Early to bed, early to rise… Really?
May 19, 2014 Comments Off on Early to bed, early to rise… Really?

News.com

BAD NEWS FOR EARLY BIRDS
* You’re useless in the arvo. Early birds are up and at ’em before anyone, and are very productive in the morning, but they tend to flame out by the afternoon. Night owls stay alert longer than early risers before losing their mental stamina. So, don’t ask an early bird to do anything that requires sustained attention more than 10 hours after they wake up.

* You’re probably poorer. Although their lifestyle has plenty of drawbacks, night owls tend to be better off financially than their early-rising counterparts.
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Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?
May 14, 2014 Comments Off on Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?

Psychology Today

The human sexual response cycle is thought to have four stages:

Stage 1: Desire, which is defined as having a sexy thought or sexual fantasy that often occurs out of the blue or in response to a trigger such as seeing an attractive person, smelling an aromatic perfume, or watching a hot movie. Desire then prompts us to become sexually active.

Stage 2: Arousal is the excitement we feel, the physiological changes in our bodies once we’re physically stimulated.
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The real cost of a conflicted marriage.
May 10, 2014 Comments Off on The real cost of a conflicted marriage.

Telegraph

The researchers calculated that around 315 extra deaths per 100,000 people per year could be caused by spousal demands and worries, they said.

Stress is known to have physical effects on health, increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke while it also encourages poor habits such as eating junk food and lack of exercise which exacerbates the problem.
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How to make your marriage work.
May 8, 2014 Comments Off on How to make your marriage work.

Zen Habits

Most disputes and other conversations are about two things: do you care about me, and can I trust you. When you argue about putting the toilet seat down or whether we should go to the in-laws’ for Thanksgiving, it’s only partly about those actual things. What it’s really about is this: I care about the toilet seat (or going to my parents’ house for dinner), so can you show me you care about what I care about?
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What correlates with sexual health?
May 6, 2014 3 Comments on What correlates with sexual health?

Rodale News

Researchers used data from online surveys after about 1,050 men and 2,056 women 18 to 60 years old answered questions regarding current and past vibrator use (with themselves or a partner) and sexual function. More than 52 percent of women said they had used a vibrator, with about a quarter of them have used one in the past month. Vibrator users scored highest on the sexual function questions, which included desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, pain, and overall function.
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What’s love got to do with it?
May 2, 2014 Comments Off on What’s love got to do with it?

Globe and Mail –

First, the scientific reason:

As you may know, falling in love involves feelings of exhilaration, intense passion, and euphoria, especially if the loved one reciprocates the passion. Of course, if the loved one doesn’t feel the same way, these feelings morph into desperation and heartbreak. But let’s not go there today.

Back to falling in love. Our energy skyrockets, we have heightened powers of concentration and persistent thoughts about the object of our affection. During this state, our brains show heightened activity in areas that are rich in dopamine if scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
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It’s not your father’s depression…
May 1, 2014 Comments Off on It’s not your father’s depression…

Huffington Post

Men and women can experience depression in different ways, and although they also share many common signs and symptoms, a better understanding of the differences may help those with depression, researchers say.

“We have known about sex differences for years when it comes to depression, and they are absolutely essential to understanding the illness,” said Jill Goldstein, director of research at the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
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Eight critical barriers to the healing of addiction
April 25, 2014 Comments Off on Eight critical barriers to the healing of addiction

Society tells those struggling with addiction too, “Just quit it.”

It sounds so logical and so simple to those uttering the words — and every addict agrees with the plan and even pulls it off for short periods of time.

Then religion comes alongside and delivers what we believe is a more compassionate message: “With the help of Christ (And a little guilt — er, accountability — from your Promise Keepers group) just quit it.”
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For the sake of your marriage, TALK!!!
April 23, 2014 Comments Off on For the sake of your marriage, TALK!!!

Huffington Post –

That distinction became very important in determining which relationships survived. At the end of five years, 43 percent of couples who had revealed the infidelity were divorced compared to 80 percent of the couples whose infidelity was kept secret.

“The current results suggest that many revealed infidelity couples were able to sustain the gains made during treatment and preserve the integrity of the relationship,” the researchers explained.
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Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement
April 17, 2014 Comments Off on Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement

Daily Beast

The scandal around Phillips is just the latest in a long line of ugly shocks to the far Christian right that threatens to destabilize and possibly capsize the community. As The Wire reported in early March, Bill Gothard, the leader of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, resigned his position in the wake of a series of accusations of alleged sexual abuse from dozens of women in the organization.
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Session Notes

Early to bed, early to rise… Really?

Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?

The real cost of a conflicted marriage.

How to make your marriage work.

What correlates with sexual health?

What’s love got to do with it?

It’s not your father’s depression…

Eight critical barriers to the healing of addiction

For the sake of your marriage, TALK!!!

Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement

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