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Fad Cures

A recent Wall Street Journal article exposed the influx of visitors coming to Peru to experience ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic plant, with the hopes of relieving physical and psychological pain. If you have read my book, From Type A to Type Me: How to Stop “Doing” Life and Start Living It, you know about my personal […]

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Stop Trying to Escape Your Life

The other day my friend told me her family goes on “adventures” not “vacations.” “Vacations,” she said, “makes it sound like we are vacating our life.” The concept struck me powerfully. How often are we vacating our lives? How often do we want to escape, to get away from our every day? It is all […]

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Safety Checklist

Recently a client admitted to falling back into an old undesirable habit. Ashley had once again become a tyrant at home. She was obsessed with the cleanliness of her house. She worried about getting things done on time. She stopped interacting with her family. The only time she spoke to them was when she was […]

Melissa Heisler, Stress Reduction Expert

Mistakes

An amazing thing happened, I made a mistake.  And it was a doozy too.  I set up my radio show incorrectly so my 30-minute show was abruptly ended in 15-minutes.  It is so important to me to have the radio show go smoothly because any missteps will be forever accessible therefore having an effect on […]