Saying goodbye is never easy. It’s one of life’s biggest clichés that holds true for everybody. Goodbyes may come in different forms—death, migration, breakups—but all of them come with one inescapable thing: pain in varying degrees.
Why is it difficult?
If you find yourself having a hard time bidding farewell, it means that you have given a part of yourself to that person or thing. Goodbyes are difficult because it means letting go of something or someone you’ve had or spent time with for a particular period of time. read more...
Moving Past The Pain
Friday, May 21, 2010
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Labels: death, family, grief loss and bereavement, health, kids and teens, Mental Health, pain
Tips On How To Explain Death To Your Preschooler
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Honesty is the best way to help children cope and mourn naturally.
Death is an inescapable part of life and is never easy for anyone to handle. Explaining death to a child is very difficult when you are grieving yourself. We try to protect our children by leaving them out of the discussion and rituals associated with death, making the child feel anxious and alone. read more...
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Labels: Child, death, grandparent, grief loss and bereavement, health, Mental Health, ritual, spider-man
Want Sharper Memory?
Sunday, December 28, 2008
TV really does your work brain-specifically, your memory. Nearly 30,000 Australians took a memory test online to see how well they could recall faces, signs, lists and names. People who watched less than an hour of TV a day had high scores. But those who watched more than one hour a day did not fare as well. Other factors linked to higher memory scores: consuming fewer than two drinks a day, reading novels and playing trivia games. (Go to to more.com/memory put your gray matter to the test.) read more...
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Labels: Mental Health
Top 10 Biggest Brain Damaging Habits
Monday, December 22, 2008
Avoid the to 10 biggest brain damaging habits.
1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar
level.This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.
2. Overeacting
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.
3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease. read more...
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Labels: Mental Health