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Parents Need Sleep
Read more: Parents Need SleepA Q&A about the sleeplessness that comes with parenting. Chronic insomnia has been linked to a range of medical problems, from loss of concentration to high blood pressure…But can getting up throughout the night to tend to new baby cause long-term health problems as well?
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (For Free)
Read more: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (For Free)It’s free clinic day again at SCCC. Just show up 2-6pm today (Oct 3, 2010) at 5615 W. Pico to get some one-on-one CBT help. Not sure what CBT is? Here’s my rundown.
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Couples Therapy
Read more: Couples TherapyAbout.com helpfully rounds up the wisdom about couples therapy in Does Couples Counseling Work? and Benefits of Marriage Counseling. There are people who stay in an unhappy marriage until the resentment builds and they feel they have no choice but to divorce. They don’t voice their unhappiness, they go with the flow hoping something will change…
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Being a Baby
Read more: Being a BabyJonah Lehrer asks What’s it Like to Be a Baby? [B]abies don’t have a spotlight of attention: They have a lantern. If attention is like a focused beam in adults, then it’s more like a glowing bulb in babies, casting a diffuse radiance across the world. This crucial difference in attention has been demonstrated indirectly in a…
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How Not to Choke
Read more: How Not to ChokeScience Daily reports about a psychologist’s research into how and why people choke under pressure. “My research team and I have found that highly skilled golfers are more likely to hole a simple 3-foot putt when we give them the tools to stop analyzing their shot, to stop thinking,” Beilock said. “Highly practiced putts run…