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5 Ways Friendships Improve Your Health

Stress relief. When things get crazy, you might feel far too busy to schedule that brunch. But when youre slammed, thats actually when you need your friends the most: the laughter, distraction, and catharsis that they can provide are among the best medicine there is.

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Don’t Lump My Son In With Mass Murderers

Another mass shooting. This time, in my own backyard. I can be in Santa Barbara in under two hours. I have a writers retreat there in June. It?s gorgeous, idyllic, peaceful, and a college town. With mass shootings on our minds yet again, families with people on the autism spectrum are again having to ask the general population to not label our kids. Here?s an example (post-the latest shooting): One headline in particular angered me …

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Finding Relief From Pelvic Pain

The following is part 1 in a three-part series onfinding relief from pelvic pain through physical therapy, yoga, and other complementary therapies.Question from Kate, a mother of two boys, ages 5 and 7:”I have pelvic pain due to a non-relaxing pelvic floor. I cannot even sit down without pain. I am already doing pelvic physical therapy and have had multiple therapies (see below). What can yoga do to help me find relief …

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Help! My Sleepless Toddler Is Breaking Me!

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. – Ralph Waldo EmersonI thought I had it down. Both my babies had been such perfect textbook sleepers, Harvey Karp would have been proud. Swaddle and soothe worked like a charm, as if Sleeping Beauty herself watched over their dreams.But now its payback. My children have become insomniac toddlers. Relentless. Or as my pediatrician calls it …