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Barbara DeShong, Ph.D. - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
I am a psychologist and a mystery writer.
TOO RICH and TOO THIN, Not an autobiography, a humorous mystery will come out this summer from Echelon Press.
I have non-fiction book on stress management and give presentations around the nation on stress, humor, behavior management, and various psychological topics, particularly family systems treatment, eating disorders and treatment of marriage issues.
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- Positive Relationships Come From Attitude
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] A while back-- before the results of being tossed on my head too many times started to become obvious-- a friend and I took to the road following up a tip on a horse who just might turn out to be the next state Green Hunter Champion. For those engaged in more meaningful pursuits, in the horse world, 'green' means 'new' and 'hunter' means...'horse who jumps over fake gates, walls, and streams, and other obstacles of the sort you'd find on an old English estate'.
- To Attract Love, Manage Your Anxiety and Listen to Your Partner
[Relationships:Love] Listening is attractive. Learn how to listen better and have a better relationship.
- Strategy to Help Someone Fall in Love With You, Be Available But Not Needy
[Relationships:Singles] A wife who had several appointments to deal with the troublesome thought that she did not feel as attracted to her husband as when they'd married several years before. Though he had an advanced education and an excellent position, he worried about his job and had no friends beyond his wife. Then in one week two things changed, neither of which had to do with the wife's efforts.
- Love - Finding and Keeping a Relationship - Falling in Love is More Than Magic
[Relationships:Love] Do you want to have your new potential relationship person call you back? You can influence him or her to be more curious about you.
- Women Over Fifty and on Your Own, It's Important to Choose Nice Hotels
[Home-and-Family:Baby-Boomer] You're a woman over fifty and want to travel on your own. What's the most important thing to consider in your plans?
- Strategies to Encourage a Person to Fall in Love With You
[Relationships:Love] You've met a knew person who might be "the one." Why not improve your chances?
- Great Ideas For Women Over Fifty - Travel, Reading, Movies, & Staying Active, All on Your Own
[Womens-Interests] Get over not wanting to do things alone. Why not make the years over fifty the most exciting of your life? No more waiting to do and see what you want until someone else agrees to do it with you.
- Bring Love & Keep Love - Giving Up Always Having to Be Right
[Relationships:Love] Do you know what drives people away from a relationship? Stubborn behavior. Learn how to be more attractive to a partner.
- Find Love, Keep Love, by Managing Anxiety Better
[Health-and-Fitness:Anxiety] Are you driving someone you love away because of your anxiety? Because of the way you over-react? Managing your emotions better is very attractive.
- Anxiety Makes You Blind, Learn to Make Better Decisions
[Health-and-Fitness:Anxiety] You can change your life by managing your anxiety better. Make better decisions by conquering anxiety.
- Bad Decisions, No Decisions, Anxiety - A Psychologist Tells the Truth
[Health-and-Fitness:Anxiety] Do you make decisions out of anxiety or your best thinking? When you make decisions out of anxiety, your life ends up a mess.
- Improve Your Marriage and Every Area of Your Life - A Psychologist Tells the Truth, Anxiety
[Health-and-Fitness:Anxiety] Anxiety is a big deal. What if you knew the one element of being human, that if you could change it, just a little every part of your life would improve?
- Improve Your Relationship, Attract People to You, Stop Whining and Start Glowing
[Self-Improvement] The next time you are with your special person and you feel the urge to complain or to focus on your worries-mention how impressed and excited you were hearing of the incredible rescue of the captain of the Alabama off the coast of Somalia. What? Am I nuts making such a simple and strange recommendation?
- Tired? Procrastinating? Natural Drug Treatment
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Let's say you are having one of your down days. You have no energy, yet many tasks still on your list. Other people are irritating you and the harder you work, the more flattened you feel. You start to think... "Why not just let the rest of the day slide? Maybe tomorrow I'll have more energy." It is in this conversation with ourselves that the enemy, procrastination, takes hold of us. When this happens, tasks pile up, and the desire to avoid the task, and even sometimes the job or the home, increases.
- You Are What You Think, Go Forward With Confidence
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] You are what you think. Do you think you are capable? Your belief in yourself determines your goals and whether or not you reach them.
- To Get Love, Love Yourself First
[Relationships:Love] If you do not love yourself, you will turn off the person you are trying to attract. Dumping self-doubts in a relationship spells disaster.
- Love Means Saying You Are Sorry
[Relationships:Love] "If you love me, you will put up with anything I do." How could we possibly think that the one person we've designated as our most special person in the world, should be the person we expect to "put up with" our worst behavior?
- Psychologist Tells the Truth 2, Anxiety
[Health-and-Fitness:Anxiety] Why do we blame other people for our own behavior? How can we stop blaming other people for our not reaching our goals?
- Psychologist Tells the Truth - Part 1 - Change is Hard
[Reference-and-Education:Psychology] Having been in practice and consultation for over two decades, I'd like to give a little back, or pay a little forward. My plan is to share some of what I have I learned about psychology and people, particularly about what really works and what really doesn't when it comes to personal and relationship change.
- Don't Criticize Yourself and Blow Your Relationship
[Relationships:Dating] All of us have real or imagined shortcomings. One of the biggest mistakes we make in relationships is to bring attention to our shortcomings. Why would we do something so self-destructive?
- Reduce Stress - Give Life Permission
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Those of us who are "stress prone" make too big a deal about the inconveniences of the world, like traffic, long lines at the store, and unexpected weather changes. We make too big a deal out of the choices other people make and how they behave. We react as though we have to have the world and other people function a certain way or we're going to lose control of what goes on inside our own minds and bodies.
- Happy Marriage? Be Nice
[Relationships:Marriage] "Basics of Marriage Counseling" included the notion that people can improve their marriage experience by following only two rules: 1) be nice; and, 2) stay out of each other's business. Sounds easy, but if consistently being nice and staying out of each other's business were easy, the marriage counseling profession would be in trouble. Most people get too complicated when putting "be nice" into action.
- Marriage Counseling Basics
[Relationships:Marriage] People seek marriage counseling are struggling. Should we stay together? Are we only causing each other more hurt?
- Stress Prone Thinking, Needing to Be Right
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] The need for one person to be wrong and another to be right causes much personal stress. To experience less stress, we have to let go of insisting on being right all the time about everything.
- Stress Prone Thinking, All Or Nothing
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] People with Stress Prone Personalities do not know how to put a little fun into everything we do. Stress Prone people think in terms of all or nothing. Changing your thinking can change how much stress you experience.
- Stress Prone Thinking, Exaggeration
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Exaggerating situations causes stress. You can reduce stress by learning new thinking habits.
- The Stress Prone Personality
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] We all live in the same high-paced world, so why do some people suffer more of the effects of stress--irritability, over-eating, over-drinking, accidents, poor relationships, poor health, low energy, and depression--than other people? Stress isn't caused by long hours, a crowded schedule, demanding technology, or other specific situations we identify as responsible for "stress." Stress is the body's response to a real or imagined threat.
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