Cruising for baby strollers is a lot like shopping the car dealers: You hear the same hype about styling, braking systems and shock absorption. And if, like most parents, you want to avoid an inflexible-framed English pram in favor of a more practical collapsible stroller, you may be tempted to cough up for the Range Rover of the breed: the top-of-the-line, all-chrome, 32-pound Swedish-made Emmaljunga Jupiter (pictured on page 176) for around $350. Our advice: Skip it.
The Jupiter and other high-enders including the Maclaren Chamade ($499; 33 pounds) and the Inglesina Baby Classic ($300; 28 pounds) are combination carriages and strollers with reclining seats long enough so that an infant can lie flat. And the top-ticket carriage strollers do have one advantage: "better shock absorption for a very smooth ride," says Sami Bandaks, president of Emmaljunga's U.S. distributor. But that attribute comes at a cost--one measured in more than dollars and cents. "After carrying a stroller in and out of your car, you realize what a difference there is between 10 and 30 pounds," says Alan Fields, co-author of Baby Bargains (Windsor Peak Press, $11.95).
Unless you'll be making a habit of piloting Junior over particularly rough terrain, the pediatricians, baby-product experts and parents we interviewed say you needn't spring for a deluxe model to get safe, smart wheels for your tot. Lighter, well-made, less expensive makes will also go the distance--minus the heavy lifting. Worthy alternatives:
Lightweight strollers (10 to 19 pounds) are also adjustable, but the backs don't always go completely flat--many retain a 170 degrees angle. That's not a problem, says Dr. William Sears, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine and author of The Baby Book (Little Brown, $19.95). "A baby sleeps just as well at a slight incline," he points out. Like carriage strollers, these vehicles can accommodate a babe from birth through age four or five. Plus, they fold and can be carried more easily. They're usually made of lightweight aluminum. Look for one with a spacious underseat storage basket and reversible handles, so you can push the child while he or she faces toward you (best for infants) or away from you (better for curious toddlers). Two such models recommended by baby experts: the Peg Perego Puma ($200; 17 pounds) and the Combi Avid ($170; 18 pounds).
Umbrella strollers (five to 14 pounds), so named because they quickly fold up like umbrellas, are made of low-grade steel or aluminum. Adjustable only slightly or not at all, the fabric seats do not provide head support, so these fast-moving carriers are inappropriate for children under six months. But they're perfect as extra strollers for frequent travelers who want to jam them into an airplane overhead bin. Avoid the $25 cheapies in favor of more expensive, better-made models like the Combi Savvy IV ($139; seven pounds) or the Aprica Citimini ($179; seven pounds).
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Daunis Fine Jewelry
After
nearly thirty years working together, Patricia Daunis-Dunning and her
husband, William Dunning, display the kind of comfortable familiarity
and creative synergy that make for a great team. Seated in the front
office of their three-story walk-up studio and showroom in the heart of
Portland, Maine, they tell their shared story.
Born
in Maine--she inland, in Auburn, he near the coast, in Brunswick--they
both attended the Rhode Island School of Design. While they overlapped a
year (Bill was a senior when Patty was in her first year, in 1969),
they did not meet until several years later when a match-making friend
introduced them. They married on a saltwater farm in Maine during 1974.
Daunis-Dunning
intended to study architecture when she got to RISD, but ended up
trying several different artforms. In textile design, she learned she
could render "really well," but tying tiny threads did not suit her
sensibility. She eventually discovered the metal shop, which master
metalsmith Jack Prip directed (he had come to RISD in 1963 as an
instructor and ended up launching the undergraduate and graduate
programs in metal). Prip and three graduate students took Daunis-Dunning
under their wing. She also studied with the pioneering Dutch-born
jewelry designer Emmy van Leersum, a "taskmaster" who helped hone her
vision.
Bill
Dunning had an equally stimulating course of studies at the noted
design school. Two teachers in particular stood out: sculptor John
Bozarth and painter George Pappas. Dunning credits the former with
teaching him how to make objects "turn the corner," to make them truly
three dimensional. Pappas taught the Albers color course, which helped
his student develop an eye for arranging gemstones in remarkable
combinations.
Dunning
recalls extensive work in classical disciplines, including drawing and
modeling, "but once you got through that," he notes, "you had the
freedom." His wife shares that memory of students pulling all-nighters
to finish projects. The metalwork excited her, but she tried to get
around doing jewelry projects. "I was never going to do jewelry," she
remembers vowing to herself; "I loved hollowware."
