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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY EVERYONE! AND I TRULY MEAN THAT TO ALL OF YOU. THAT SAID, AND THAT “IS” WHAT ALL THE CARDS SAY… 
BUT FOR THOSE OF US WHO MAY HAVE “BROKEN” HEARTS, IT MAY NOT BE SO HAPPY. POSSIBLY YOU’VE LOST A RELATIONSHIP WITH A LOVER, OR YOU’VE EXPERIENCE THE DEATH OF A SPOUSE, OR YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH A TROUBLED FAMILY MEMBER, OR YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH WORRISOME HEALTH ISSUES, OR YOU ARE ALONE.
THEN YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH A BROKEN, HURTFUL HEART.
I DON’T THINK THERE IS A CARD FOR THAT, SO FOR THOSE OF YOU, I WANTED TO MAKE SOME SUGGESTIONS IF THERE IS NO PERSON IN YOUR LIFE TO SHARE A ROMANTIC VALENTINE EXPERIENCE WITH ON THAT SPECIAL NIGHT.
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Posted by Lucinda Bassett in Grief, Loneliness, Loss.
Remember the days when finding an apartment, job, or second hand item like a washer or dryer was all done in the classified section of the newspaper? Currently, like many other things, this information has shifted to the Internet. And although the shift has made our lives easier, it also increases the risk of being scammed or ripped off. One of the hottest places online currently to find secondhand items, apartments, or even a date, is Craigslist.
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Posted by Lucinda Bassett in Depression, Grief, Helping Scam Victims, Loneliness, Loss, Lucinda Bassett, Sadness, Scams, Truth Be Told, Victims.
The success and survival of Lucinda Bassett: The story behind Truth Be Told
Former president of The Midwest Center For Stress and Anxiety, Lucinda Bassett is a nationally acclaimed motivational speaker and best-selling author of From Panic to Power and Life Without Limits. Her life-changing techniques have been shared with a variety of major corporations such as AT&T, and McDonalds, and professional associations such as LPGA and the AIDS Foundation, as well as many educational institutions.
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Posted by Lucinda Bassett in Anxiety, Coach, Depression, Grief, Health, Illness, Loneliness, Loss, Lucinda Bassett, Mental Illness, Negative Thinking, Positive Thinking, PTSD, Relationships, Sadness, Sexual Abuse, Starting Over, Truth Be Told.
Here’s the good news. Great worriers make fabulous goal-setters and achievers. After all, worriers like you are focused, determined, and set on particular outcome. You have a powerful imagination, you think in minute detail, and you are extremely creative and a futuristic thinker. This is the same set of skills it takes to succeed. So if you’re a world-class worrier, you can also be a world-class achiever. All you need to do is change the focus of your attention from worrying to achieving great things.
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Posted by Lucinda Bassett in Anxiety, Coach, Depression, Grief, Health, Illness, Loneliness, Loss, Lucinda Bassett, Mental Illness, Negative Thinking, Positive Thinking, PTSD, Relationships, Sadness, Sexual Abuse, Starting Over, Truth Be Told.
There has been significant research done on food, nutrients, and depression. The overwhelming tendency to call “fat” a culprit is not accurate in every case because our deep limbic system needs a certain amount of fat in order to operate properly. It is the kind of fat that makes the difference, like that in omega – 3 fatty acids, which are prevalent in fish.
Proteins, essential for the deep limbic system, are the building blocks of brain neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine, all implicated in depression and mood disorders.
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Posted by Lucinda Bassett in Anxiety, Coach, Depression, Grief, Health, Illness, Loneliness, Loss, Lucinda Bassett, Mental Illness, Negative Thinking, Positive Thinking, PTSD, Relationships, Sadness, Sexual Abuse, Starting Over, Truth Be Told.
