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- How to Succeed in Sex Therapy - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2011 from Jan HallI am sorry to say it but there is no magic wand which can make your sex life better. You must be willing to get solid therapy with an accredited expert and you must change your negative thinking, attitude, feelings and your behaviour. The typical ways that people sabotage their sex therapy ...
Views: 2344 - THE SINGLES GUIDE TO STRESS MANAGEMENT - by Submitted on Sep 30, 2011 from Jan HallHow do you keep up with this highly competitive and rapidly changing world and manage your stress levels and stay healthy …and look for Mr or Ms Right at the same time? Well from my observations at a typical suburban nightclub recently, lots of you are not doing very well! The obvious signal ...
Views: 972 - How To Make Masturbation Feel Like Fun - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2011 from Jan HallAnxiety and guilt about sex often relates to masturbation. Common judgements and old wives tales include warnings that your hand will shrivel up and fall off, or you’ll grow hair on the back of your hand or your hair will fall out. Apparently, the earliest Encyclopaedia of Sex advises that ...
Views: 3323 - Why A Leader Needs To Be A Success Coach - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2011 from Jan HallAre you a leader? Well, here's a challenge for you!As a leader, you are a success coach with an awesome responsibility. How can you keep your team goal-oriented, motivated and coach them to success? Most importantly, how can you coach your potential successors to excellence and magnificant ...
Views: 998 - Sex In Older Age And How To Cope With A Partner Not Able To Perform - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2011 from Jan HallGerry was sixty-eight and Sonia was sixty-one and they came for sex-therapy because Gerry was having trouble with sustaining an erection. He felt mortified because he was a high performer in his life and was not used to failing. Sonia had two marriages previously where she had been a victim of ...
Views: 1603 - Why Long Distance Relationships Don’t Work - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan Hall“It’s just got to work out. Fate intended us to be together! Otherwise, why would two people from opposite sides of the country literally bump into each other at a conference and fall so deeply in love?” Sue was working hard at convincing herself that her relationship with Max was “it’ - ‘life’s ...
Views: 1255 - How to Keep Up the Passion When Living With the Oldies - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallTime and time again I hear stories of couples who live with the oldies for the very good reason of saving money and find out that their sex lives get put on hold. Living with parents or in-laws may be practical if saving for a first home, but can be the equivalent of “hitting the penis on the ...
Views: 1369 - Would You Put Up With a Workaholic Partner and No Sex? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallAndrew was a very handsome and fit twenty-seven year old. He self-referred for therapy because he confused about what to do with his relationship. He had first met Cherie five years ago when they had an instant attraction, but because she was already in relationship, they only saw each other as ...
Views: 3380 - How to Prevent Date Rape and Know that No Means No. - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallDate Rape is when a couple get together for an agreed date and one partner pushes the other one into sex when they don’t really want to. Mandy was sixteen and was in her boyfriend’s bedroom, lying on his bed, kissing him passionately. There was no-one else at home. He started to undress her ...
Views: 1338 - How to Sabotage Sex Therapy - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallAs a practicing sex therapist, I never can understand how so many people expect that sex therapy will work in one session! These people are expecting a “magic wand” solution. Well there is no magic wand except for the willingness to do your own work and change your thinking, your attitude, your ...
Views: 1123 - How To Remember To Show Your Love - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan HallRosie and Peter were juggling full-time careers and bringing up three children. They had been increasingly concerned about tempers fraying and short fuses as a major negative effect on their family. They would start every day with a good intention to be loving, but never seemed to have the time ...
Views: 735 - Your Best Match Is Someone Around Your Own Age - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan HallAccording to Barbara D’Angelis, author of the best book I know to finding the ideal partner, “Are You the One For Me”, an age difference of more than eleven years is a “time bomb”. This means that everything may start out rosy, but sooner or later there is bound to be a blow-up –a major conflict ...
Views: 678 - How Parents Can Teach Their Children About Respect and Responsibility - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan HallLearning to be respectful and how to act with responsibility, are fundamental lessons for almost all children. Children are never too young to learn to say please and thank you, to ask before taking, pick up toys and tidy their room, or take care with the possessions of others. Why is a ...
Views: 895 - Why A Man Should See An Image Consultant for a Style Makeover - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan HallYou will have your colors analyzed so that you can confidently choose colors that enhance your personal power. You will also be advised how to get the difference that makes the difference in your individual presentation for elegant, business and casual wear. They will also teach you how ...
Views: 1138 - How to Trust Him Again If Your Man Sees A Prostitute? - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan HallAlthough a woman may feel immense hurt and anger to discover that her partner has visited with a prostitute, it is strongly recommended that he be given a chance to explain the circumstances. There are two types of men who see prostitutes. The first type is the man who has an addiction to ...
Views: 4679 - Why the Age of Consent for Sex is Important - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan HallThe Right Person to Have Sex With The “age of consent” is the age at which it becomes legal for young people to engage in penetrative sexual acts. There are laws to stop older people from taking advantage of people younger than sixteen by having sex with them. There are different laws in ...
Views: 4975 - The Myth of the Fight-Free Family - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallWho has a fight-free family? Whenever I ask this question of my audience everybody looks around the room :all hoping that someone else will admit that most mornings, by the end of breakfast time, their family has fought at least one major battle already. There’s big smiles of relief when I tell ...