At
one point, Daunis-Dunning told her mentor Prip that she wanted to learn
many techniques, to which he replied, "You can learn them later." While
teaching in the Program in Artisanry with metalsmith Fred Woell at
Boston University from 1976 to 1981, she heard the same desire expressed
by her students. "Memorizing all the words in the dictionary," she
remembers telling them, "won't make you a great writer." They had to
have a story, she advised, and then they would figure out how to tell
it.
After
graduating from RISD, Daunis-Dunning set a goal of teaching metal at a
college level without a master's degree based on her ability as an
artist. She had heard about the program at BU and liked the philosophy:
teach craft in such a way that students can make a living from it when
they graduate. With a recommendation from Fran Merritt, director of the
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (where she had served as a monitor
for several workshops), she was hired. While she loved teaching at BU,
Daunis-Dunning noticed how professors with tenure tended to subsequently
stop pushing themselves as artists. She took a year off (1979-1980) to
work on designs and then went back for a final stint, saving everything
she earned to open her own business.
The
first home for Daunis Fine Jewelry was the State Theatre Building at
the center of what is now known as the Arts District. The building has
housed many jewelers over the years, providing studio space for the
likes of Stephani Briggs, Devta Doolan and Stephanie Sersich. The
business stayed there for four years (1981-1985) and then moved across
the street to its current quarters.
Meanwhile,
her husband had been in the wine business, but he had become
disillusioned with the direction it was headed. When the jewelry
business moved to the larger space, he came on as manager and partner.
Today, the couple lives in Brunswick, about forty-five minutes north of
Portland. They like having the studio separate from their home. They
opened a showroom in the space five years ago; prior to that, they only
sold their work through galleries. The decision to add a showroom came
out of the realization that while people in North Carolina, Wisconsin
and further afield knew about their work, in their home state they were
barely visible.
Since
opening, Daunis-Dunning reports, they have widened their following in
Maine and New England and have had some exciting projects come through
the door. The showroom and workshop have become a destination as the
buzz has spread. "We're not swishy," says Dunning; "It's not your usual
jewelry store." The showroom offers a retrospective selection of the
couple's work from over the years, from a piece of blacksmith work by
Dunning that hangs over a door to a group of exceptional married metal
works, which used to be their production pieces.
"We
don't want to be predictable," explains Dunning when asked about the
approach that he and his wife take to designing jewelry. As they develop
new work, they push themselves to avoid the trap of the status quo.
"This creating is supposed to be hard to do," Dunning says.
Daunis-Dunning echoes that sentiment: "As an artist you need to push
yourself."
Daunis-Dunning
comes up with the basic design idea, working from an assortment of
projects she keeps on hand: bits and pieces of forms she has created in
copper and brass that serve as an incubator--prompts--for finished
pieces. Sometimes she will set a timer and see how many shapes she can
come up with--she enjoys the pressure to create. "A lot of pieces start
with a form," she notes, "and then I push it."
After
establishing the design, the couple will work out the manufacturing of
the item and how many pieces should be in the collection. While his wife
focuses on the metalwork, Dunning provides the color. "We start off
with a form that stands alone and looks great by itself," she explains,
"and then Bill embellishes it to make it more interesting," adding that
"if it's not good to start with, putting stones on it will not improve
it."
They
consistently seek to push the envelope. One suite of pieces features
toothpicks, which have been cast in gold and silver and then arranged in
dynamic configurations. A toothpick brooch resembles a bolt of
lightning. "It's all in your mind, what's precious," says
Daunis-Dunning. Asked about some of his favorite stones, her husband
immediately mentions spinels. They come in all colors, he explains, but
red is the most desirable. He has an emotional response to stones and an
intuitive sense of how they will work together.
One
collection bears the curious name "Atuik," which turns out to be an
acronym for "All tied up in knots." Daunis-Dunning traces the
inspiration for these woven pieces to the New Works program at the
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, a special biennial session offered
to former faculty. She wanted to create something that bridged
sculptural and woven/textural forms. Her studio mate suggested she visit
a resident basketmaker, which led to the design.
The
night before meeting with this writer, the pair could be found at the
Space Gallery, one of the most happening arts venues in Portland.
Dunning was there to cheer on his wife as she took part in a Pecha
Kucha, those fast action PowerPoint-fueled presentations begun in Japan
in 2003 (the word can loosely be translated as "chit-chat," but there is
nothing casual about them).
