Your Friend Needs Advice
USE CAUTION AND SENSITIVITY
By Jacqui Brandwynne
It happened before. Your friend has been complaining about transgressions and hurtful misdeeds on the part of a married or unmarried partner. This time your friend seems exceptionally upset.
“I really need your advice now!”
Giving advice is a sensitive matter. It means putting yourself in your friend’s situation without being aware [...]
This year… give yourself the gift of health
By Jacqui Brandwynne
Well, you can. The cost can be as low as zero dollars depending on the exercise you choose. What is required, however, is your time and your commitment to do it and stick with it if you care about yourself. “Nothing can reduce health risks like exercise, your risk against obesity, diabetes, heart [...]
Are you losing your crowning glory?
THOUGHTS ON HAIR LOSS
By Jacqui Brandwynne
Hair, one of the most treasured feminine assets, does not suddenly disappear overnight. But hair loss, unfortunately, is quite a common problem. Hair thinning is usually inherited from either your mother’s or father’s side. Before menopause, 13% of women experience the condition.
After menopause, hair thinning affects 37%of females. Hair begins [...]
Alone doesn’t have to be Lonely
By Jacqui Brandwynne
Over 23 million people in the U.S. live alone. Some of them have made a choice to be alone and are quite happy and fulfilled and feel complete without a partner. Others sense a profound loneliness, unable to have the opportunity to share their activities, their every day, their joys, their sorrows, [...]
Go with the Heart
By Jacqui Brandwynne
“We had a really good partnership for more than thirteen years,” said Peter about his second marriage, “but it all went awry when my wife went through an endless midlife crisis.” Two years later they were divorced. Now in his sixties, Peter reduced his consulting work, took time out for travel and explored [...]
Heart Versus Brain
WHICH MAKES THE LOVE CONNECTION?
By Jacqui Brandwynne
”My heart literally melted when I first met him,” swoons one newly-in-love woman. A man who has recently fallen under the love spell says, “We met and we clicked. I knew we would be soul-mates for life.”
THE LOVE BRAIN
Usually we ascribe the glorious feelings to the workings of our [...]
Can Hormones make Us more Trusting?
BUILDING TRUST BASED ON INTERACTIONS
By Jacqui Brandwynne
Trust is a fundamental requirement in friendship and love; it is also an underlying essential to commercial interaction between trading partners and equally important in the relationships among nations. Trust permeates our daily lives and regulates our decision-making.
New research published in the latest science journal Nature reports on a [...]
Jealousy
Jealousy
WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO OVERCOME IT
By Jacqui Brandwynne
Most everybody has felt jealousy at one time or another. Sometimes the feeling is justified, often it is not. Ultimately jealousy is based on fear: fear of abandonment, fear of losing one’s love, fear of being embarrassed or shamed in front of our friends or community. [...]
Why keeping it off is a struggle
Why keeping it off is a struggle
By Jacqui Brandwynne
The latest research confirms that only 5 to 10% of all dieters are able to lose it and keep it off. Most dieters are weary of the weight loss battles. Having invested in various “scientific” theories, embraced the advice of the latest diet guru, enrolled in weight [...]
When Love Meets Money
When Love Meets Money
By Jacqui Brandwynne
Statistics say that money issues are the number one reason why couples argue. It is also the prime cause in over 90% of all divorces. And most psychologists agree that it is the one subject that couples prefer not to discuss.
WHAT DOES MONEY MEAN TO YOU?
If you’re about to move [...]
