Author: Elayne Savage, PhD
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Coping with the Boston Marathon Bombing
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When we are paralyzed by fear in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings and a small voice whispers – “What’s going to happen to me?” Here’s how to cope with the resulting traumatic stress.
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Honoring Your Differences Instead of Feeling Threatened By Them
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There’s a tendency to make someone ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ just because they have a different point of view or way of doing things. Why not honor your differences – instead of feeling threatened by them?
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On Valentine’s Day Is the Value of Your Relationship Tied Up in a Gift?
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Don’t get thrown off center by Valentine’s Day disappointment. Here are some tips for navigating Valentine’s Day whether you are part of a couple or unattached.
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Django Freeman Meets James Hood
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A look at some parallels between Django Unchained and James Hood’s role in civil rights history when he and Vivian Malone courageously integrated the University of Alabama in 1963.
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Rage is ‘Anger with a History’ – Trying to Make Sense of the Sandy Hook School Killings
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Trying to understand the Sandy Hook Elementary School Killings: Rage is beyond the experience of anger. Where anger reflects something happening in the present, rage reflects overwhelming feelings from the past which intrude into the present situation. Rage is ‘anger with a history.’
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Mourning a Mentor – Remembering Susan Jeffers
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Susan Jeffers death has hit me pretty hard. If it had not been for her wisdom and mentoring, my first book may never have been published. Susan taught me to “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway!”
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There Is to Be No Grieving
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When my mother and grandmother died in a DC-3 crash I was 12 years old. The rule in my family was “There is to be no grieving.” Incomplete or unresolved or complicated grieving has powerful long-term effects throughout our lives. As with others who have experienced significant childhood challenges, I’m repeatedly reminded that healing is…
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Honoring The Immortality of Teachers
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Decades ago my Omaha Central High School English teacher, Marcia Blacker, asked a question that made a huge difference for me. Somebody cared. Many years later I located her and thanked her. Our friendship has flourished.