Category: Resources

  • Stress Management Pages

    The stress management section of MayoClinic.com has lots and lots and lots of ideas about how to handle stress.  Here, a sampling of links: Stress relief: Learn how to say no Discover the why, when and how of saying no to reduce stress. Forgiveness Forgiveness and letting go can lead you down the path of healing…

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  • Chronic Pain Anonymous

    Added to the resources page here, Chronic Pain Anonymous.  New and not huge, you’re more likely to find online or phone meetings than one nearby.  From the site: How do I know if I may benefit from Chronic Pain Anonymous? If your life is managed around your experience of pain and if you make choices…

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  • Journaling and Chronic Pain

    A new page on the TMS Wiki details various approaches to journaling. They’re up there to help people with chronic pain, but journaling can be a big help to just about anyone.  Among the approaches on the page: List Making, Spider Writing, Free Writing, Unsent Letters, and Dialogue. Several workbooks, which’ll help you through the…

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  • Mindful Computing

    Heard of this?  Stillness Buddy.  Designed for those who find themselves jumping from one thing to another on the computer without a second’s break or breath.  From the site: Stillness Buddy works by displaying on your desktop screen, short “moments of stillness” and longer “mindfulness pauses,” spread out during the day. These breaks are very brief so…

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  • The Moral Life of Babies

    Do we start out with a sense of right and wrong or not?  A long exploration in the NYT Magazine: [T]he current work…on baby morality, might seem like a perverse and misguided next step. Why would anyone even entertain the thought of babies as moral beings? From Sigmund Freud to Jean Piaget to Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologists…

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