In the old days, if you needed a job, you could pretty much find one anywhere. Nobody really had to have college degrees to get a great job, and many people found jobs that they trained on-the-job in, and spent their entire lives in the same career. You really only had to worry about going to ... Views: 757
Ok, let’s say that despite what we’ve said up until this point; that the recession really isn’t that bad and that not everyone is going to lose their jobs or become a desperately poor vagrant on the streets, some people may still lose their jobs. While it is a fact of life; bad economy or good ... Views: 844
The job interview is one of the main things holding you back from changing careers and moving into a new job. You need to ace your job interview and put that career transition fear on hold. After all, if you know what to do before the interview, then you are one step closer to getting that job. ... Views: 932
So, you just graduated from college, and you have the longed for degree, so now what? Well, it is time to get your first real job. The one that will mark the beginning of a long term work relationship or be a great stepping-stone to a fabulous career.
Of course, if you were going to college ... Views: 721
Young people often find that they experience many “firsts” during their high school years. Among them are the first car, the first prom and the first job. High school students see all of these things as a way to access more freedom. The car gives then an opportunity to go where they need to go, ... Views: 988
If you are a college student, and you are considering applying for your first job, you may find that there are many unique opportunities open to you. There are many employers who make it a point to hire college students. They enjoy feeling like they are making a difference. Or maybe they are ... Views: 737
Every company is different and one of the ways companies can maintain a happy work place is by offering certain benefits and perks with the job. While some benefits are fairly standard, others can be considered more on the ‘perk’ side. Benefits are often expected while perks are an extra little ... Views: 770
At some point during your lifetime, you may find yourself dealing with a job layoff. The whole idea of a layoff is one of the most frightening things that many people keep in the back of their minds every single day. Since our country has recently gone into a recession, more and more people are ... Views: 729
When you are changing careers, the first ninety days of your new job are very important. Once you are hired, the first ninety days or three months is considered your probation period. During this time, either you or your new employer can change your mind.
Just because you got hired, does not ... Views: 1159
Just because you got the job you wanted does not mean that you should settle in and be content with this position. If you are interested on advancing, you should always be looking to the future. Once you are on the job, find out what may be available and when you can be considered for ... Views: 713
When you are making your career development plans, if you are interested in advancing to higher paid jobs, you may need to factor in more education. Depending on the field you are working in you may get to a certain level and get stuck if you do not have a college degree. But do not let that ... Views: 673
There are many practices that involve networking for a job. These practices however require that you adopt the best which will give you the desired results in the pursuit of job seeking. On online networking, seeking for a job is done in a completely different way. Social networking is what ... Views: 754
Social networks are structure made of nodes mainly individuals or specific organizations. These are ties developing from precise types of interdependency, including values, ideas, visions, financial exchange, sexual relationships, friendship kinship, conflict or trade. Networking online has ... Views: 745
A resume serves the sole purpose of marketing an individual to the potential employers. It should therefore be written in the best way possible for you to achieve that dream job. There are basics that you need to consider when writing any kind of resume.
