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Thriving After Divorce announced as winner in the Self Help: Relationship category of the “Best Books 2010” Awards, sponsored by USA Book News

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Thriving After Divorce awarded second place in 2010 self-help books by Premier Book Awards!

Living Now Awards gives Thriving After Divorce a bronze metal in the category Relationships/Marriage.

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Do You Have Social Anxiety?

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Thursday, 10 May 2012 10:30

Do you hate to go out to parties or any kind of event where you have to stand around and meet people and you just—gulp—don’t know what to say? Does the idea of making small talk in a group setting sound worse than being caught center stage in the spotlight when you’ve forgotten your lines?

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Difficult People

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Monday, 30 April 2012 15:22

Do you have someone in your life that is hard to get along with?  Does this person have a particular knack for getting you upset by dismissing your opinion, treating you like you are invisible, needing to be the center of the attention, acting with an air of entitlement, having control issues, or, needing to always be “right”?  Or maybe…they’re just plain mean?

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The Power of Love

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Sunday, 22 April 2012 22:20

Silence may be golden, but mine was not of that variety.  It was more of the enamel and metal genre, as in an upper tooth that had been crowned and then recently fractured, needing a root canal.  My silence was the kind that quickly descended upon me and then settled in for what felt like an Arctic night lasting longer than 12 hours.  I missed the impulse to smile about anything.  There was just this aching jaw.

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Repetitive Words for Singles

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Monday, 16 April 2012 04:38

Certain words and phrases come up over and over among singles.  Maybe you’ve heard yourself say some of the ones below once in a while.  It’s easy to get tangled in our thoughts, our words, and then the actions that follow.  For instance:

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Thoughts on Love After 45: "Shadows"

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Monday, 09 April 2012 14:14

When you meet the love of your life and you’re over 45, your heart beats to several dominant truths:
* You probably won’t have children together,
* You definitely won’t celebrate your 75th wedding anniversary,
* You will probably never be seen as first-daughter-in-law-/son-in-law, first love, first crush, first family, first significant anything together, and
* You probably will have to sprout wings and learn to fly over and around and through everyone’s notions of who you once were and who you are supposed to be now in the scheme of this person’s life.

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