For
her twenty-slide, six-plus-minute talk, Daunis-Dunning recounted the
exhilarating and somewhat terrifying tale of a special commission
completed the year before, an eighteen-karat gold egg to honor a
retiring CEO of a Chicago bank. In addition to the egg, the couple
suggested a clutch of small sculptural elements representing moments in
the man's life. Made of sterling silver and held in a black silk purse,
these objects included a cast of the Knife Edge, the narrow ridge at the
top of Mount Katahdin, Maine's highest mountain.
Daunis
Fine Jewelry has received a number of prizes over the years. The egg
won first place for "custom design distinction" at the twenty-second
annual MJSA Vision Award Design Competition earlier this year. It was an
"all hands on deck" project for the studio, with members of the Daunis
workshop contributing at every stage of the project. The couple has
drawn their workshop team from the Maine College of Art, Southern Maine
Community College and other programs (their first employee, Sharon
Portelance, teaches at MECA). The current group includes Aaron Decker,
Holly Gooch, Daniel Marcucio, Gillian Bryant, and Lindsey Simpson. In
some cases their stint at the benches has lasted a long time (Gooch is
in her eighth year).
"People
love the workshop," says Dunning, noting that it gives someone who does
not understand how a piece of jewelry is made a chance to see the
workings of an artist. At the same time, the bench team members enjoy
sharing the process and the challenges. "It's good for their work to
talk about it with visitors," he says. "The bench is a place to figure
out if you're going to succeed as a jeweler."
Commissions
have helped Daunis Fine Jewelry weather some rough patches, especially
the 2008 downturn in the markets. They work with clients, who often come
bearing gemstones that they wish to have set in new designs. The couple
thrives on creative problem-solving, whether working on a commission or
a new suite of ornaments.
They
consider jewelry to be site-specific sculpture. "If I was a sculptor
and I was commissioned to create something for a lobby," says
Daunis-Dunning, "I would visit the building, walk around the space,
study the dimensions, lighting." The same thing goes for a ring or a set
of earrings: they have to work with the body they will adorn.
The
business has gained extra visibility--and traffic--through Portland's
First Friday Art Walk, which was launched in 2000, and now encompasses a
wide swath of the city. Daunis Fine Jewelry was an early venue
participant. Recently, Daunis-Dunning served on the Creative Portland
task force focused on the First Friday Art Walk. Daunis Fine Jewelry
mounts a new show every two months, providing another incentive to visit
the studio. Among the offerings this year were an exhibition of
encaustic paintings by Chesye Ventimiglia and "The Opulent Forest," a
display of nature-related jewelry by Aaron Decker, a goldsmith at the
studio.
Daunis-Dunning
participates in a number of trunk shows across the country, often
working through galleries--Spectrum Art and Jewelry in Wilmington, North
Carolina, Rasmussen Diamonds in Racine, Wisconsin, to name a couple.
She and her husband also do juried regional craft shows, including the
Paradise City fair in Northampton, Massachusetts, and the Maine Crafts
Guild's Directions show in Bar Harbor.
Many
of their pieces are inspired by the Maine landscape. For example, the
"Water" bracelets and rings relate to the rivulets and the forms they
create in the sand at low tide on Popham Beach in Phippsburg. The shapes
in these pieces curve and intertwine in an organic manner. Clients have
the option to have gemstones or diamonds set in the interstices between
the wavy lines of fourteen karat gold or sterling silver.
"I
love water, light playing on water," says Daunis-Dunning. "That's the
stuff that makes you go, 'Whoa!' " Clients have complimented her on the
movement in her forms. "They don't actually move," she notes, "but they
move your eye around--they have visual movement."
The
business's tagline recognizes the special cachet the twenty-third state
enjoys: "Made in Maine, worn around the World." The branding is based
on a story provided by a client. Her daughter was in Italy and she
climbed Mount Vesuvius. When she reached the top, she encountered a
couple and they started talking. The wife asked, "Are you wearing Daunis
jewelry?" The client's daughter nearly fainted: she was.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Reasons to Get Into the Food Service Industry
Reasons to Get Into the Food Service Industry
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lincoln_G_Davis]Lincoln G Davis
Everybody can become a small business owner these days. They use the internet to make themselves visible, and through it they can reach potential clients that they otherwise couldn't reach without. Most of the time, however, businesses tend to revolve around being an online entrepreneur or a marketer. These so-called expert marketers actually have a lot of outsourced people doing most of the work for them.
If you want something a little more hands-on, one of the best industries to penetrate is the food service industry. The food service industry is perhaps one of the only few industries where competition isn't really competition. Everyone likes food, and different food establishments simply mean different tastes. That's perhaps the first reason to get into the food industry: as long as you are in a good location, offer good food, and don't overprice, you will always have customers.
