Feature: Fierce Living
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Top Ten Reasons Your Relationship May Fail— Fifty-one percent of women in the U.S. are now living without a spouse. Are good marriages an urban myth?
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No Safe Distance (Part One)— Murdered in August, Sue Weiland has yet to be buried. With the trial still pending, a grieving family struggles to pick up the pieces.
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Questions to Ask Before You Get Married— Supplementing a New York Times list, here are a few more pre-marriage questions you may really need.
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The Path is Made by Walking: Insight is Optional— "Why am I like this?" many clients ask. Could the quest to understand your past actually block you from making a better future?
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A Powerful Story of Survival: Thirty-One Years and Still Standing— The first quadriplegic to ever walk again without the aid of braces marks the 31st anniversary of his injury and he's still standing.
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Top Ten Things Learned on the Road to Full-Time Self-Employment— Considering your career direction and setting some resolutions to launch your own venture in 2007? Here are some tips to help smooth the process.
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NaNoWriMo as a Path to Enlightenment? Sara Completes Her Novel— Sara's account of her early days read like a primer for a path to higher consciousness. What did she learn along the way?
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The Effect of Money on Our Thinking— New research indicates that just the thought of money may make us selfish. Could the pursuit of money ultimately cost you your peace of mind?
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Developing Creativity (Final): Creative Risks, Creative Gambles and Critics— You may always need a day job to support your creative endeavors. Don’t let that derail you or force you to devalue your creative process.
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Developing Creativity (Part Four): More on Courting the Muse— For those used to multi-tasking, learning to release oneself into a natural creative rhythm can feel downright torturous. Read for tips to ease the pain.
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Developing Creativity (Part Three): Courting the Muse— Been denying your creativity for years? Don’t expect it to burst forth in full regalia just because you want it now. Should it trust you?
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Warning: Home Movies and Denial Don't Mix— It was, by far, one of the low points in my life. Me, on the TV screen in a bathing suit. It was mortifying.
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Developing Creativity (Part Two): Allowing Creative Immersion— "That's it! Tangy Monkey! That's perfect!" Little did I know, buried deep within my brother-in-law, such creativity was simply waiting for its moment to arrive.
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Remembering Sue Weiland (Part Two)— Oh, no! I am not really out in the middle of nowhere, going to stay with people I don't know, only to find myself stranded!
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Developing Creativity (Part One): 'No Need to See Flowers Any Other Way'— That’s when I saw it. The deer-in-the-headlights look as out poured the protestations. “I can’t draw. I can't paint." So, I waited...
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Becoming More Disciplined— For many, trying to be more disciplined often ends up as a series of false starts, frustration, self-loathing, and Ben and Jerry's binges. What now?
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Entrepreneurs, Fear of Success, and the Myth of Commonality— Entrepreneurs will never lack for ideas, but how many of those ideas ever see daylight? Consider these common stumbling blocks that keep success at bay.
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Is there a Buddha in the White House?— Many of us would rather admit to having an "inner child" than an "inner Cheney" but is it really that simple?
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The Escalating Cycle of Domestic Abuse— In-depth news segment shares chilling audio of escalating threat by man accused of murdering his long-term girlfriend. Complexities of domestic abuse cycle explored.
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The Trouble with Happiness: Understanding the Difference between Joy and Pleasure— Americans are spending unprecedented amounts of money in their pursuit of happiness, but seem less satisfied than ever. Is lasting happiness really possible?
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The Burden and Necessity of Intimacy— A former therapist talks about the downside of clinical distance and the challenge that intimacy presents in the face of trauma.
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Fighting the Good Fight? Don't Get Burned (Part Two)— Watching your reactions and understanding what triggers them will help you avoid burnout. Don't believe everything you think.
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Remembering Sue Weiland (Part One)— The journey of a family coping with a tragic loss due to domestic violence told by one invited to share a celebration of her life.
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Fighting the Good Fight? Don't Get Burned (Part One)— Approaching burn out? Remember, only you can prevent forest fires. Here are some fundamentals to help keep you sane.
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NaNoWriMo: The Path to Enlightenment?— Seeking the benefits of meditation without all the... well, meditation? Try NaNoWriMo.
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The Graveyard Shift— True love is the only way to face down death.
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Opening My Eyes on Mike— May we be willing to help each other as we absorb the ramifications of truly loving each other, 'til death do us part.
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The Consequence of Love— Will you enter that fierce embrace, where even the gods speak of God?
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Can't We Just Agree Marketers are Evil and Be Done With It?— Marketing is a tricky business, fraught with ne'er-do-wells and evil masterminds but the buck doesn't stop there. What is a consumer to do?
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Who Controls Your Appetite? The Importance of a Centering Practice— Businesses aren't unethical in what they choose to market. They just give us what we want while helping us want more of it.
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How Knowing Your Values Simplifies Your Life— This article is especially important for you creatives and non-linear, entrepreneurial or multi-talented people before you make one more master plan for organizing your life.
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Laying Down the Badge— Just eight years shy of retirement, a burned out police sergeant lays down his badge and shares his thoughts for anyone fearing a career change.
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Adventures of an Unlikely Superhero (Part Seven/Final): Slaying the Ghost of Three Dragons Past— As I was transferred to my hospital bed, Thou Shalt awaited to begin the Superhero initiation.
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Adventures of an Unlikely Superhero (Part Six): The Almost-Fairy Tale Marriage
— It's a remarkable thing to live with someone who fully, openly supports your growth, but the fairy tale union with my husband had a hitch.
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Adventures of an Unlikely Super Hero (Part Five): A Ladybug's Life Is Overrated
— The freefall had stopped and I had landed solidly on my own two feet. Or had I?
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Adventures of an Unlikely Super Hero (Part Four): Dance of the Misfit Poets
— Angst-filled and searching? Brooding? Charismatic misfit poet? That was the man for me! My penchant for the lost soul made me the perfect companion.
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Adventures of an Unlikely Super Hero (Part Three): I Was a Teen-aged Greg Brady
— The emergence of the Greek uni-brow on my forehead coupled with a Dorothy Hamill wedge cut gone terribly wrong made me a shoo-in for…
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Adventures of an Unlikely Super Hero (Part Two): The Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius
— I was granted a special audience with the religion teacher who threatened me with a failing grade if I did not sheathe my rapier wit.
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Finding Your Life Purpose (Part Five/Final): Slay Your Way to Bliss— Now that you are ready to burst forth and slay a dragon or twenty, where do you start? How do you get to bliss?
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Adventures of an Unlikely Super Hero (Part One): Ambition — For a Woman?!
— "Ambition? Julius Caesar had ambition and look what happened to him!" Thus read the inscription beneath my grandmother's high school yearbook photo.
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Finding Your Life Purpose (Part Four): Who Packed Your Bags?— Ready to get your slay on? Not so fast, Buckaroo. Are you really ready to break all the rules? What about your own?
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Finding Your Life Purpose (Part Three): Saying No, Saying Yes— Don't just quit! There is a difference between a reactionary, overwhelmed, resentful "No" and the "No" that represents a conscious choice to change one's life.
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Finding Your Life Purpose (Part Two): Camels and Lions and Dragons, Oh My!— While safe, secure, and predictable, the camel is no longer vital, energized, and passionate.
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Finding Your Life Purpose (Part One)— It’s important to realize your life purpose may not be adequately described in any job title. Still interested in looking?
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Buddha Graduate School: Lessons on Life from the Dying— No one teaches more about living well than those who are dying well.
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