Christmas holidays can be the best of times or the worst of times. For many, it’s both—a season of great food, family, and gifts mixed with enough stress to push you right over the edge. Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays tend to magnify both the blessings and the problems in our lives....
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Dawson
on 12-03-2010
Tags: Divorce, Parents, Step-Parents, Parenthood, Christmas, Holiday, Separation, stress
Last weekend Jodie Foster (not the actress), her 12-year old daughter, Kayla, and her two step children stood in the middle of LP field during the second quarter of the Tennessee Titans – Washington Redskins game. They thought they were being honored for a winning essay they had all written together...
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on 11-24-2010
Tags: Military, Love Addiction, Relationships, Opposite Sex, Boyfriend, Girlfriend, Military Relationships, stress
The new school year always brings with it plenty of new challenges. Especially if you’re starting off at a new school, some of these challenges can be pretty huge and scary. Shawn wrote the feelings of millions of students: “I don’t really like school to begin with, but the beginning...
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Dawson
on 08-27-2010
Tags: friends, School, Studying, Slacking, Homework, Class, How to, stress
"When you're honest, you don't feel so lost all the time.” The deeper we have gone into the subject of lying, the more we see how much pain and stress it causes everyone involved. Sadly, all of us have been affected by lying, whether our own or someone else’s. I’ve been...
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Dawson
on 09-18-2009
Tags: Forgiveness, Trust, Lying, Blog Series: Lying, stress