In these troubling times many of us are not sleeping well.The best remedy is stress-reduction, letting things slide. There are concrete steps we can all take to improve our sleep. Here´s how:

Are you making your life impossible? When relationships or work are not going your way, try to go with the flow. Here´s how.

Just the word, mother-in-law, fills the heart with trepidation and self-doubt. This woman has assumed mythic proportions wielding criticism, guilt and coldness. Recognize the premise underlying the relationship - two women in love with the same man. Here's how to befriend your mother-in-law.

The secret to happiness and serenity is balancing our two brains: the emotional and rational. During conflict the two brains are likely to be out of balance. Here are some steps to express your emotions and get what you want without the spiritual cost of confrontation.

We live in a fast-paced technological age which has made it possible to get immediate gratification 24/7. We compete with the rich and the famous, believing the myth that one can never be too rich, too famous, too beautiful, or too thin. Here’s how to achieve contentment:

As we get older, we find that we have fewer friends. Not because they have died, but because we have let them die in our hearts. We don’t invest the effort, the personal attention, friends require. Friendship requires honest, assertive - but not aggressive- communication. Here’s how to communicate.

Worries, ambiguities and doubts whirl around in our brains. The byproducts of a feverish mind are an inability to concentrate and accomplish.The way to break this cycle is to empty the mind of negative thoughts and feel our way around our world with our senses.Here are some suggestions.

It seems like everyone is lining up waiting to be taken care of by Super Mom: husband, children, aging parents and the boss! The result - panic attacks, anxiety and depression. Here are some suggestions to shed the myth of perfection and the accompanying stress.

We all dream about daily concerns, fears, desires and occurrences in the form of a jigsaw puzzle, or a surrealistic movie.By remembering our dreams we will have a more direct access to our personalities - our secret desires and the ability to heal from stress.

When someone is mildly depressed, the first remedy that comes to mind is exercise. Ironically, the depressed person who needs to exercise most is not likely to exercise. Here are some suggestions to begin exercising when you are depressed and feel that you don’t have the energy to do it.