Category — Discovering Health

They said there was no cure for bipolar affective disorder. True “manic depressives” like me would always be medicated to manage the firecracker highs of mania and the deep black lows of depression. In 1993, there were stacks of pill bottles on my fridge. Over the years I tried thirteen in total. Uppers, downers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants all labeled with my name.

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It is a fact that Americans and people around the world are sleeping less than they did just a decade ago. In fact, the trend seems to be getting worse. While most of us know that sleep deprivation can rob us of concentration and make us cranky, most do not realize that it can actually lead to weight gain.

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This question is on the lips of millions of women in the industrialized world. Most women have been exposed to media reports about the potential dangers of long term Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) covered in front-page articles of newspapers and magazines such as Time and Newsweek. This article will provide some common sense that may assist you or a loved one in solving the dilemma of what to do about supporting your hormone balance as you age.

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In the romanticism of this nation’s early years, the one-room schoolhouse represents ingenuity at its finest. Depicted in the movies as the epicenter of the small, rural communities, this learning environment united the spirits of cooperation, patience, initiative and flexibility. When we step back and look at life in general as a one-room schoolhouse, we see that living and learning together brings out the challenges as well as the possibilities of growing through relationships from the smallest neighborhood to the largest campus in our earthly Academy.

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In the movie “Goodwill Hunting” Matt Damon plays a brilliant angry young man who has a history of violence and has been bound over by the court to a psychotherapist played by Robin Williams. In the pivotal scene towards the end of the movie the psychologist and the boy are standing facing each other and he says…
“It’s not your fault.”
(Pause) “I know”
“It’s not your fault…….”
“I know…….”
“It’s not your fault……..”
“I know…….”
“It’s not your fault……..”
“I know…….”
“It’s not your fault……..”
The boy suddenly pushes the psychologist “look man, don’t xxxx with me”
“It’s not your fault…….. It’s not your fault……..”
With this the boy breaks down and grabs hold of Williams and sobs in his arms and again Williams says, “It’s not your fault.”

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Love and compassion are the very foundation of fully functioning individuals, families, communities of vitality, and ever deepening interpersonal relationships. Although the qualities leading to highly effective people and organizations are often dismissed or trivialized in our world we must involve ourselves in environments and participate in programs providing each human with these qualities of great leaders. In order to nurture our true being we must connect ourselves to fellow travelers walking the same path. This is a path taken by the most experienced human relations experts in the world today.

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