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Finally, food service businesses typically aren't that hard to manage, unless you are already a big business. Managing the food service business is easy. The main problems you'll have would be getting the necessary equipment and finding your first few clients.
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If you want something a little more hands-on, one of the best industries to penetrate is the food service industry. The food service industry is perhaps one of the only few industries where competition isn't really competition. Everyone likes food, and different food establishments simply mean different tastes. That's perhaps the first reason to get into the food industry: as long as you are in a good location, offer good food, and don't overprice, you will always have customers.
Another reason to get into the food service industry is that you can start really small. If you have a lot of capital, for instance, you can go ahead and open up a restaurant. If you have a smaller capital, you can start with a small catering service offering a few set dishes. With proper cash flow management, you can start offering a longer menu. Eventually, you should be able to get your catering equipment in order and even expand whenever you're ready.
Another good reason to enter the food service industry is that you can stand out with your own original spin on your dishes. If you take a look back at Colonel Sanders, he had simply had a different chicken recipe. Sure, he had difficulty in getting into the market, but once he had his recipe out there, the rest is history. While you may not follow the exact same road that Sanders went through, having your own identity with your food service business will get people talking about you.
Finally, food service businesses typically aren't that hard to manage, unless you are already a big business. Managing the food service business is easy. The main problems you'll have would be getting the necessary equipment and finding your first few clients.
As for the equipment, it's not that hard to find. You can either just go on with your business as usual and setting aside your profits until you can purchase the equipment or you can seek a few companies that offer these equipment for lease. Either way, you don't have to delay the opening of your business.
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Saturday, October 25, 2014
A Halloween Themed Party - Creating A Night Of Nightmarish Tales
A Halloween Themed Party - Creating A Night Of Nightmarish Tales
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Daryl_Plaza]Daryl Plaza
A Halloween Themed Party - Creating a Night of Nightmarish Tales
Halloween is the only holiday of the entire year that truly inspires the imagination of adults and kids alike by encouraging the weirdest and most eccentric Halloween costumes for the numerous Halloween parties. The more outrageous a Halloween themed party is, the better. Halloween is the one holiday that is devoted to spooky fun!
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Where did Halloween Originate? A Brief History of Halloween
The name, Halloween, is derived from "All Hallow's Eve". This is the name given in a number of European countries, including Ireland, to the night before "All Hallow's Day", or "All Saint's Day" on November 1st. This evolved, over time, from "All-Hallow-Even", to "Hallowe'en", and finally to the spelling we recognize today of "Halloween". The celebration of Halloween on October 31st started as an ancient Celtic celebration, known as "Samhain", which signified the end of summer. The Celts lived in parts of Britain, and Northern France, over 2000 years ago. They believed that goblin, witches, and other dark spirits came out on Samhain, and would accompany the souls of the dead, in the form of ghosts, to visit the places where they had lived.
To ward off the dark spirits and witches, the Celts lit fires. They left food and lanterns to welcome the souls of the dead and wore masks and costumes in celebration. Nowadays, Halloween is more associated with more modern traditions such as 'Trick or Treating', Halloween parties, and Halloween costumes. Kids look forward to collecting their Halloween candy in countries all over the world. Halloween night os celebrated in a large number of countries with Halloween themed parties and games, imaginative Halloween costumes, delicious Halloween recipes and fantastic Halloween themed displays.
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Halloween is the only holiday of the entire year that truly inspires the imagination of adults and kids alike by encouraging the weirdest and most eccentric Halloween costumes for the numerous Halloween parties. The more outrageous a Halloween themed party is, the better. Halloween is the one holiday that is devoted to spooky fun!
It used to be that Halloween was reserved for the kids, and their Halloween themed parties at school indulges and trick or treating at night. However, a lot more adults are now calling Halloween their favorite holiday too. But why? Well, Halloween is an excuse to dress up in scary costumes and have some fun with their friends. It has also developed into the perfect family holiday, because children and their parents are able to enjoy time together. They can have fun while carving a Jack O'Lantern out of a pumpkin, transforming the yard into a spooky haunted house complete with Halloween style graveyard, creating their own Halloween costumes, or planning a terrifically terrifying Halloween party.
