16th December 2009
So Black Friday has passed you by, and Cyber Monday is today, and you are behind on your holiday stress management already.
Sounds like you might be buying into what the retailers always want us to think, there is not enough time, not enough Zuu Zuu do...
09th December 2009
What is Christmas stress? Physiologically it is the same stress that we have about any problem that we perceive to be greater than our resources to handle it.
The one thing that few of the stress writers talk about is how fast that stress response happ...
30th November 2009
Meditation thoughts are a bit of an oxymoron. Meditation is actually about getting beyond thoughts, depending on the tradition.
The strongest meditation traditions are from the East, India, China, and Japan, for example, and are associated with Eastern...
26th November 2009
In counseling self esteem, I am reminded of step four in the AA program, which states that the alcoholic needed to make a fearless and thorough moral inventory of themselves in order to determine their defects of character which need to be changed and tra...
24th November 2009
It appears that the key word term "phone counseling" can apply to a number of different situations, one like that described in the job application below. By the way, that job has been filled.
Seattle Education jobs
Phone Counseling position -Company...
22nd November 2009
So you want to be a counseling student, or perhaps you are a counseling student, looking for some funny stories, or you want to counsel students.
Have you heard of the Mind Sparke Brain Fitness Pro? It is a computerized brain fitness program that takes...
20th November 2009
How to improve brain power is very much akin to how to improve muscle power.
If I want more strength in my bicep, I need to increase the number of muscle fibers in my bicep, by using resistance training.
When I stress the muscle doing curls, my body...
03rd November 2009
The kid is sneaky?
When my son was perhaps five or six, he started asking "why" to every order or request he was given.
It was out of character for him, and after a number of those mommy and daddy moments where the parents regress to intimidation, t...
27th October 2009
I like weight training over 50. I like weight training over 60, and the guys at my YMCA who are in their 80's call me "young blood".
I would have thought that by the time I was 61, I would be past the time I would be teased about my relative youth.
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21st October 2009
Anger counseling is a many splendored beast. Ever heard that old AA phrase or acronym HALT, for example? The acronym means that we are at greater risk for relapse when we are hungry, angry, lonely, or tired.
Hunger, loneliness, fatigue, closed head inj...
16th October 2009
When I began researching diet counseling, I discovered the usual kinds of research, which evaluated the benefit of face to face educational interventions for reducing heart disease and/or stroke for example.
The interventions were typically done with f...
05th October 2009
As I get closer to the designation of elderly, or as my 10 year old son says, "the ooooooollllllldddddd man", I am curious about what the counseling field has to say about working with Boomers and elderly counseling.
All the folks I hang around with a...
01st October 2009
Memory Aging
So you are my age, 61, and worried about memory aging? But you are a Boomer and we have grown up with a "can do", "we can change it" kind of mindset, and over the course of your life, you have watched your world change because of choices y...
28th September 2009
The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves."--Marvin L. Minsky (from Society of the Mind, 1986)
Can we learn plasticity? First maybe we need to know what brain plasticity is.
Plasticity, or neuroplasticity, is the lifelong a...
22nd September 2009
Nutrition in the elderly is something I am growing to be concerned with as I get older, especially as it relates to brain fitness.
Never heard of neurogenesis or neuroplasticity? You want to take care of your brain. I counsel folks about the impact of ...
