by Dr Aletta | Aug 24, 2009 | Body/Mind, Mental Health
OR… Discipline is Not a Dirty Word There is nothing new under the sun. The bare-assed truth, when it comes to losing weight, is that we can choose to spend our money on the latest version of ‘energy in must be less than energy out’ or do it the hard way, and... 
by Dr Aletta | Aug 18, 2009 | Family Matters, Relationships
The fastest growing segment of people on Facebook (FB) are those over thirty-five years old. A lot of them are parents. It won’t be long before some very clever hacker will produce Facebook G2: ‘Where your mom can’t find you.’ Why? Because even in the Internet-cell... 
by Dr Aletta | Aug 12, 2009 | Family Matters
Last week in an article about apologizing, I confessed to stealing a friend’s hair brush when I was six. That brush burned a hole in the back of my closet until the unbearable guilt ratted me out to my Mom. She marched me over to my friend’s house and stood at a... 
by Dr Aletta | Aug 7, 2009 | Depression, Family Matters
I admit to being an imperfect mommy. I know I’m in good company because you can get a bunch of books today by many women admitting the same. Not so sixteen years ago when I gave birth to my son. Back then it was odd for a woman to confess that she didn’t feel a... by Dr Aletta | Jul 31, 2009 | Anxiety
“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.” ~ Cynthia Ozick It can be a curse to have a thin skin. For a writer, it is deadly. If you need to be liked by all the people all of the time, writing is...
