the book was the one in which he discussed autoimmune diseases – especially multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which cells of the immune system…
Thoughts of Encouragement
Read Each One Carefully & Think About It a Second or Two 1. No man or woman is worth your tears, & the one who is, won’t make you cry. 2. Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. 3….
The Non Dysfunctional’s Pledge of Allegiance
Allegiance: loyalty to or support for a person, cause, or group I pledge allegiance to myself and the happiness I deserve And to the people I love in my life To be one family, Dysfunction free For the health and welfare of all Just as we pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States…
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The Dysfunctional Tiger
Dysfunction, though often thwarted by your conscience mind, will rise up at the most unexpected moments and grab a hold of your psyche like a tiger rushes in from behind and latches on, it’s claws digging deep and securing in the most tender places, the most vulnerable. For a little while we are held captive…
HIV/AIDS Awareness Rekindled
It’s interesting how prevalent and immediate a scare and concern HIV/AIDS was just a few years ago and now, you barely hear anything about it. I just watched this video on FB and since I am a huge Annie Lennox fan and because I believe this disease has been de-escalated into obscurity and shouldn’t have…
Sometimes You Just Gotta Bitch!
And whine and cry and feel sorry for yourself and elicit the care and concern and comfort of others. This was a hard lesson for me to learn. For years I kept it all to myself because that was the example I was taught. Don’t cry, don’t talk about it, just deal with it. Well,…