Writing something appealing to the ... Views: 807
Going back to work can be a very exciting time, but it is also a time that can really make you nervous. Those nerves can literally drive you up the wall and even cause you to get cold feet when going to your first interview. What you really need is to conjure up the confidence that you already ... Views: 730
If you have been away from the work arena for a few years, or even a few months, it can seem a bit overwhelming to think about going back into the fray. You may feel as though you have missed too much while you have been away, that it is hopeless to think you can ever catch up. You may feel just ... Views: 712
Many people who are going through a career change assume that their job is done after the interview. After that final hand shake, it’s not up to them anymore. After that final goodbye, it’s up to the hiring manager to make contact and determine if another interview or an offering is necessary. ... Views: 947
Each year, millions of people will begin a new career. This may be because they have just gotten out of college and are starting out in the world, or it could be because our economy has gone downhill very fast, and many people are losing their jobs or being laid off. There are even lots of ... Views: 700
What We Have Learned: Mindfulness Meditation and the TC Perspective
From a historical perspective, the social organization of the TC is designed to address the whole person through surfacing and raising awareness of negative behaviors (Arbiter & Mullen, 2002). Remarkable changes in lifestyle ... Views: 1385
Method
Orientation:
One week prior to beginning each course, an overview of the MBCT course is presented during a Community Gathering. This provides an opportunity to explain the practice of mindfulness and to emphasize that participation in the course requires commitment and hard work. Core ... Views: 1983
MBCT at Amity’s Circle Tree Ranch
A series of rather unexpected and fortuitous events lead to the introduction of Mindfulness-based meditation at Amity’s Circle Tree Ranch Teaching and Therapeutic Community in March, 2008. Rod Mullen, President and CEO of Amity Foundation, and Mary Stanton, ... Views: 1562
Introduction
The impetus for the groundbreaking implementation of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) into the Therapeutic Community (TC) setting came from Amity Foundation’s interest in providing innovative therapies which help to unravel the complex knots that addictions and ... Views: 2368
What We Have Learned: Mindfulness Meditation and the TC Perspective
From a historical perspective, the social organization of the TC is designed to address the whole person through surfacing and raising awareness of negative behaviors (Arbiter & Mullen, 2002). Remarkable changes in lifestyle ... Views: 1259
MBCT at Amity’s Circle Tree Ranch
A series of rather unexpected and fortuitous events lead to the introduction of Mindfulness-based meditation at Amity’s Circle Tree Ranch Teaching and Therapeutic Community in March, 2008. Rod Mullen, President and CEO of Amity Foundation, and Mary Stanton, ... Views: 1696
Introduction
The impetus for the groundbreaking implementation of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy into the Therapeutic Community setting came from Amity Foundation’s interest in providing innovative therapies which help to unravel the complex knots that addictions and co-occurring ... Views: 1902
It’s sad to read about such a young person dying due to drug overdose. This only strengthens the purpose to continue delivering effective drug prevention material, and help save as many lives as possible.
In recent media within Edmonton, Alberta Canada, a teen died from using the drug ecstasy ... Views: 983
Alcohol is the most commonly recognized drug worldwide, and is accepted anywhere and everywhere. Alcohol abuse and or addiction will lead to very serious life threatening problems, both physically and psychologically. Of course a major problem of alcohol abuse is drunk driving. According to ... Views: 1121
Inhalants are well recognized as being one of the most used and destructive drugs amongst children, teens, incarcerated people, and institutionalized people. An inhalant can be a gas, aerosol, or solvent, which is breathed and absorbed through the lungs. Most commonly used inhalants, which are ... Views: 3897
Another day at the court house downtown to bail my father out of jail. His drug addiction has been getting him into trouble for too many years now. For a guy who has two ex-wives and three children, he sure does have his priorities a little mixed up. Of course he always has been like this, he ... Views: 761
Former professional hockey player and Narconon Trois-Rivieres spokesperson, Claude Lapointe has joined the fight against drugs. Mr. Lapointe has signed on to help raise awareness about drug addiction, and help educate today’s youth concerning the truth about drugs. Claude will also be donating ... Views: 1804
How could I have missed so much? Were the signs not there, it’s too late, he’s gone. What could I have done? How could I have been so blind and not see it? Drug use is all over the media, hitting headlines almost every day. Why was I not able to pick up on it? I feel so ashamed; he was such a ... Views: 714
Heroin or Diacetylmorphine is a direct descendent of the opium poppy; first cultivated in 3400 BC, and is used today as a painkiller and a recreational drug. Heroin was first produced in 1874 in the United Kingdom, and is a semi-synthetic opiate synthesized from morphine.
It was first marketed ... Views: 2097
April 22, 2009 will be the start of the Green Generation Campaign, and in 2010 will be the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. With such great attention being put forward to help the planet, now is the time to take some attention and help those battling drug or alcohol addiction. We are working ... Views: 678
As of April 16, 2009, Narconon Trois-Rivières has made a pledge to create a drug free Québec. Our plan is to eradicate the drug problem affecting the great province of Québec, and to do this it will take dedicated team players. Narconon Trois-Rivières, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre ... Views: 763
This particular drug has had devastating effects on people’s lives, causing deadly addictions, and very severe physical dependencies to it. Developing an addiction from this drug can happen in many different ways:
Doctor prescription for long-term pain management
Doctor ... Views: 2209
Drug prevention specialists are dedicated in getting the truth about drugs known to as many children as possible. It is their purpose to save as many youth as possible from ever getting involved with drugs and alcohol.
