excerpt from The Anger Workbook for Kids

It is important to become aware of situations that make you angry, to notice what you do when you get angry, and to recognize the consequences of your anger. An anger log is a tool to help you do all that.

Excerpt from Coping with Cliques

Starting Off…
When the gossip mill gets going, it can suddenly switch into high gear and get mean and nasty in no time at all, so it’s important to be careful about these gossip sessions. And remember, what your friends in the clique say about you, they just might say behind your back. Once that starts, you never know when the tone will shift and you’ll become the butt of their verbal jabs.

Here’s Kara in action again. Read the following scenarios and then answer the questions after each one.

Michael Tompkins, Ph.D., co-author of Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring discusses hoarding and how friends and loved ones can help.

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Excerpt from Eating the Moment

• Counting Craving Thoughts
• It’s Just a Craving, for Crying Out Loud!
• Craving-Control Chair
• Craving-Control Success Record

Excerpt from In the Mood, Again

Commitment is promising to share your life with one anther and to remain faithful. Although this can be a bit frightening, you have to admit it is also quite exciting. If your partner possesses attributes that you consider important and you both share a similar value system, why not? You are most likely partnered with your best friend. What can be nicer than sharing your life with your best friend?

Excerpt from Five Good Minutes with the One You Love

Even the busiest people can begin to reconnect with the sources of life and love in a relationship if they learn to inhabit the present moment with sensitive and caring attention. Through simple, mindfulness-based practices for stopping, relaxing, connecting, and staying here, the momentum of hurry and worry becomes less compelling. Something else more precious and sustaining returns. The opportunity for a different experience arises. Exploration of deeper, more positive feelings suddenly seems possible, even easier.

Excerpt from Parenting through the Process in Helping Your Child with OCD

Most children with OCD are and want to be “good kids.” Many, however, struggle with anger and irritability. Some have developed a habit of throwing tantrums. Anger and irritability are frequently side effects of living with OCD. Think about it: how do you feel when you are in a room with a radio pounding, people demanding something from you, and a television blaring? Thinking, listening, and functioning are extremely difficult because of all the extraneous noise. In such circumstances you probably feel angry and stressed and want to scream, “Be quiet!” because you can’t hear yourself think. This is similar to how children with OCD frequently feel.

Patty James, MS, co-author of More Vegetables, Please!, shows how to make almond milk.

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by guest blogger Michael A. Thompkins, Ph.D., author of Digging Out

Over the years, most clinicians and researchers have diagnosed people with a compulsive hoarding problem as having obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), in part, because many people with OCD report some hoarding behaviors. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that it may not be accurate to classify compulsive hoarding as OCD for a number of reasons.

Patty James, MS, co-author of More Vegetables, Please!, shows how to make salmon rolls.

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