Decorating For Stress-Free Living

Decorating For Stress-Free Living by Krista Watterworth, Designer and Host of HGTV’s Bad, Bad Bath Surround yourself with items that inspire you, that’s number one on what I like to call my “Dreamy Home List”. Show off the best of who you are in your surroundings. It’s healthy to feel good when you’re at home. Feeling productive when needed and relaxed when desired are moods that your home should invoke. Dreamy Home Tip #1: Start…

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Helping Families Deal with Mental Illness

Helping Families Deal with Mental Illness, with Jonathan Stanley, J.D. An estimated 4.5 million Americans today suffer from the severest forms of mental illness, schizophrenia (2.2 million) and bipolar disorder (2.3 million). According to the National Advisory Mental Health Council, an estimated 1.8 million people of these individuals are not receiving treatment on any given day, resulting in homelessness, incarceration, victimization, and violence. The reasons for this are many, and include fragmented mental health systems,…

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Teenage Waistland

Teenage Waistland by Abby Ellin Abby Ellin, a journalist and former fat-camper whose parents’ attempts to “save her” from fatness proved counterproductive, has had a lifelong interest in figuring out how they might have done it better, and an abiding compassion for overweight kids. In Teenage Waistland, she shares the story of her own adolescent struggle with food and weight, and journeys with hope, skepticism, and humor through the landscape of today’s diet culture. She…

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