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Fruit Flies and Love

By Diane Ackerman — 2012

So, is the human dinner date really just courtship feeding after all, a custom we share with fruit flies, robins and chimpanzees? Yes. But what’s the harm in that?

Read on www.nytimes.com

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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C. S. Lewis
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The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships

Somi generously applies the subtle knowledge from her West African culture to this one. Simply and beautifully, she reveals the role of spirit in every marriage, friendship, relationship, and community.

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Sobonfu Some
2000
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Emotional Equations: Simple Steps for Creating Happiness + Success in Business + Life

When Chip Conley, dynamic author of the bestselling Peak, suffered a series of devastating personal and professional setbacks, he began using what he came to call “Emotional Equations” (such as Joy = Love – Fear) to help him focus on the variables in life that he could handle, rather than...

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Chip Conley
2013
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Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Filled with secrets from a therapist’s toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times.

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Julie Smith
2024
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Second Act of Service: Veterans Find Work and Purpose in the National Park Service | NBC News

Veterans make up 5.9% of the American working age population. But in the National Park Service, veterans make up 26% of the workforce.

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2018
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Trained Not to Cry: The Challenge of Being a Soldier | Richard Doss | TEDxNaperville

Members and Veterans of the US Armed Forces have unacceptably high suicide rates. Why? It’s not the combat experience like one would suggest, but a much more complex issue that needs to be talked about.

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2016
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My Body of Work: An Experience of Cancer + Art Therapy: Anise Bullimore at TEDxBow

Anise Bullimore shares with us a deeply personal and beautiful talk about the power of art to heal and to understand our emotions and her experiences with the Macmillan team.

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2013
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The Big Ordeal

Coping with cancer is hard. It is an emotional ordeal as well as a physical one, with known and somewhat predictable psychological responses. And yet, patients often feel isolated and alone when dealing with the stress, anxiety, depression, and existential crises so typical with a cancer diagnosis.

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Cynthia Hayes
2024
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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

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Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan
2024
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Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

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Harriet Lerner
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Connection with Nature