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.

When something bad and painful happens in our lives, many of us ask, “Why me? What did I do to deserve this?" Human beings are beautifully engineered to adapt. Here are some suggestions to balance out stress.

The latest research on depression points to a reduced need for talk therapy with psychologists and drug therapy with psychiatrists. Many counselors feel that mildly depressed people are just plain lonely. Here are some suggestions.

Valentine’s Day can be a painful reminder of what is missing in our lives and might trigger feelings of stress and inadequacy. The solution is to go straight to the heart of the matter:

Why are we women cutting up our faces? Why are we becoming obsessed with our bodies? We need to take back our power! Here are some suggestions to attain internal and eternal beauty:

In order to be of sound mind and sound body, and in equilibrium, we must confront our anger instead of allowing it to distract us with bodily symptoms of aches and pains as we suppress our feelings. Here is how to C.O.P.E.