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In The Air, There’s A Feeling Of Christmas
by Norman Bales “City sidewalks, busy side walks Dressed in holiday green. In the air, there’s a feeling of Christmas” There’s no doubt that the feeling of Christmas is in the air. You can’t escape the presence of Christmas – crowded malls, harried store clerks, mail boxes full of Christmas sale ads and cards from […]
Helping Your Family Grow [2]
Part Two:Factors that Hinder Spiritual Growth in the Family by Norman and Ann Bales When you decide you want your family to grow spiritually, you will inevitably encounter hindrances. Spiritually sensitive people are also spiritual warriors. We have an insidious enemy with a passion for destroying families. Peter reminded his readers, “Be self-controlled and alert. […]
What Is Bullying?
Bullying, covers the whole range of behaviours from the relatively mild and commonplace unkind teasing or put-down or uncalled for criticism, to the appalling acts most of us would be, or would hope and believe ourselves to be incapable of, such as murder, mutilation and massacre. *** constant nit-picking, fault-finding and criticism of a trivial […]
What Do You Want Your Family To Become?
Part Three: “What Do You Want Your Family to Become?” by Norman and Ann Bales Several months ago we led a class on family spirituality. During the session, we asked the class members to describe an ideal family. There were about as many answers to that question as there were class members. We would like […]
Mothers
The young mother set her foot on the path of life. ” Is this the long way?” she asked. And the guide said: “Yes, and the way is hard. And you will be old before you reach the end of it. But the end will be better than the beginning.” But the young mother was […]
Helping Your Family Grow [4]
Part Four: “How to Enhance Spiritual Growth” In previous parts of the series we have discussed hindrances to family spiritual growth and sought to establish some guidelines to determine how spiritual growth needs to take place. In this last installment, we focus on some positive suggestions to help spiritual growth become a reality in your […]
Dear Mom
Dear Ann Landers: Please print this letter on Mother’s Day. It is to my own dear mother who will not see it. (She died several months ago of cancer.) But maybe others who are still lucky enough to have their moms will learn something from what I have written. Dear Mom: When I was growing […]
Repressed Memory
(Distributed for discussion and not for profit) Canadian psychiatrist Harold Merskey: ” . . . people with DID symptoms might be suffering from depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders or severe stress — from the death of a spouse, loss of a job, the end of a relationship, or audits by the IRS. Even migraine headaches and […]
Mpd
“Ms. Karasek claimed that all three defendants misdiagnosed her problem as multiple personality disorder and treated her condition as such. Ms. Karasek contended that she merely suffered from depression and should have been treated appropriately.” NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL October 20, 2000 Friday VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS; Pg. 5 PSYCHOTHERAPIST MALPRACTICE Defense verdict; hung jury Cynthia […]
Are You Feeling Old?
ARE YOU FEELING OLD? You will after you read this! YIKES!!!!! If not, consider this: This fall’s college freshman class was born after 1980. ** The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived. ** They have no memory of a time before MTV. ** “New Wave” is their parents’ musical generation. ** They have […]
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