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In our family, discussing our own failures greases the machine. We all know that change is naturally stressful for everyone involved. It's an out-of-body kind of experience, like the dissociative episodes. Recently, we interviewed a really interesting person named Chris Barrett. Of course, Fitzroy had that one Achilles' heel, didn't …

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But there is information that comes out of well-done association studies that can be useful, and I believe there are things that affect our health and longevity that we can't yet measure, so the jury is still out on many of the innovative ideas being tested. He tried various ways …

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During a short rest period, Joe left the room for a couple of minutes and returned with two bottles of Coca-Cola, one for the subject and one for himself, saying "I asked him [the experimenter] if I could get myself a Coke, and he said it was OK, so I …

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If you feel more comfortable and more peaceful, then that is great, but if you do not, that is ok as well because you are still getting used to the process. Sometimes a person's trespass is so harmful or severe that continuing the relationship is impossible or inadvisable. In a …

If we practice death daily, we can put into motion all that we've practiced when the time comes. If we don't work hard to replace them, we'll risk a relapse whenever we compare upwards. That morning, before his attack, Luther told his friends that he wrestled with a grave spiritual …

Jacob is having trouble solving the mathematical problem in class today. Some of the suggestions will resonate, others won't, and that's fine. He didn't act like he owed people extensive explanations about his choice, but he also didn't mind talking about it, and he didn't make inquirers feel stupid or …