Let’s face it, Christmas changes for all of us through the years. It would actually be sort of absurd for us to think that it could always stay the same, but I’ve been guilty of exactly that. Now, we could view these changes as either a good thing or bad
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F.O.M.O. – Fear of Missing Out
As with most all modern technology, there are positive as well as negative effects and outcomes. I remember it was not all that long ago we had the ability to drive our vehicles a couple of miles down the road without any form of electronic communication; it didn’t exist. But,
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I read a book recently by Martin E. P. Seligman, PH.D., titled, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. In this book, Mr. Seligman contends that many people learn how to become helpless due to negative outside forces (i.e. events, people, situations) they have been exposed to
Continue readingSurviving Panic Attacks
Panic Attacks won’t kill you, but sometimes they are bad enough that you might wish you were dead. I was eighteen, happy and optimistic about the life ahead of me. I was an otherwise normal and healthy young man with no history of any physical, mental or emotional issues up to
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