We all know about school cliques and how painful they can be to children. However, many of us don’t realize the power cliques wield in our adult lives. Here is how adults can move past feelings of exclusion.

Most daily stressors gnaw at the root of self-esteem. Filling your thoughts with perceived enemies and old conflicts drains your spirit and saps your creative joy. Here is how to take the first steps towards boosting your self-confidence. The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Children extend our identities and so we bask in their accomplishments. Here are some suggestions to give your child a successful head start in a competitive, stressful world and as a result make you both happier.

Even those of us who complained that we didn’t have much of a summer, are now sorry that summer is almost over! Here’s how to ease into the next season:

The school year presents an opportunity for a fresh start. Instead, in many households anxiety, stress and even sadness reign. Here are some suggestions to take the stress out of school as you help your children build up self-esteem.

Here are some de-stressing strategies that help us in our journeys. Fortunately, these concrete skills can be transferred to daily living.

We expend a great deal of energy feeling angry. However, who are we really angry at? In order to overcome anger we have to address the source. Here are some suggestions:

We choose our friends, or they choose us, but family is a hand-me-down. How do we handle family members who are negative, critical, unfeeling and domineering?

During the course of our lives others erode us, criticize us and make demands on us, including parents, teachers and friends. The source of all health and happiness is a good self-concept. Here´s how:

The benefits of meditation in stress management can be demonstrated on PET scans.Yet many of us, including myself, initially resist the idea of meditation or view it as an impossible dream. Here is how I learned to enjoy meditating.