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By: Sue Phaneuf, LMHC Student Intern Sleep deprivation is common in our culture. Some people choose to get away with less sleep yet lack of it can actually make us less productive, even if you feel as though you are getting more done. Sleep deprivation can actually do much more than hurt your productivity. According to a recent report by MSNBC*, When we deprive ourselves of sleep, this can

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The strategic changes needed to bring out the best in your children By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Recently I had dinner with my friends Bill and Nancy Palmer and the subject of school choice came up; mostly because at one time they had each of their five children in five different schools. If you think that schedule sounds crazy, then you’ve never met the

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by Congressman Ed Foreman The young boy, the young girl, says, "Someday when I get out of school, move away from home and start to college, I'm really going to have fun, I'll be happy and life will be great." The college student says, "Someday when I graduate, get my degree, get a job, my own apartment, I'll be happy and am really gonna' live!" The young couple says, "When we get moved into

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What is a Dad to do When Junior Moves Back Home? By Aaron Welch, LMHC, NCC Theyyyyyyy’re baaaaaaaack! Yes, you thought you had done your part. You deceived yourself into thinking that you had already lived through those adolescent years with your son. You really believed that he had spread his wings and left the nest and that you had paid your debt to society. Yes! Now, you could do everything

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Por: Dwight Bain, Consejero Nacional Certificado & Entrenador de Vida Certificado Alguna vez se ha sentido completamente sobrecargado con la vida? Ciertamente que a mi me ha pasado y probablemente a usted también en diversas ocasiones de la vida, puesto que cada uno sentimos presión sobre problemas en sus vidas. Sin embargo, los problemas y presiones son diferentes en diferentes etapas de la

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10 elementos para guiarle a manejar eventos críticos con mayor fortaleza por: Dwight Bain, Consejero Nacional Certificado & Entrenador para Vida. La vida es más dura de lo que a veces parece, aunque no todo el mundo parece estar abrumado por ella. Porque algunas personas enfrentan mayores

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What is a Dad to do When Junior Moves Back Home? By Aaron Welch, LMHC, NCC Theyyyyyyy’re baaaaaaaack! Yes, you thought you had done your part. You deceived yourself into thinking that you had already lived through those adolescent years with your son. You really believed that he had spread his wings and left the nest and that you had paid your debt to society. Yes! Now, you could do everything

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by Deedra Hunter, LMHC & Certified Eating Disorder Specialist ___Extreme weight loss ___Extreme weight gain ___Fear of being fat ___Talks frequently about food and feeling fat or focused on the fantasy of a perfect body ___Constantly compares self to the thin models and actresses seen in magazines and on TV ___Always seems to be eating or never seems to be eating ___Prefers to spend time

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-Understanding the warning signs of an eating disorder By: Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Starving to death is common in third world countries because they don’t have enough food to eat. Starving for help is a different yet equally serious problem because it isn’t about getting enough food to feed the physical body, rather, it’s about restricting food for the

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By Deedra Hunter, LMHC As a mental health counselor for over 30 years I have watched clients let go of their childhood traumas and achieve great success. I was reminded of this recently as I heard someone talk about feeling fearful about something they heard on the national news which caused them to throw their tomatoes away. Let me explain. I was at a luncheon last week when the topic of

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-How to break out of circle arguments to find peaceful connection By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach “It’s your fault!” “No it’s yours!” “Oh yea, well you’re a bigger one!” And on, and on the conflict goes. It’s what I call a circle argument because it goes around and around and never really gets anywhere and everyone ends up feeling bad. Sort of like a

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-Finding the Fast Track to a Successful Future- By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Congratulations- You made it to graduation! This is an exciting time in the life of any senior, as it should be, however, that excitement can quickly turn to panic, disappointment or regret if you don’t have a clear plan of what to do next on your journey into the next chapter

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By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach There is great power in having a road map to understand your ideal career. Think about how valuable it would be to have a detailed chart that maps out the combination of your unique life experiences with your education and skill set. Once you know your personal strengths, interests, motivations in combination with your

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By Aaron Welch, LMHC, NCC God has really been speaking to me lately. Yes, really. Amazing as it sounds for a man who has been a Christian for 31 years, I am just now learning that God still speaks to us, if we will only listen. For years, I don’t think I fully believed this…..that we could really hear the Lord’s voice. I just thought that God only spoke through the scripture….an

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Career Mapping- The strategy you need to create positive career change By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach There is great power in having a road map to understand your ideal career. Think about how valuable it would be to have a detailed chart that maps out the combination of your unique life experiences with your education and skill set. Once you know your

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By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Have you ever felt completely overwhelmed with life? I sure have and you probably have at different times of your life too, since everyone feels pressure over problems in their life. However, problems and pressures are different at different life stages. For instance, a teenager’s greatest problem may be worrying that they

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By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Have you ever felt completely overwhelmed with life? I sure have and you probably have at different times of your life too, since everyone feels pressure over problems in their life. However, problems and pressures are different at different life stages. For instance, a teenager’s greatest problem may be worrying that they

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By John Wagner, M.S. Certified Advanced Imago Relationship Therapist So many parents think of the task of parenting as how can I discipline my kid and raise them so they can be responsible. The problem with that approach is we have forgotten the main ingredient of parenting. That wonderful ingredient I continually find in the role model of our Father and that is relationship. Dr. David and

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Counseling & Coffee… Understanding the difference between traditional psychology and Biblical counseling by Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Recently a 6th grade student asked me a very insightful question after a chapel service for her home-school group in Orlando. She wanted to know the difference between the kind of psychology talked about on popular

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Understanding the connection between feeling ‘normal’ and being ‘healthy’ By Dwight Bain People don't change until they think they need to, in fact, it’s completely and totally impossible to experience real behavioral change, (lasting longer than 21 days), without understanding this foundational process and more importantly, knowing what to do about it in your personal life or situation. This is

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By Deedra Hunter, M.S., LMHC Why are you crying when nothing seems wrong? Why are you yelling at your children when you just told them how much you love them? Why are you eating cartons of fudge brownie ice cream every night at 10 after a huge dinner at 7? Why, when everyone tells you you’re great and wonderful, you look in the mirror and see an ugly, useless person? What’s wrong with you?

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By Linda Riley, LMFT & Certified Sex Therapist Emotions are normal and we experience them everyday. How we deal with them affects us in positive or negative ways. Not dealing with them at all will lead to problems in our relationships with others, either at home or at work. When we are struggling with negative emotions we expend a lot of negative energy which tremendously affects our

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“The Rose” by Jim Rohn, author & motivational speaker Lifestyle is style over amount. And style is an art - the art of living. You can't buy style with money. You can't buy good taste with money. You can only buy more with money. Lifestyle is culture - the appreciation of good music, dance, art, sculpture, literature, plays and the art of living well. It's a taste for the fine, the unique, the

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What’s Love got to do with it? Understanding the real meaning of love By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach “What is Love?” I overheard a little girl ask her father at the table next to me at a local restaurant. He stammered and tried to explain that it was a good feeling that you have for someone that you care about. “But what if you feel bad?” she said. The

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THE CONVENTIONAL INSIGHT our society shares about marriage.   1)         THE PURPOSE OF MARRIAGE The common wisdom about the purpose of marriage today is that it is to take one’s place in society and fulfill the American Dream which is to raise children and develop a style of life that will bring a particular kind of fulfillment.  Marriage is not considered necessary since today one can

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