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Are You Considering Changing How You Host or Celebrate the Holidays?
Times they are a’changin’ and perhaps nothing more so than holiday traditions. Suzi Hoge takes a look at the evolution and offers solutions. Read this article to help you decide what you are going to do for Thanksgiving – or any holiday – this year.
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Gender Fluidity and the Terms That Go With It
Confused by all the gender issues and the wording surrounding it?
This presentation is a general orientation to give you the basics about what it all means and how it’s still evolving. Presented by Eugenia Rodriguez, a member of Pacific Oaks College Administrative Faculty and Coordinator of LGBTQIA+ and LatinX Family Studies Programs.
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Forgiveness
Dr. Richard Lyon discusses forgiveness. Learning to forgive is more than a moral mandate. Forgiveness can liberate us from false hopes and corrosive resentments, and thereby improve our emotional, physical, and relational well-being. The concept of forgiveness can be easy to understand, but difficult to implement. This presentation offers a notion of forgiveness that affirms both the need for grieving and for justice, and explains how forgiveness is usually more therapeutic for the “forgiver” than the “forgiven.” Forgiveness will be described as a process that is informed by insights from Psychoanalytic, Family Systems, and Cognitive/Behavioral Theories.
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Gratitude Might Be a Cure-All
Karen Whitmore is a retired registered nurse with a degree in holistic health nursing. During her career she worked as a Public Health nurse and a school nurse. Studies have shown that feeling thankful can improve sleep, mood and immunity. Gratitude can decrease depression, anxiety, difficulties with chronic pain and risk of disease. Learn how Karen’s regular practice of “gratitude” not only helps her maintain a positive attitude, but improves her health. Then consider trying it yourself, and see how it works.
https://www.pasadenavillage.org/blog_posts/359-gratitude—its-good-for-you!
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The Power of Touch
Terry Chamorro explores the science of physical contact, and what effects touch has on human relationships.
https://pasadena.helpfulvillage.com/blog_posts/505-the-power-of-touch
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Grief is a Journey: Two Paths Taken
Someone once said, “Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” Chances are we have all experienced grief in some form. Ed Rinderle is finding his ‘cure’ through a program called GriefShare. Sally Asmundson took a different approach, using a variety of resources. Here are their stories.
https://pasadena.helpfulvillage.com/blog_posts/627-grief-is-a-journey:-two-paths-taken