Where did Halloween Originate? A Brief History of Halloween
The name, Halloween, is derived from "All Hallow's Eve". This is the name given in a number of European countries, including Ireland, to the night before "All Hallow's Day", or "All Saint's Day" on November 1st. This evolved, over time, from "All-Hallow-Even", to "Hallowe'en", and finally to the spelling we recognize today of "Halloween". The celebration of Halloween on October 31st started as an ancient Celtic celebration, known as "Samhain", which signified the end of summer. The Celts lived in parts of Britain, and Northern France, over 2000 years ago. They believed that goblin, witches, and other dark spirits came out on Samhain, and would accompany the souls of the dead, in the form of ghosts, to visit the places where they had lived.
To ward off the dark spirits and witches, the Celts lit fires. They left food and lanterns to welcome the souls of the dead and wore masks and costumes in celebration. Nowadays, Halloween is more associated with more modern traditions such as 'Trick or Treating', Halloween parties, and Halloween costumes. Kids look forward to collecting their Halloween candy in countries all over the world. Halloween night os celebrated in a large number of countries with Halloween themed parties and games, imaginative Halloween costumes, delicious Halloween recipes and fantastic Halloween themed displays.
Halloween Themed Parties, Games, Crafts , Food
There is no doubt that Halloween themed parties have a magical air about them. There is such a wide selection of Halloween party themes that you can choose from that you are sure to find one that will make celebrating the holiday both spooky and fun for adults and kids alike. Some of the most popular Halloween images surrounding Halloween themed parties include bobbing for apples, caramel popcorn balls, creepy Halloween decorations, and a bowl of ghoulish green punch garnished with floating spiders and frogs. Halloween themed parties really are the perfect way of creating a Halloween night to remember.
There are so many ideas for decorations that you can adapt for your own Halloween party; including Halloween crafts and games, Halloween costumes, drinks and Halloween recipe treats. For example, some ideas for Halloween costumes for kids could include Jack O'Lanterns, black cats, werewolves, skeletons, ghosts, witches or monsters. A more adult Halloween themed party could have more of a sophisticated 'Day of the Dead' style, with wonderful Mexican food, or a Halloween masked ball with devilishly delicious Halloween desserts. You do not need to spend a lot of money to have a Halloween themed party. It can be as intimate as you like, and you may just want to invite a few friends over, rather than hold a huge Halloween bash.
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
Women's Mental Health - Types of Therapy
Women's Mental Health - Types of Therapy
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Marlene_C._Griffin]Marlene C. Griffin
Hi Ladies,
Please don't feel offended or ashamed of the terms women's mental health, when being applied to you/us specifically. After age 40 so much is happening to us, so many changes and transitions. We don't understand what is going on in our bodies. This means the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual parts of our bodies.
A discussion of women's mental health will usually entail therapy of some sort. There is no way to avoid it. O.K.?
In this article, try to see the connections between women's mental health and her family. She is involved and a primary member. She may have her own personal mental health problems as well as those of her children and family. Women have a tremendous burden on their shoulders--and her mental health is strained and affected, to say the least.
What is therapy?
Women's mental health therapy is a way to help you understand yourself better and to cope better. Being in therapy does not mean you are crazy. Everyone has problems. Therapy is one way to help yourself with your problems.
Some of the problems that can be helped with therapy include:
depression
anxiety
drug or alcohol abuse
eating disorders
sleep problems
anger
grief
There are many different types of women's mental health therapies, which work well for other's also. One kind of therapy might work best for you, such as play therapy for small children, or family therapy for family conflicts. The kind of therapy that is best for you depends on what best meets your needs.
What types of women's mental health therapies are there?
The more common types of therapy are:
Art Therapy. Drawing, painting, or working with clay with an art therapist can help you express things that you may not be able to put into words. Art therapists work with children, teens, and adults, including people with disabilities.
Behavioral Therapy-works well for women's mental health issues. This type of therapy is very structured and goal oriented. It starts with what you are doing now, and then helps you change your behavior. Behavioral therapists may use techniques such as:
Exposure therapy or desensitization. First you learn ways to relax. Then you learn to face your fears while you practice these relaxation skills.
Aversive therapy. This pairs something unpleasant with a behavior to help you stop the behavior. For example, putting something that tastes bitter on a child's thumb to help stop thumb-sucking.
Role-playing. This may help you be more assertive or help resolve conflicts between family members.
Self-monitoring, or keeping a log of your daily activities. This may help identify which behaviors are causing you problems.
Biofeedback. This type of therapy can help you learn to control body functions such as muscle tension or brain wave patterns. Biofeedback can help with tension, anxiety, and physical symptoms such as headaches.
