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Thriving After Divorce announced as winner in the Self Help: Relationship category of the “Best Books 2010” Awards, sponsored by USA Book News

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Thriving After Divorce awarded second place in 2010 self-help books by Premier Book Awards!

Living Now Awards gives Thriving After Divorce a bronze metal in the category Relationships/Marriage.

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Are You Allergic To New Dating Ideas?

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Monday, 30 January 2012 20:34

In a recent journal of Psychological Science, a research study reported that people are often allergic to creative ideas.  They’d rather keep trying the old way of doing things—even if they don’t get the results they were hoping for—than risk a new behavior.

I find this information in sync with my own experience coaching singles.  Whenever suggestions are made about how to go about meeting someone, and those suggestions are different from traditionally held views on being asked out or finding dates, those ideas are often met with fear, disbelief, or humor bordering on sarcasm.  “Different” approaches to dating are not always considered reliable options.   The looks on people’s faces suggest I have just urged them to leap from a speeding train.  Obviously, they would prefer to stick with the tried and familiar dating practices of old—even if they aren’t working for them.

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Online Dating: 4 Reasons You Don’t Get Asked Out

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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:22

I’ve met lots of attractive people who cannot seem to get connected with a good date online.  They feel discouraged and even bitter about it.  They say things, like, “Internet dating is NOT for me.”  They think it’s the medium…rather than the message they are putting out there.  I’ve come to understand that the WAY they are doing Internet dating is what is causing the problem.  Because the truth is, there are millions and millions of people who are online every day looking for someone and not only do they find great dates…many of them find their soul mate.  Here are the four main reasons you may not be getting the results you want:

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SINGLES: 10 Ways To Get Smarter This Year

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Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:28

For those people who are dating, it’s important to know that being a smart single is a compelling part of your identity.  Multiple surveys list the quality of intelligence as one of the top criterion for mate selection.

Have you read the latest scientific advances in how to make yourself smarter?
New research in neurobiology and cognitive sciences gives us substantive tips and techniques on how to buff up our gray matter. Intelligence, once thought to be static and largely unchangeable after early childhood, is now considered to be capable of expanding by as much as twenty I.Q. points well into our 60s and 70s.

Here are ten simple ways to grow your brain cells this year.  Some of them may surprise you.

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How to Create a Lasting Love

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Thursday, 05 January 2012 19:50

What are the ingredients that make up a great life, a great career, or for that matter—a great relationship? What, essentially, is the quality that makes any of the above endure?

Work, lives, and loves that last bring to mind the legacy of architect and visionary, Alfred Boeke. He designed one of the first ecologically sound environmental communities called Sea Ranch in northern California in the 1960s.

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MOVIN’ ON… AND INTO A NEW YEAR

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Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:20

Have you been through a divorce, a breakup, or a parting of the ways, whether you were together a long time or not?  Most of my clients have.

And many of them spend a lot of time with the WHY factor.  Why did he/she cheat on me?  Why did she/he leave?  Why didn’t he/she take care of me?  Why did he/she have to be so mean?  Why wasn’t she/he more responsible?  Why am I so sad?  Why did they do what they did?  Why can’t I get on with my life?

If you have spent any time crying, sleeping late, feeling sick, and being totally lost…maybe you want to consider some of the following.

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