Mary suffers from depression and so did her mom. She now sees signs of depression in her young adult daughter. When it comes to depression, we know that it tends to run in families. If your parents are depressed, your risk of depression is higher than someone without the family history. What we don’t quite understand is why. Is it because there is a…
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Mother’s Day has been with us since 1914! But I had no idea the holiday was so controversial in its history. It actually had roots as a Christian festival known as Mothering Sunday. It fell on the 4th Sunday in lent and was a special service in which the church faithful would return to their “mother church.”
Eventually the day became secularized and…
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I am in a job in which I can sit for hours at a time. I am writing at my computer, answering emails, and working on projects–all from my desk. And when I get into an assignment or project, I can sit for hours with very little movement. Writing a book, I can get in a zone and not move for days!
But what is this doing to my brain, if anything at all?
I…
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In the middle of the book of Matthew are two verses that should give us all pause. Matthew 12:36-37 says, “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Words are powerful. James 3 exhorts…
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Tapping, or what is called, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT not ECT!) is a popular alternative therapy that was developed by Roger Callahan (Pulos, 1999) and based on traditional Chinese medicine. It was first used to deal with anxiety and phobias.
The theory is that there are meridian points in the body that carry energy. When energy flow is…
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