I WAS RIGHT ABOUT FOOD!

Posted by Dr.J on May 24, 2013  /   2 comments

At this year's American Psychiatric Association meeting in San Francisco, just completed, Dr Drew Ramsey, MD, talked about three large studies suggesting that what we eat does have a large impact on our moods. He reviewed Sanchez-Villega's large study of Spanish college students (1). In this well-known study, she and her colleagues found that one's […]

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HANG IN THERE!

Posted by Dr.J on May 09, 2013  /   no comment

Recently a man asked me how to keep people working hard when they aren’t having much success. His business involves encouraging people to make sales of the company’s products.  His products are of high quality, but not everyone wants them. So the sales representatives have to make a lot of calls to make their sales […]

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GET STRONGER ON STRENGTHS

Posted by Dr.J on May 08, 2013  /   no comment

What are your strengths? Are you using them each day? The new website, viame.org, offers the Values In Action (VIA) to both adults and youth, and their versions are only half as long as the versions you might have seen on www.authentichappiness.org. Still at no cost, although if you want a more extensive report (rather […]

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ON UNDERSTANDING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Posted by Dr.J on May 06, 2013  /   no comment

Magpies have a  particular “here is a cat” call they do. For years, a pair of magpies have had a nest in one of our Austrian pines. I have seen them squawking at our cat when he comes out to patrol the yard. They get right down on the lawn with him, hop up within […]

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