Running on Empty – Child Obesity and FII

Recent reports from the United Kingdom reveal hundreds of toddlers under three hospitalized with obesity. During the past five years forty babies under one were admitted to hospital for childhood obesity, with children obese, as young as six, suffering from strokes. Children under one have weighed as much as 19 kilos. The diets that these children are on are not nutritious or healthy – food includes pureed...

Routines, Habits and Addiction

Routines, habits and addiction are all behaviors that we continue to use because of a perception that the chosen behavior is beneficial to us. From birth we absorb from our environment much information about routines from the lifestyle of our parents. At first dependent, we discover patterns in the environment upon which we can rely and so learn to create routines and schedules that satisfy our needs. Our natural...

Effective Communication: Addiction Recovery.

Effective communication can assist people with addiction to drugs and alcohol to make complete addiction recovery. With  effective communication,  the addict is enabled to make a transition between drug dependence and being drug free.  Providing effective communication is an intervention and drug users can be taught effective communication by comprehensive drug rehab programs.   When drug use is involved,...

Answers: Meditation and Relaxation

For any kind of physical or emotional pain, for substance abuse, and addictions, the benefits of meditation practice and relaxation have been known about for centuries. There are many types of meditation, which involves a cutting off from the mundane world into a state of deep relaxation.  Anyone who takes up the practice of meditation will find that unless one is deep in sleep, and effectively unconscious,...

Forgiveness, Healing and Addiction Recovery

Forgiveness is said to be a precondition for healing emotional pain and full addiction recovery.  People struggle with the problem of forgiveness, and whether or not it ought to be, can be or should be “given” to another in circumstances where that person has caused them grief. People also wonder when they feel guilty how they can forgive themselves.  When we suffer injury that we see as not being our...