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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reported in January that the number of women drinking dangerous amounts of alcohol—leading to acute overdoses, or in combination with drugs, or to death—has been rising sharply in the United States. Researchers noted that the rate of deaths from alcohol abuse among…

This is a time of fear, anxiety, and uncertainty for most of the world. Health, families, careers, finances and well-being are being challenged by the pandemic that, so far, is undermining the safety of our loved ones and of our society. This pressure, this stress, can only make us more…

Spiritual is the adjective form of the word spirit, which comes from the Latin word for “breath,” which means the thing that animates life. From biology we know that even bits of stem or leaf stalk can regenerate their entire root system, given the chance. An entire plant can grow…

Do you want more happiness in your life? Well, who doesn’t!  Do you feel like you need to laugh more? When did you last have a good belly laugh?  As children, we laughed hundreds of times a day, but as adults, life tends to be taken so much more seriously…

It’s February, so everyone expects a good deal of media coverage on matters of the heart. I’m not one to offer relationship advice but I can address the subject of heart health from a medical and scientific point of view.  Aside from being a woman and having a heart, I…

Studies conducted in the last 10 years showed that fatigue is one of women’s top five health concerns—and that as many as 45% of women have fatigue resulting from stress. You need to ask yourself why you’re always tired—is it due to a lack of sleep, anxiety or some kind…

The Transcendental Meditation technique is easy to practice—once properly learned—but it can’t be learned from a book, website or download. The experience of transcending is very subtle and delicate. TM teachers provide very precise instructions to enable you to experience the subtle states of thinking. Certified Teachers Learning the TM…

Every mother naturally wants her child to thrive. These days our society has a way of piling on the pressure to create high-performance children. With that—and the fact of more mothers working outside the home than ever before—being a mother has become more demanding and difficult. We’ve all heard terms…

This month we begin not only a new year, but also a new decade. A decade that—if it continues with the same momentum of the last decade—will most likely prove to be historically pivotal for the advancement of women to roles of full equality of leadership, opportunity and power. However,…

Four thousand years ago, the ancient Babylonians started a tradition of the celebration of the New Year by making new year’s resolutions. Their new year began when they planted their crops and promised their gods that they would pay their debts and return anything they’d borrowed, in order to gain…