Let Go of Your Ex: Avoid These 7 Excuses!

To successfully move on from a broken relationship, you need to separate emotionally, physically and psychologically.  The best way to do that is to cut off all contact with your ex so that you have time and space to heal.  Yet many people try to justify and rationalize their continued contact.  But these are just [...]

Duchess Digest: How to Have it All

Having it all is an idea, a dream and a practice you’ve heard about for a long time. This ever elusive “all” is the holy grail of a life well lived. I should know; I’m writing a book about it!
But what does having it all really mean? I heard a very interesting idea on this [...]

Duchess Digest: Yes You Can!

We all go through time periods where we feel like victims. It’s tempting, but very dangerous, to look to another time, person or situation as being the solution to the rut we’re sitting down in. It’s the old “if only, then” slogan that can get us ladies into some serious trouble. If only I had [...]

Dating Success in 2010: Twelve No-Fail Tips

With New Years Eve right around the corner, singletons everywhere have begun planning their 2010 New Year’s relationship resolutions or rather, a new dating “plan of attack”.
1) Keep a journal: Try to write in it as much as possible, about anything and everything. At the end of each month, read through it and notice detrimental actions [...]

A Health Reform Bill for All of Us: It’s Now or Never

Last week, the public health insurance option Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid put into his merged bill was stripped out, and a “compromise” allowing people over the age of 55 to buy into Medicare if they chose was added . . .
And then that compromise was also stripped out, to appease Senator Joe Lieberman, who [...]

I Got Married and Other Mistakes #2. He’s Baaack

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Cartoonist Barbara Slate has her pencil on the pulse of every woman’s nightmare: life without love. Her slant on relationships is a bittersweet bonbon.
She has created characters for Marvel and DCComics, and writes Betty and Veronica for Archie Comic.Her book, YOU CAN DO A GRAPHIC NOVEL is coming out Jan. 2010 from ALPHA/ Penguin [...]

8 Ways to Build Self Esteem

Coaches often use a Life Balance Wheel to help clients determine whether their lives are in balance. Sometimes I suggest to a client to draw a circle, divide it into eighths and use the labels shown below for each section of the pie. Then I’ll suggest they put a mark in each section from 1 [...]

I Got Married and Other Mistakes: #1. Wedding Day

Cartoonist Barbara Slate has her pencil on the pulse of every woman’s nightmare: life without love. Her slant on relationships is a bittersweet bonbon.
She has created characters for Marvel and DCComics, and writes Betty and Veronica for Archie Comic.Her book, YOU CAN DO A GRAPHIC NOVEL is coming out Jan. 2010 from ALPHA/ Penguin Group [...]

Is Your Boyfriend a Turkey? Six Sure-Fire Signs

You’ve been dating him now for a while — so why don’t you bite the bullet and let him meet the parents? If you can’t stand the thought of sitting through one more Thanksgiving in which your family still teases you about your “Invisible Man,” maybe your turkey isn’t on you plate, but in your [...]

Duchess Digest: Serendipity

As I sit under the cloudy gray, blue skies of England’s beautiful Cotswold region I can not help but wonder about the idea of serendipity; the occurrence of fortunate discoveries by accident. It’s a pretty powerful thing. How many times have you stumbled across an amazing restaurant that soon became your favorite simply because you [...]

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