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Human and Animal Relationships
What does one’s relationship with the natural world and animals say about that person’s relationships with other humans? That is the topic of many sociological and anthropological studies. It is clear that human disregard for the sanctity of life is a warning sign. If a person is cruel to animals, there is an increased likelihood
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What is True Friendship?
What does it mean to be a friend, to have a friend? Is friendship merely social, having someone to have fun with, to avoid loneliness? Or is it deeper? When two people interact on a regular basis, what quality is it that transforms that acquaintance into a friend? Although the “chemistry” we often feel, the
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What Does it Mean to be Honest and Live with Integrity?
We all know the textbook definition of honesty: the quality of being fair and truthful. But what does it mean in everyday life? Honesty is not a behavior or way of speaking – it is a way of being, a way of life. When you are truthful by nature, you don’t just avoid lying, you
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A Mindful Summer Break
Summer has arrived, and with it, changes in schedules and family dynamics. Children are home from school, vacations are planned, and seasonal activities abound. How can you and your family be mindful, fully present to these opportunities this summer? In this season nature abounds and becomes fruitful. Notice the color, fragrance and flavor of freshly
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Accepting Change as Evolution
Consider the wisdom of the quote below. Are you exactly the same person you were five years ago, with the same experiences and knowledge? Have you learned nothing new in that time? Of course not – we all change. Evolution is a necessary part of life, whether it’s a shift of opinion, of spiritual or
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Experience a River of Peace
Love and peace start from the inside – you cannot express what you do not feel! I have written about how to “do kindness” in a past post, encouraging you to allow kindness to flow from within into outward expression through even the smallest act of kindness. The seeds of love and peace come from
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The Value of Patience in Healing
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” ~ Othello, William Shakespeare. Consider the truth of this line from Othello. When your skin is cut, the process of healing begins to grow new cells, remove damaged ones, and fill in the cut. Occasionally a scar remains if
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Eating Disorders – Anorexia
To conclude our study of eating disorders, I will tackle anorexia. As with other eating disorders, anorexia stems from a wide variety of emotional, mental, spiritual, and mental causes, although a specific trigger is not yet know. It is characterized by a strong fear of gaining weight and a mis-perception of one’s own body image.
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Eating Disorders: Bulimia
In my last post, I discussed a more newly-identified eating disorder, Orthorexia, an obsession with healthy eating that sometimes so severely limits food intake that it leads to health problems. Let’s continue now with a discussion of Bulimia. As with many eating disorders, Bulimia involves a distortion of the body image. There are two kinds
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A Study of Eating Disorders – Orthorexia
As part of the Soul Wisdom Therapy focus on the whole self, I will begin a post series on eating disorders with a little-known (and more newly defined) condition known as Orthorexia. The American Psychiatric Association has not classified Orthorexia as an eating disorder, however many therapists and nutritionists recognize the symptoms in their patients
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Attachments: Disorganized Attachment
I hope you’ve been learning from this series on Attachment styles, which we will conclude with this post on the Disorganized Attachment Style. This most extreme behavioral style stems from the most dysfunctional upbringing. Parents who generate a Disorganized Attachment Style in a child may be abusive, or may have learned from the fear in
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Attachments: The Ambivalent Style
If you have been following this series of posts on personality attachment styles, you will have a basic understanding of the theory that relationship patterns learned in infancy carry over into adult relationships. We have explored the Secure style (as associated with the majority of people) and the Avoidant style. Now let us go into