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How to get really M.A.D. to make a difference? by Dwight Bain Are you facing an incredibly difficult time in your life right now? If so, know that you are not alone, even though it may feel like it. During the painful times of life it is easy to get mad at what is going on around you, and it is normal when you feel hurt to lash out in anger, literally to pass on the pain to others....

My 2 Cents A person's motive for accomplishment, or intention for success, determines the ability to understand what they do and why they receive the results they do. Being in harmony with intention is the making or breaking point to any success. The level at which a person is in line with intention can be personally measured through physiological states and emotions. In other words, your...

Our country’s second day of Infamy occurred on September 11th, 2001. The first one, so labeled by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, occurred on December 7, 1941 – seventy years ago this year. That is the day when Japan attacked our fleet at Pearl Harbor which led to the start of WW II. As a result of that attack, the United States lost eight battleships, innumerable aircraft and over 2,400...

Fat Kids Feeling Pain: Looking inside childhood obesity by Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach I KNOW ABOUT THIS SUBJECT DIRECTLY, since during most of my school years I was that fat kid. Teasing and joking about my weight was a daily issue, so I learned to laugh on the outside, and eventually to ignore the pain on the inside. When the discouragement and loneliness...

A recent post by BabyBoomerBev about teen pregnancy started me thinking. In her post, Bev recounts the experience she and her teenage daughter had when her daughter became pregnant, in stark contrast to the experiences of Governer Palin and her pregnant teenage daughter. The main point of Bev's story was about the way a rich, powerful, white family was received and supported by the community as...

Not everyone grieves in the same way. After all, we are different people with different physical appearances, different perspectives, different experiences, different thoughts, different emotions, different backgrounds, and different attitudes. So why when it comes to grief do we believe that there is one correct way to handle the loss of a loved one? There are in fact a number of constructive...