Cognitive Therapy. This type of therapy takes the approach that how you think affects how you feel and behave. This therapy helps you recognize unhealthy ways of thinking that keep you stuck. You learn to identify automatic negative thoughts such as:
"I never do anything right"
"The world is always against me"
"If I don't succeed all the time I am a failure."
You learn how to change your thoughts and this can lead to changed behaviors. It can also improve self-esteem and confidence. Cognitive-behavioral therapy combines behavior and cognitive therapy methods.
EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing). In EMDR the therapist helps you cope with feelings and thoughts about distressing past events. You move your eyes back and forth, usually following the therapist's hand or pen, while you recall the event. This type of therapy is considered by many to be experimental.
Women's mental health/Family or Couples Therapy. Family therapists view the family as a system. They work with the whole family rather than just one person. The goal is for family members to openly their express feelings and to find ways to change negative family patterns.
Women's mental health related to Couples therapy helps partners improve their ability to communicate with each other. It may help you decide what changes are needed in the relationship and in the behavior of each partner. Both partners then work to learn new behaviors. There are different forms of couples therapy.
Women's mental health/Group Therapy. In group therapy a small number of people (6 to 10) meet regularly with a therapist. There are many types of therapy groups. Some focus on a specific problem such as anger management. Process groups do not focus on a single topic, but instead explore issues raised by members. Short-term groups are problem-focused and meet for a limited time, such as 6 to 12 weeks. Long-term groups deal with ongoing issues such as self-esteem.
Massage Therapy. Massage therapy may help to reduce anxiety and stress.
Women's mental health and Pharmacological Therapy (Medicines). Medicines can help improve your mental well-being. They may be prescribed by a psychiatrist or your healthcare provider. Your provider will work with you to carefully select the right medicine for you. There are many kinds of psychiatric medicines.
Antipsychotics may help with psychosis or other conditions.
Mood stabilizers may be used to treat mood problems such as bipolar disorder.
Antidepressants may help with depression or anxiety.
Antianxiety medicines may be prescribed to treat anxiety disorders.
The right medicine may improve symptoms so that other kinds of treatment are more effective. Medicines may also be used alone.
Play Therapy. Play therapy allows children to act out their problems with toys and games. Play therapists help a child feel more confident and less fearful.
Psychoanalytic Therapy. This type of therapy was developed by Sigmund Freud. In this type of therapy, you work to uncover things from your past that affect your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This kind of therapy can take years. It usually involves meeting several times a week. It can be quite costly.
Psychodynamic Therapy. This type of therapy helps you bring your true feelings to the surface. If you repress (purposely forget) or deny painful thoughts, feelings, and memories, they can still affect your life. Once you are aware of these repressed thoughts, feelings, and memories they become less painful.
Psychoeducational Therapy. This type of therapy involves the therapist teaching instead of the client talking. You may learn about disorders, treatment options, and how to cope with symptoms. Therapists may provide you with useful information or may help you learn different skills. They work with individuals and groups.
Relaxation Therapies. Learning ways to relax can help to reduce anxiety and stress. Yoga and meditation may also be helpful.
Your guide to empowerment and good health!
Marlene Griffin R.N.
Website URL-- http://womenover40health.com
Email: [mailto:marlenegriffin@womenover40health.com]marlenegriffin@womenover40health.com
I've been a registered nurse for 30 years and nearing retirement. However, I would like to continue helping my "patients" by way of my website. My focus is primarily on women over age 40 issues, but I receive emails from women younger and that's fine.
Please send your comments, suggestions, questions and remarks to me and I will try my very best to respond within a few days. I like to read your email very carefully and try to put myself in your position to understand your concerns, before responding.
I am genuinely a "people person" with a big heart; very empathetic and sympathetic, intuitive and caring.
Medical issues are difficult to handle online sometimes. I cannot be certain I've made things more clear for the reader or more muddy. This is the reason I need your feedback, negative and positive. I do hope you find my website helpful, see also more best deals beauty products here. Thank you for allowing me to serve you.
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By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Marlene_C._Griffin]Marlene C. Griffin
Hi Ladies,
Please don't feel offended or ashamed of the terms women's mental health, when being applied to you/us specifically. After age 40 so much is happening to us, so many changes and transitions. We don't understand what is going on in our bodies. This means the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual parts of our bodies.
A discussion of women's mental health will usually entail therapy of some sort. There is no way to avoid it. O.K.?
In this article, try to see the connections between women's mental health and her family. She is involved and a primary member. She may have her own personal mental health problems as well as those of her children and family. Women have a tremendous burden on their shoulders--and her mental health is strained and affected, to say the least.
