Getting the Mind to Listen to Resolutions
Yoga & meditation can help make your New Year’s pledges stick
Staying healthy requires more than an impulsive New Year’s resolution and a spanking new gym membership. To nix bad habits for good and maintain positive changes to your body in 2012, fitness experts argue that the first and biggest change starts with the mind. Read more
‘Tis the Season for Holiday & Winter Blues
By Laura Shin
While department stores dress up their windows and shoppers search for the perfect gifts, those who work in the mental health profession prepare for the holidays in a different way: making sure New Yorkers stay healthy and happy during the holiday season. Read more
A Sweet & Healthy Holiday Treat
Real benefits to eating dark chocolate—in moderation
It’s that time of year again, when friends and family get together to celebrate the holidays and your diet gets ditched as you indulge in all of the wonderful and fattening treats of the season. But before you despair, there is actually one treat that is good for you: dark chocolate. Read more
Christmas Cocktails Are OK, But Remember the Sober Details
During the holidays, everyone drinks more.
It’s just inevitable, with holiday parties at work, seasonal soirees with friends and multiple family occasions—almost every night is another opportunity to socialize and celebrate, cocktail in hand. Read more
How to Become a Life Coach
Life coaching is a rapidly expanding field, and although there is no legally required course work to declare yourself a life coach, there is a recognized certification organization: the International Coaching Federation. Here are a few Manhattan-based programs to get certification:
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Life Coaching Is Part of Good Psychotherapy
As a unified concept in psychotherapy, life coaching is a recent addition to the field—and many psychotherapists still do not consider life coaching a legitimate part of the psychotherapy process. They see life coaching as a resource for emotionally together people who want to expand themselves in new ways with higher aspirations and psychotherapy as a process of exploring the past with emotionally disturbed people in order to help them understand how dysfunctional early life has negatively impacted them as adults. They see therapists as listening in a non-directive way, allowing clients to come to realizations on their own at their own pace.
Diabetic Top Chef is Living ‘The Sweet Life’
The walls of Sam Talbot’s Lower East Side apartment, which he painted himself, are bright blue and deep purple. He also painted the abstract art that hangs on them, and mismatched potted plants practically overtake his dining room table.
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HIV Work Tied to Caregiver Coalitions
In 2006, the Research on Older Adults with HIV study by the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America looked at the increasing number of senior citizens with HIV/AIDS. When groups around New York got a look at these numbers, many knew it was time for a wake-up call.
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Caring for AIDS Patients as They Age
When many people think of AIDS or HIV, they often picture a younger person, perhaps in their twenties or thirties. But with improving medical technology and treatments that help patients live for much longer, those perceptions are becoming outdated.
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YMCA Has Answers for Those at Risk to Develop Diabetes
By Lisa Elaine Held
Type 2 diabetes runs in Kerry Watterson’s family.
His mother is in a wheelchair with nerve damage in her legs. His paternal grandmother has it. His great-aunt had to have both legs amputated because of the disease.
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