How to make your marriage work.
May 8, 2014 Comments Off on How to make your marriage work.

Zen Habits

Most disputes and other conversations are about two things: do you care about me, and can I trust you. When you argue about putting the toilet seat down or whether we should go to the in-laws’ for Thanksgiving, it’s only partly about those actual things. What it’s really about is this: I care about the toilet seat (or going to my parents’ house for dinner), so can you show me you care about what I care about?
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What correlates with sexual health?
May 6, 2014 3 Comments on What correlates with sexual health?

Rodale News

Researchers used data from online surveys after about 1,050 men and 2,056 women 18 to 60 years old answered questions regarding current and past vibrator use (with themselves or a partner) and sexual function. More than 52 percent of women said they had used a vibrator, with about a quarter of them have used one in the past month. Vibrator users scored highest on the sexual function questions, which included desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, pain, and overall function.
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What’s love got to do with it?
May 2, 2014 Comments Off on What’s love got to do with it?

Globe and Mail –

First, the scientific reason:

As you may know, falling in love involves feelings of exhilaration, intense passion, and euphoria, especially if the loved one reciprocates the passion. Of course, if the loved one doesn’t feel the same way, these feelings morph into desperation and heartbreak. But let’s not go there today.

Back to falling in love. Our energy skyrockets, we have heightened powers of concentration and persistent thoughts about the object of our affection. During this state, our brains show heightened activity in areas that are rich in dopamine if scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
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It’s not your father’s depression…
May 1, 2014 Comments Off on It’s not your father’s depression…

Huffington Post

Men and women can experience depression in different ways, and although they also share many common signs and symptoms, a better understanding of the differences may help those with depression, researchers say.

“We have known about sex differences for years when it comes to depression, and they are absolutely essential to understanding the illness,” said Jill Goldstein, director of research at the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
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Eight critical barriers to the healing of addiction
April 25, 2014 Comments Off on Eight critical barriers to the healing of addiction

Society tells those struggling with addiction too, “Just quit it.”

It sounds so logical and so simple to those uttering the words — and every addict agrees with the plan and even pulls it off for short periods of time.

Then religion comes alongside and delivers what we believe is a more compassionate message: “With the help of Christ (And a little guilt — er, accountability — from your Promise Keepers group) just quit it.”
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For the sake of your marriage, TALK!!!
April 23, 2014 Comments Off on For the sake of your marriage, TALK!!!

Huffington Post –

That distinction became very important in determining which relationships survived. At the end of five years, 43 percent of couples who had revealed the infidelity were divorced compared to 80 percent of the couples whose infidelity was kept secret.

“The current results suggest that many revealed infidelity couples were able to sustain the gains made during treatment and preserve the integrity of the relationship,” the researchers explained.
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Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement
April 17, 2014 Comments Off on Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement

Daily Beast

The scandal around Phillips is just the latest in a long line of ugly shocks to the far Christian right that threatens to destabilize and possibly capsize the community. As The Wire reported in early March, Bill Gothard, the leader of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, resigned his position in the wake of a series of accusations of alleged sexual abuse from dozens of women in the organization.
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Driving addicts to use really risky drugs.
April 16, 2014 Comments Off on Driving addicts to use really risky drugs.

PsychCentral

Changing supply does little to change demand when it comes to drugs of abuse. Why? Because addiction is a chronic brain disease that changes the function and structure of the brain, and because people often use drugs to cope with painful emotions. Neither of these problems is cured by making drugs less available.
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Understanding the mental processes which create mood disorders.
April 11, 2014 Comments Off on Understanding the mental processes which create mood disorders.

Psych Central

For more than a decade, researchers have known that all major psychological disorders – including depression, anxiety and even schizophrenia – are associated with an excessive tendency to rumination. When faced with depressive or anxious urges, your mind often goes into overdrive by becoming excessively engrossed in thoughts.
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Understanding the heart of feminine hypersexuality
April 8, 2014 Comments Off on Understanding the heart of feminine hypersexuality

Psychology Today

The new Lars von Trier film Nymphomaniac: Volume I is the confessional tale of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a traumatized, shame-filled, hypersexual woman. We first encounter her lying in an alley in a pool of her own blood. She is discovered there by Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), a kindly man who takes her in and nurtures her with hot tea, a warm bed, and an empathetic set of ears. To him, Joe conveys her lifelong history of sexual acting out. What a lot of the people who see this film will likely wonder is: How realistic is this movie? Do women like Joe really exist?
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Session Notes

How to make your marriage work.

What correlates with sexual health?

What’s love got to do with it?

It’s not your father’s depression…

Eight critical barriers to the healing of addiction

For the sake of your marriage, TALK!!!

Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement

Driving addicts to use really risky drugs.

Understanding the mental processes which create mood disorders.

Understanding the heart of feminine hypersexuality

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