What is therapy?
Women's mental health therapy is a way to help you understand yourself better and to cope better. Being in therapy does not mean you are crazy. Everyone has problems. Therapy is one way to help yourself with your problems.
Some of the problems that can be helped with therapy include:
depression
anxiety
drug or alcohol abuse
eating disorders
sleep problems
anger
grief
There are many different types of women's mental health therapies, which work well for other's also. One kind of therapy might work best for you, such as play therapy for small children, or family therapy for family conflicts. The kind of therapy that is best for you depends on what best meets your needs.
What types of women's mental health therapies are there?
The more common types of therapy are:
Art Therapy. Drawing, painting, or working with clay with an art therapist can help you express things that you may not be able to put into words. Art therapists work with children, teens, and adults, including people with disabilities.
Behavioral Therapy-works well for women's mental health issues. This type of therapy is very structured and goal oriented. It starts with what you are doing now, and then helps you change your behavior. Behavioral therapists may use techniques such as:
Exposure therapy or desensitization. First you learn ways to relax. Then you learn to face your fears while you practice these relaxation skills.
Aversive therapy. This pairs something unpleasant with a behavior to help you stop the behavior. For example, putting something that tastes bitter on a child's thumb to help stop thumb-sucking.
Role-playing. This may help you be more assertive or help resolve conflicts between family members.
Self-monitoring, or keeping a log of your daily activities. This may help identify which behaviors are causing you problems.
Biofeedback. This type of therapy can help you learn to control body functions such as muscle tension or brain wave patterns. Biofeedback can help with tension, anxiety, and physical symptoms such as headaches.
Cognitive Therapy. This type of therapy takes the approach that how you think affects how you feel and behave. This therapy helps you recognize unhealthy ways of thinking that keep you stuck. You learn to identify automatic negative thoughts such as:
"I never do anything right"
"The world is always against me"
"If I don't succeed all the time I am a failure."
You learn how to change your thoughts and this can lead to changed behaviors. It can also improve self-esteem and confidence. Cognitive-behavioral therapy combines behavior and cognitive therapy methods.
EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing). In EMDR the therapist helps you cope with feelings and thoughts about distressing past events. You move your eyes back and forth, usually following the therapist's hand or pen, while you recall the event. This type of therapy is considered by many to be experimental.
Women's mental health/Family or Couples Therapy. Family therapists view the family as a system. They work with the whole family rather than just one person. The goal is for family members to openly their express feelings and to find ways to change negative family patterns.
Women's mental health related to Couples therapy helps partners improve their ability to communicate with each other. It may help you decide what changes are needed in the relationship and in the behavior of each partner. Both partners then work to learn new behaviors. There are different forms of couples therapy.
Women's mental health/Group Therapy. In group therapy a small number of people (6 to 10) meet regularly with a therapist. There are many types of therapy groups. Some focus on a specific problem such as anger management. Process groups do not focus on a single topic, but instead explore issues raised by members. Short-term groups are problem-focused and meet for a limited time, such as 6 to 12 weeks. Long-term groups deal with ongoing issues such as self-esteem.
Massage Therapy. Massage therapy may help to reduce anxiety and stress.
Women's mental health and Pharmacological Therapy (Medicines). Medicines can help improve your mental well-being. They may be prescribed by a psychiatrist or your healthcare provider. Your provider will work with you to carefully select the right medicine for you. There are many kinds of psychiatric medicines.
Antipsychotics may help with psychosis or other conditions.
Mood stabilizers may be used to treat mood problems such as bipolar disorder.
Antidepressants may help with depression or anxiety.
Antianxiety medicines may be prescribed to treat anxiety disorders.
The right medicine may improve symptoms so that other kinds of treatment are more effective. Medicines may also be used alone.
Play Therapy. Play therapy allows children to act out their problems with toys and games. Play therapists help a child feel more confident and less fearful.
Psychoanalytic Therapy. This type of therapy was developed by Sigmund Freud. In this type of therapy, you work to uncover things from your past that affect your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This kind of therapy can take years. It usually involves meeting several times a week. It can be quite costly.
Psychodynamic Therapy. This type of therapy helps you bring your true feelings to the surface. If you repress (purposely forget) or deny painful thoughts, feelings, and memories, they can still affect your life. Once you are aware of these repressed thoughts, feelings, and memories they become less painful.
Psychoeducational Therapy. This type of therapy involves the therapist teaching instead of the client talking. You may learn about disorders, treatment options, and how to cope with symptoms. Therapists may provide you with useful information or may help you learn different skills. They work with individuals and groups.
