“60 Minutes” goes inside a landmark government study of young minds to see if phones, tablets and other screens are impacting adolescent brain development. Anderson Cooper reports.
“Last week while conducting the third module of The Emotional Eating Course, I was sharing with the participants on the nature of food products today and how they are glorified through creative marketing. (I would know as I used to be a marketing major and worked in the fast-moving consumer goods industry.)
Take for example, Nutella. Some of you may love Nutella. I used to eat a lot of it. Spreading it on bread, licking it with the spoon, consuming it directly from the bottle. As a child, I remember the Nutella mini-packs marketed at kids that cost 20 or 50 cents (those were the times before massive inflation).
But did you know? Nutella is made up of over 70% sugar and palm oil. The largest ingredient is sugar, with more than 56% being sugar. Here is a visual representation of the ingredients in Nutella:
So when you eat Nutella, you’re really eating sugar and oil. If you don’t already know, sugar is a deeply problematic ingredient. Sugar intake has increased sharply over the last 100 years while diabetes-related deaths and diabetes prevalence rates have risen in parallel.
“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
I am certainly not unique in my experience of pain. Like physical scars — of which I have plenty — pain of any kind tends to hang around doing its dirty work until the one suffering takes appropriate action to help dispel it. Granted, some physical pain can only be ameliorated, not eradicated. That’s good enough in some instances, although not ideal. Having gone through numerous instances where I’ve suffered intense physical pain, some of it chronic, as well as emotional pain complicated by other factors, I’ve emerged both wiser and more effective in learning how to let go of pain. I hope you can benefit from what works for me. My 24-hour theory – Everything changes. During the worst and most painful moments of my life, I discovered a secret. I measured the hours and imagined myself and how I’d feel 24 hours hence: I Learned How to Let Go of Pain — You Can, Too
Yes, you can have a successful divorce, says relationship therapist Esther Perel. The first step? Writing goodbye letters to each other: Ending a marriage, with grace and respect
“Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called ‘the love of your fate.’ Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, ‘This is what I need.’ It may look like a wreck but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment–not discouragement–you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.
Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”
Nobody said it was easy to move on after any past relationships, so when my three-year relationship ended, my life fell apart a little. Well, a lot. It If you think there’s any reason to hold on to any past relationships, this article is meant to help understand you definitely DON’T! For your own sake: Past Relationships: 3 Reasons Why You Need to Let Go — Purpose Fairy
I considered not writing on this blog anymore. It’s been less than a year since my divorce, but I feel very much healed, or healed enough, to continue on with my life.
I realize though, that a lot of people are suffering from the pain of divorce. Divorce is such a big shift of identity and self that it’s hard to overcome it quickly and hard to overcome it with little pain.
I wrote some guides to getting over divorce, and I offered plenty of advice. But that’s not to say that everyone is going to recover at the same rate or in the same way as I did.
I think instead I’ll offer you a place where you can listen to the musings of a happily divorced man.
By happy, I think of my former spouse and wish her the best. I smile when I think of her, if…
Ready to make 2019 the Greatest Year of Your Life? Me, too. It’s time to Operationalize Virtue—getting (even more) clarity on what our Optimus selves look like and getting even better at consistently showing up AS that best version of ourselves. In this class, we review why we do what we do together, take a quick trip to hell (yikes!) then to Michelangelo’s studio (yay!) then we get to work sculpting our Energy, Work and Love—taking the time to wrap our souls around our Identity + Virtues + Soul Goals + Algorithms that will drive our Masterpiece Days as we Dare to step thru Fear Doors into all we’re destined to be. Hope you love it and looking forward to LITERALLY making this year the greatest year of your life in an unending string of such awesome years: Greatest Year Ever 2019 (Intro)
Bright, Shiny Objects! 
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