What really keeps people from going senile?
June 13, 2014 Comments Off on What really keeps people from going senile?

National Post

Those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease experience a greater-than-normal decrease in the size of the hippocampus, which contributes to the difficulty in recalling newer memories while older ones remain intact.

Studies indicate that regular aerobic exercise has been shown not only to slow age-related shrinking of the hippocampus but remarkably it can also reverse some of the wastings that have already occurred. A year-long, three-days-a-week walking program recovered as much as two years’ worth of volume previously lost in healthy, but sedentary, seniors.
Read more
Why do I keep picking addicts to date?
June 11, 2014 Comments Off on Why do I keep picking addicts to date?

Psych Central

Simply put, the more intensely you are attracted to someone, the more likely you are to repeat an old pattern. This is kind of bad news if you want to be swept off your feet. It’s fun to be swept away, madly in love, but let’s say you have decided to try it a different way.

You are being cautious, you are only relating to people who seem sincere, responsible, grown-up. And yet here comes someone who is all those things and wildly attractive too!
Read more
Is this the most important sexual question you will ever ask?
June 7, 2014 Comments Off on Is this the most important sexual question you will ever ask?

AlterNet

For me, good means that you are in the moment with me, that you respect my desires as worthy, and that you pay attention when I express myself verbally and non-verbally. And I, of course, will make every effort to do the same for you.

So what was the magic question? What did he ask that leapfrogged us from normal to special?

“How do you get yourself off,” he asked, “when you’re all alone?” I get goosebumps just thinking about it.
Read more
Meaning in meaninglessness.
June 4, 2014 Comments Off on Meaning in meaninglessness.

Brain Pickings

I understood that faith is not merely “the evidence of things not seen”, etc., and is not a revelation (that defines only one of the indications of faith, is not the relation of man to God (one has first to define faith and then God, and not define faith through God); it does not only agree with what has been told one (as faith is most usually supposed to be), but faith is a knowledge of the meaning of human life in consequence of which man does not destroy himself but lives.
Read more
Unsatisfied?
May 31, 2014 Comments Off on Unsatisfied?

Psych Central

So why don’t people just ask for what they want instead of complaining about what they don’t get?

We want to believe the other person can read our minds, and if they could we wouldn’t haven’t to ask for what we want.
We want to punish the other person for not giving us what we want. Hard to admit, but it’s true.
Read more
The needs of a husband.
May 23, 2014 Comments Off on The needs of a husband.

Good Men Project

To start, ask him if he feels you’re looking out for him; can he tell how much you’re there for him? Then, ask him what are the best ways you can show him your support. Listen to his answer. Make an effort that very moment to respond to what he says.

Here’s what emotional support can look like:

He wants more physical affection and touch from you-and not just sex. Men tell me all the time how they want their significant other to show more affection. So cuddle up to him while you watch a show, give him a big hug and kiss hello, or give him a 5-minute should rub while you’re laying in bed together, getting ready to go to sleep. Make an effort to show some physical affection towards him consistently.
Read more
The real pain of an affair.
May 20, 2014 Comments Off on The real pain of an affair.

The Local

She also exchanged intimate photographs with some of her correspondents, Le Figaro newspaper reported.

In her defence at the divorce hearings, she argued that she had done so while in a state of depression.

But the judges decided that her depression was not a factor in her visits to the website and last month ruled in favour of Bruno.
Read more
Early to bed, early to rise… Really?
May 19, 2014 Comments Off on Early to bed, early to rise… Really?

News.com

BAD NEWS FOR EARLY BIRDS
* You’re useless in the arvo. Early birds are up and at ’em before anyone, and are very productive in the morning, but they tend to flame out by the afternoon. Night owls stay alert longer than early risers before losing their mental stamina. So, don’t ask an early bird to do anything that requires sustained attention more than 10 hours after they wake up.

* You’re probably poorer. Although their lifestyle has plenty of drawbacks, night owls tend to be better off financially than their early-rising counterparts.
Read more
Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?
May 14, 2014 Comments Off on Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?

Psychology Today

The human sexual response cycle is thought to have four stages:

Stage 1: Desire, which is defined as having a sexy thought or sexual fantasy that often occurs out of the blue or in response to a trigger such as seeing an attractive person, smelling an aromatic perfume, or watching a hot movie. Desire then prompts us to become sexually active.

Stage 2: Arousal is the excitement we feel, the physiological changes in our bodies once we’re physically stimulated.
Read more
The real cost of a conflicted marriage.
May 10, 2014 Comments Off on The real cost of a conflicted marriage.

Telegraph

The researchers calculated that around 315 extra deaths per 100,000 people per year could be caused by spousal demands and worries, they said.

Stress is known to have physical effects on health, increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke while it also encourages poor habits such as eating junk food and lack of exercise which exacerbates the problem.
Read more

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Session Notes

What really keeps people from going senile?

Why do I keep picking addicts to date?

Is this the most important sexual question you will ever ask?

Meaning in meaninglessness.

Unsatisfied?

The needs of a husband.

The real pain of an affair.

Early to bed, early to rise… Really?

Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?

The real cost of a conflicted marriage.

Search

Calendar

Categories

Pages

Blogroll

Archives

Contact us