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Making Change
A psychologist provides guidelines to help individuals define their best pathways to change
By Leslie Becker-Phelps, Ph.D.

Yoga for the Mind

Life is not a smooth, easy road for anyone. Fortunately, though, you do not need to leave the way you experience it to chance. Instead, you can choose to engage in practices that increase your happiness, emotional resilience, and sense of inner peace

Is Your Relationship Just Right?

For a healthy, happy relationship, you must find a level of emotional intimacy that is not too distant and lonely, and not too close and suffocating. It must be “just right” for the two of you.

Summer Teaches Three Essential Lessons

It’s easy to get caught up in the hassles of daily life. That’s why it’s so important to attend to the lessons that summertime has to offer. Simply by paying attention, you can increase your sense of well-being as you get in tune with yourself, others, and the rhythm of life.

A Sure Path to Happiness

You can nurture a happier life by learning to attend better to the happiness that you already experience—no matter how small that experience is. By mindfully attending

Freeing Yourself From Love That Hurts

Many people remain in unsatisfying relationships or repeat problematic patterns over and over again. Their struggle is rooted in how they connect. Learn your inner models of how you perceive yourself and others and begin the journey to a happier love life.

Multi-Tasking: Your Greatest Asset and Greatest Liability

Life is busy. Really busy. So, multi-tasking seems like an inevitability. If you couldn’t multi-task, you’d be in trouble. Yet, multi-tasking can become your taskmaster

Proper Perspective and the Happy Life

Imagine your ideal self – not the specific accomplishments you’d like to achieve, but the person you’d like to be. With the proper perspective in thinking about yourself and others, you can be that person. Of course, it also takes practice.

Fill Your Glass and Toast to Life

It can be easy to get caught and stay stuck in negative thinking. These negative thoughts and feelings can be part of a self-perpetuating cycle. You can break free by learning to pay attention to positive emotions.

Take That First, or Next, Step Toward Success

The initial blush of excitement that comes with a great idea can fade quickly when you realize the magnitude of what you want to do. Rather than give up, learn to

Overcoming Loneliness

Loneliness is one of the most painful feelings a person can have because people are wired for connection.

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