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“Create Peace Within and Without” featured in Creating Community Magazine's March, 2011 issue. Click here to view the issue.
Create Peace Within and Without
As a person living in today’s world, finding time and space to call your own is a rare commodity and much needed necessity. You’ve got your family, friends, job, fitness and social needs to think of. Modern life has become more of a balancing act to get it right for each person, than ever before. You have to become master of your own ship, steering yourself in positive, healthy directions finding ways to get back on track if you wander away from your course. Sometimes in relationships, learning how to emotionally detach is a lifesaver. You learn to interact as best as you can in the moment. Sometimes, it’s the setting of your own personal boundaries that keep a close relationship feeling comfortable, safe and emotionally manageable.
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Surviving Back-to-School Stress
I want to first acknowledge and give congratulations on surviving the close of summer and yet, again, to begin again… that is the nature of life, the seasons and life’s chapters. We must constantly adjust to changes and now is no different. When getting your kids back to school, no matter what grades they’re entering, the parents and all family members feel the transition and are affected. Similar to what public relations professionals call an “advertising blitz”, parents and their children face a concentrated “multi-task” blitz in the fall...
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A Case for Children against "Body World" at the Science Museum
The “Body World” exhibit, a controversial collection of 200 preserved cadavers on display at the Science Museum, is being presented to the public as an educational offering with no age restrictions, rating system or advanced preparation for the children viewing it. The array of distorted and mutilated bodies may be appropriate for medical students and scientific professionals to further advance our understanding of how human anatomy and physiology works, but it’s not for everyone...
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