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Author Archive for William R Colagrande MS – Page 3

Lunar Observations

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Thursday, November 7th, 2013

For thousands of years people have believed that the full moon exerts a mysterious control over human mental and behavioral processes.  Our word lunatic shares the same basic Latin root Luna that stands for the moon. Is there really anything to this?… Read More

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Categories : General Interest
Tags : are we influenced by the moon, doe a full moon influence human behavior, doe the full moon cause insanity, emotions and moon

Sympathy for the Devil

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Thursday, October 24th, 2013

          Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. – Carl Jung

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Categories : Community Building, Personal Growth, Relationship
Tags : accepting ourselves, contacting our secret selves, duality, embracing who we are, healing the inner split, human duality, self acceptance, understanding our nature

On Perspective

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Tuesday, October 1st, 2013

          One of the major problems of our hectic, fast-paced modern life is that we are very prone to lose our sense of perspective. … Read More

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Categories : Community Building, Personal Growth, Relationship
Tags : change your persepctive to be happier, change your perspective of people, change your perspective on life, change your perspective on problems, half empty or half full, taking control of your perspective

Dealing with Emotional Dependency

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Friday, September 20th, 2013

Turning Over A New Leaf: Dealing With Emotional Dependency

Dealing with emotional dependency is no laughing matter. Many good people are lonely and just want to find a good relationship for themselves, but their best efforts are met with repeated failure. Though each new relationship shows promise at first, they soon devolve into the familiar pattern of betrayal, hurt feelings, … Read More

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Categories : Community Building, Personal Growth, Relationship
Tags : coping with emotional dependency, dealing with emotional dependency, emotional dependency, handling emotional dependency, overcoming emotional dependency

Forgiveness

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Thursday, September 5th, 2013

Forgiveness, it has been said, is the key to happiness. As happiness is such an elusive commodity for so many of us, it seems like exploring a key to it might be a worthwhile endeavor.

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Categories : Community Building, Personal Growth, Relationship
Tags : forgiveness, forgiving your husband, forgiving your spouse, forgiving your wife, forgiving yourself, how to forgive, learning forgiveness, practicing forgiveness

Willpower

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Thursday, August 29th, 2013

If someone could harness and bottle willpower, no doubt they would make a fortune. The notion of willpower can mean different things for different people so let’s take a closer look at the subject.

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Categories : General Interest, Personal Growth
Tags : achieve willpower, attain willpower, control willpower, develop willpower, exercise willpower, strengthen willpower, understand willpower, willpower

So I Married Someone Who Snores

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Thursday, August 15th, 2013

No jury in the world would ever convict me is a recurrent thought while being kept awake at night by your spouse who snores. It seems particularly bitter when you consider that it is their sleeping that is keeping you awake. Homicidal fantasies abound.… Read More

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Categories : Relationship
Tags : coping with a snoring spouse, dealing with a snoring spouse, keep my husband from snoring, keep my wife from snoring, silence a snorer, snoring, snoring husband, snoring spouse, snoring wife

Express to De-stress

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Thursday, August 8th, 2013

  Stress. Why is it that healthcare experts, feature newscasters, the AARP and our wives, families and friends always want to talk to us about stress? … Read More

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Categories : Child Rearing, Community Building, Personal Growth
Tags : emotional expression in men, men coping with stress, men expressing emotions, men handling stress, men's health, men's stress, why can't men express emotions

Death, Where is Thy Sting?

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Thursday, August 1st, 2013

While it serves no useful purpose to dwell too much upon our mortality, it serves even less purpose pretending we’re immortal. I think an unspoken denial of death, acting as if we’re not going to die, is a significant and under appreciated problem in modern life.… Read More

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Categories : Community Building, General Interest, Personal Growth
Tags : balancing mortality, coping with death, coping with mortality, dealing with mortality, dealing with your own death, death, mortality, preparing for death

Handling Guilt Feelings

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Thursday, July 25th, 2013

Very often I hear people complain of feeling guilty, when it is fairly clear to me they have nothing to feel guilty about. As Guilt has become a generic term with a variety of meanings I thought I might attempt to cast some light on exactly what guilt is.

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Categories : Personal Growth
Tags : catholic guilt, dealing with guilt, false guilt, getting over guilt, gulit and shame, handling guilt feelings, overcoming guilt, riddled with guilt, symptoms of guilt
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