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Seasonal Issues

Below are the articles in the Seasonal Issues category. Each article title is followed by a short introduction of the content. You may click "Read excerpt" for a more comprehensive introduction or click the "Purchase" link to buy the article.

Holidays: Here They Come, Ready or Not
Somewhere around September when the weather changes, it starts. "It" is The Holidays, and whatever one celebrates, everyone has in common stress with a capital S. But there’s hope.
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How to Keep Your Cool in the Summertime
For all the talk about summertime and the living being easy, it may not be as easy as it seems.
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Life Lessons from the Garden
Reviled by many as a bothersome weed, the dandelion nevertheless continues to display its pert, yellow self in lawns everywhere, thriving in the face of adversity. What are the lessons there?
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New Year’s Resolutions: How to Make Them So You Can Keep Them
This will be the fourth year in a row Betty has made a New Year’s Resolution to exercise more. She’s also vowed to lose weight (an annual resolution since 1996), and to finally start that novel (this one goes all the way back to the 80s.) What goes wrong?
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Summer Vacations and Families — What To Do With All That Togetherness
Summer vacations with the family can be the best of times or the worst of times. How does a harried parent ensure that there’s more of the former?
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Summertime Drinking: When is it a Problem?
Summer brings more leisure time, longer daylight hours—and more drinking. When does increased drinking indicate a problem?
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Taking Stock
As we step through the doorway from one year to the next, it’s natural to look back as well as ahead. But what if instead, a person used the first part of the year to take stock of his or her life?
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Ten Things to Be Grateful For
A person may feel grateful for her health, safety, and loved ones. But what about the less obvious things that are all around?
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Ten Ways to Side-Step Holiday Stress
It has never been more critical for parents to talk with their children about difficult and often disturbing issues. Here are ten tips to help parents begin the dialogue.
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Those Holiday Blues are Real
It s not unusual to feel down during the holidays, but the blues don t have to ruin the holiday season. The first step is recognizing the symptoms and then taking some action and getting help.
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Top 10 Tips for Moving Through Depression
Connection, physicality, even singing; here are ten ways to lighten the dark.
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Top 10 Ways to Start (and Maintain) a Good New Year
How can a person start having a good year? Isn’t that easier said than done? These ten tips show how to begin.
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Top 10 Year-End Review Questions
The end of the year is not just a time to prepare for the next year. It’s also a great time to take stock of this one.
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