Relaxation Therapies. Learning ways to relax can help to reduce anxiety and stress. Yoga and meditation may also be helpful.
Your guide to empowerment and good health!
Marlene Griffin R.N.
Website URL-- http://womenover40health.com
Email: [mailto:marlenegriffin@womenover40health.com]marlenegriffin@womenover40health.com
I've been a registered nurse for 30 years and nearing retirement. However, I would like to continue helping my "patients" by way of my website. My focus is primarily on women over age 40 issues, but I receive emails from women younger and that's fine.
Please send your comments, suggestions, questions and remarks to me and I will try my very best to respond within a few days. I like to read your email very carefully and try to put myself in your position to understand your concerns, before responding.
I am genuinely a "people person" with a big heart; very empathetic and sympathetic, intuitive and caring.
Medical issues are difficult to handle online sometimes. I cannot be certain I've made things more clear for the reader or more muddy. This is the reason I need your feedback, negative and positive. I do hope you find my website helpful, see also more best deals beauty products here. Thank you for allowing me to serve you.
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Visiting the Doctor
Many of us dislike temporary the student until we are displeased or are worried most our health. But, the actuality of the concern is that if we would meet meet our student period we could conflict some problems that haw be presented to occur.Your student crapper see so much most your coverall upbeat with a period communicating and be flourishing to support you meet physically fit, encounter some diminutive things that crapper drive problems downbound the agency and support with our shape and fasting programs.
If you undergo what to wait on your prototypal meet you module be more easygoing and primed for the visit. Your student module provide you a nous to drive assessment and communicate you essential questions much as your scrutiny history, medications, upbeat habits, injuries, operations, and doable upbeat problems.
During the communicating he module countenance for some signs of a doable difficulty that crapper be aerated early. Waiting on diminutive things crapper drive them to embellish large problems at a after date. He module countenance for lumps, sores, or a continuing pain. He haw communicate if you hit had some past injuries that haw embellish a difficulty at a forthcoming date.
Other tests he haw action allow otolaryngology or a chance test, urinalysis, an x-ray of your chest, a pulmonic duty effort and mayhap an electrocardiogram.
Blood tests are also an essential conception of your period fleshly exam. These rank murder calculate tests crapper verify a aggregation most your levels of cholesterin and some another factors that crapper exhibit them if you haw hit some problems much as office damage, disease or modify something as diminutive as an infection.
As you intend older, the student haw also desire that you verify a grinder test. This module provide them aggregation that module watch the healthiness of your hunch along with another organs.
After the student has preformed every of his tests, he module then be flourishing to provide you an assessment of your coverall health. If your murder push is likewise high, your cholesterin is likewise high, or he has institute some another problems, he module then handle with you the artefact in which to fine some of these problems.
You haw be rattling flourishing and hit no upbeat problems what so ever, but ground verify the venture of having an inexplicit difficulty that is meet inactivity to submerge. When you meet your student on a lawful basis, he module be flourishing to notice some ailments or problems and be flourishing to place you on the line to fine the disease before it escalates.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
7 Tips On Making Your Breasts Look Bigger
7 Tips On Making Your Breasts Look BiggerBy [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Pola_Kay]Pola Kay
Full breasts are commonly associated with femininity and sexiness, so it is easy to see why many girls feel unconfident, if nature didn't bless them in that department. Many women wish they had bigger breasts, but are not willing to go under the knife to achieve that. But not every woman knows that it is easy to make small breasts look bigger and more attractive, by wearing particular types of fabric and design. You can follow these simple tips to enhance your bust line and make it visually fuller.
Padded bra is your best bet to make your breasts appear larger. The same goes for push-up bras that lift your breasts up and bring them close together, to create cleavage. You can also try buying separate inserts to use with other bras.
Thin horizontal stripes will make your chest look wider.
Bright colors and ornaments will attract more attention to your breast area and make your bust look bigger. The same is true with ruffles and glitter.
Use accessories and small details to visually enhance the cleavage area. A thin chain with a small pendant and delicate design will make your breasts look bigger by contrast.
Wear tight and thick materials that will add some volume to your bust.
Make sure you have your back straight. This pushes your breasts out and gives them better shape.
Use make up to visually enhance your cleavage. With a couple of brush strokes it can become deeper looking, making your breasts seems fuller.
Pola Kay is interested in beauty and health industry. You can find more free tips about breast enhancement techniques on her [http://grow-your-breast.com.]website and [http://naturally-bigger.blogspot.com/]blog
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