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Depression: How to Recognize it and Regain Control

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How inconvenient that it takes extreme sickness, the onset of depression and the depth of frustration to make us wake up to the reality of the situations in our lives! How annoying that it takes a mountain of stress to make us realize the harm we are doing to our bodies and the poison we are putting into our pure intentions!

Sometimes, a wake up call is just too rude and the awakening resulting from it far too unavoidable. Taking a risk – with every uncomfortable turn in our stomach – becomes more palatable than not taking one because the fear of regret is not just the greatest fear in our path, it should be the only fear! [Read more…] about Depression: How to Recognize it and Regain Control

Start Traveling the World Today

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How do we crush travel barriers and start traveling the world today?

We crush them slowly, one at a time, with tender care and tough love. We crush them by living what we preach, by walking our talk, and by meaning what we say. We crush them with the truth, with facts, with information, with knowledge, with education, with empowering ideas into actions and dreams into realities.

I am talking about the surmountable psychological and emotional barriers surrounding the act of traveling and subsequently the mission to crush these barriers one by one. What is it that keeps you from committing to a vacation and not postponing month after month, year after year? [Read more…] about Start Traveling the World Today

The Path to Fulfillment: To Have or Not to Have Children

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The Utter Lack of Desire to Have Children

In my life, I have wished for a million things, I have dreamt a thousand dreams; I have pursued hundreds of passions and goals and yet, never for a serious minute in all of my fantastic 30 plus years have I wished to have a child.

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That’s me. I must be strange. I must be seriously out of the ordinary. I must be an aberration to the norm.

Yet, I am perfectly normal.

I am awfully feminine. I love all things girlish. I love traditions. I am crazy about my husband. I have a great relationship with my family. I had a happy childhood. I have cried at every single movie to ever involve a child and parent tragedy. I adore little baby animals. I like most children and I fall in love with a few. I have all the usual desires and needs of a woman — except the desire to mother a child. [Read more…] about The Path to Fulfillment: To Have or Not to Have Children