Narconon Trois-Rivieres drug prevention specialist’s Isabelle Roy and Eliane ... Views: 984
The devils drug; as it is known by most users; crack/cocaine is one of the most addictive and destructive drugs ever created. A former user quoted, “I would never wish this upon my worst enemy.”
This drug will create an overwhelming desire to experience the feeling of the first high over and ... Views: 3088
To renew and reinvent our lives, WE NEED A PLAN! Here it is: a seven-day process to work with over and over. This plan incorporates physical, mental and spiritual work. Use the whole seven-day process, or choose any one of the days to work with as you create the life you want.
DAY 1: ... Views: 1267
Food is perhaps the most important cornerstone of health recovery and longevity, with an amazing power to nourish, protect, and heal your body. Improper nutrition, however, will promote the acceleration of disease and aging in many ways, including calcification, acidosis, oxidation, insulin ... Views: 926
Today, we are living in a society riddled with disease, illness, and disorders, and many of these are a result of a malfunctioning immune system. In fact, just about everybody seems to have a condition or disease that they are being treated for, even children. This was not the case just a decade ... Views: 1465
Despite the environmental stresses we face daily, our less than ideal lifestyle choices, and our genetic challenges, we can reap impressive health results through consistent use of therapeutic herbs, which can strengthen the structures and functions of our bodies. Many Americans are familiar ... Views: 1424
We are all affected in some way by addiction, whether our own or that of someone we care about. Yet no physical disorder that affects so many of us in so many ways is so little recognized and so little understood. Other efforts to be healthy will fail as long as addiction—whether to alcohol, ... Views: 13350
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I am always on the lookout for new and exciting products that help enhance health and wellness. So, I am thrilled to let you in on a little-known but very exciting substance called fulvic acid. Don’t be surprised if you’ve never heard of fulvic acid. I have only been researching ... Views: 11041
Have you heard of hudor? Its effects overshadow even the most potent ancient Chinese herbs. Its healing capabilities outperform wonder drugs from deep in the Amazonian rain forest. It holds the key to countless health benefits and wellness miracles.
Hudor can make your nails stronger, hair ... Views: 2436
As we age, certain hormone levels decline, creating hormone imbalances that increase our risk for many degenerative diseases. These hormone imbalances and deficiencies will accelerate the aging process. Supplementing with bioidentical hormones can restore hormones to youthful levels and restore ... Views: 2773
Our bodies are literally made from earth. Have you ever really thought about that? Every speck that is currently your physical body was once either water from the earth or the very ground that we walk on. What’s more, the stuff that you are made of today will one day be part of the earth again. ... Views: 2168
Consider yourself a human superorganism, for inside you lives an intimate, highly organized community of microbes. These intelligent beings, including bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and so on, inhabit our digestive, respiratory, and urinary tracts as well as the surface of our skin—in the trillions! ... Views: 2646
Breast cancer rates in Europe dropped dramatically for five to six years, only to rebound at the end of that period. For a while it seemed that breast cancer might be going or gone, but then it came back. What was going on? World War II! The war diminished breast cancer? Could it possibly have ... Views: 1584
It seems for so many of us that life gets reprioritized, and our health is rarely at the forefront of our to-do lists. By the time I meet with clients, they are usually at a point where they have tried four or five diets, hoping for a quick and motivating change. Unfortunately, they were looking ... Views: 1107
So, Doc, you gonna make me bark like a dog or quack like a duck?”
Kevin handed me the clipboard with his pre-session questionnaire as he sat down in my “client recliner.”
“No, I think we’ll skip that today,” I said smiling. “And please call me Dave. I’m not a doctor.”
I could see he was ... Views: 1474