When Your Husband Has to Hide the Belts

If you had any doubt that having bipolar disorder (manic depression) is extremely difficult, check out this heartbreaking post from Marissa Miller at Depression Introspection.

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New Office

I’ve just opened a new office. A fruitful and pleasant post-doc with Rose City Counseling Center has ended, and I’ve just completed my second week in private practice. The new office is in a beautiful old building near Old Town Pasadena, off Colorado, between the Paseo and Vroman’s. Here’s my new information:
Kalea Chapman, Psy.D.
16 S. [...]

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Senior Care: Profit or Non-Profit?

Here’s an excerpt (courtesy of Ken Pope) from an article in U.S.A. Today. In brief, the finding is that for-profit elder care facilities deliver inferior care. The article includes a tool that enables you to find the specific rating of a given nursing home.
An analysis of nearly 16,000 nursing homes reveals for-profit homes are more [...]

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Strict, Lax, or Flexible Parenting Styles?

Popular, popular, popular. For some reason, this is consistently the most popular post on this blog.  I guess there are a lot of parents out there with questions. Perhaps it’s that parents, lacking a clear sense of what is the “right” way to parent, turn to books. Unfortunately parenting books so often tell you that there [...]

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