Views: 906 - Top Tips To Keep Romance Alive - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallMost studies of love and marriage show that the decline of romantic love over time is inevitable. The butterflies of early romance quickly flutter away and are replaced by familiar, predictable attachment. But experiments show that novelty - simply doing new things together as a couple, may ...
Views: 699 - It’s Never Too Late To Tell - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan HallThe national survey on sexuality which was reported in the Australian Study of Health and Relationships published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 27, 2, 200 has a worrying finding. One in twenty Australian men and one in five Australian women reported that they had at ...
Views: 925(1 vote) - Live Life To The Full - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan Hall"Life's for living to the full!" I was listening to Florence Houghton (then aged 83) who had been talking at me for over an hour ... and I was hanging off every word. She had recently made a tandem parachute jump (the oldest person to do so in the southern hemisphere) and was looking forward to ...
Views: 792 - The Realities of Cheating in a Relationship - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallIn an interview on a gay radio program recently the reporter asked his presenting expert why it was important to be monogamous in a relationship. She said that she believed that whether it is a gay or heterosexual partnership, the main reason it is important to be monogamous is that it prevents ...
Views: 1120 - You Deserve The Best Relationship - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallElle’s guy started cheating on her in the first year of their rocky six-year relationship. He had physically and emotionally abused her. Several times he moved interstate without telling her where he was going, only to call her several weeks later, apologising, declaring his everlasting love and ...
Views: 1131 - How Parents Can Help When Their Daughter Is Bullied - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallA mother was very upset as she spoke about her eleven year old daughter who had a very possessive friend. The so-called friend wouldn’t let her daughter play or get close to any other girls at school. She threatened her and was mean to her. The daughter was scared to go to school and had ...
Views: 756 - How to Enhance Your Child’s Self-esteem - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallA woman called Jane told how she was badly scarred by boiling water when she was four and required a lot of surgery over many years. There are no photos of her in the family album from the age of four until she was sixteen, until she was clear of all her treatments to her skin to get rid of the ...
Views: 832(1 vote) - How Parents Can Recharge Their Batteries - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallHow Parents Can Recharge Their Batteries Modern-day media has promoted a myth that children need quality time. In particular mothers fall over themselves to make sure that everyday, everyone of their children gets some special mother time. Why doesn't the same mother make sure she gets the ...
Views: 807(1 vote) - Helping Dads Cope With Separating - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallDouglas came to counselling because he couldn’t cope with not seeing his two sons more than once a week. His ex had tied everything up with a costly court battle and she was dictating the terms of Dad/kids access. Douglas was considering suicide. Statistics suggest separated Australian men ...
Views: 817 - What To Do When Your Husband Cheats with Your Best Friend - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan HallDebbie’s life had seemed to be perfect. She had a wonderful husband, Todd, and three beautiful children and they shared a happy life together. This included camping holidays with her best friend from Teacher’s College, Simone, and her husband and two children. To Debbie’s horror, her husband ...
Views: 8102 - 50 Guidelines for Integrity and Success - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan Hall1. Ask for help –you can’t do it on your own without wasting time, and the power of synergy is exponential. 2. Share your feelings with someone you trust –don’t bottle them up. 3. Don’t sweat the small stuff or rejection – toss it over your shoulder and move on. 4. Record your ...
Views: 913 - Stop Bedwetting: Ten Top Tips - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan Hall1. The first step in becoming dry is WANTING to become dry. A motivated child is much more likely to cooperate and be willing to learn about becoming dry. 2. Give lots of encouragement and praise for dry beds. Never scold or make fun of your child when he/she wets the bed. It feels bad ...
Views: 921(2 votes) - Don’t Let Sexcuses Flatten Your Sex-life - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallIf sex is so fantastic why don’t we have it more often! Who’s ever been too busy for sex? Who’s ever been too tired for sex? Who can’t remember when they last had sex? It’s time now, to look at the “sexcuses” which get in the way of us enjoying regular sex. Let’s look at the top ...
Views: 943(1 vote) - How Good Is Your Relationship? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallIf you want to feel really alive, have high energy and mental alertness, you must be comfortable with your sexual connection. It’s 25% of who you are in your relationship! The other three connections which make up the other 75% of your relationship are your soul, mind, and heart ...
Views: 1155(1 vote) - Should You Have a One Night Stand? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallA client recently had the scare of her life when her husband of 22 years admitted to a 10 month affair with a colleague. He was fed up with "always being the initiator" and had decided to seek out an equal partner. The wife was anguished. She admitted she was warned by her parents "good girls ...
Views: 1191(1 vote) - Absolute Essentials For Sensational Sex - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan Hall"What's gone wrong? Why isn't it working? She's gorgeous, I'm truly in love for the first time in my life and my sex life is non-existent?" John's speech was chaotic. He couldn't believe that he was pouring out his troubles to a psychologist/sex-therapist - especially in having to admit that ...
Views: 977 - The Advantages of Hypnosis With Sexual Anxiety - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallHypnosis is an experience of mind expansion where the unconscious mind may be integrated with the conscious mind. My layman's theory is that we are typically only aware, consciously, of thirty percent of our mind's activity. So what is happening with the other seventy percent? It's all still ...
Views: 1622 - When Should Mothers Return to Work After A Baby? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2011 from Jan HallMichelle was happy. She had a beautiful baby girl of six months and was enjoying being a mother. Suddenly her husband, Paul, was retrenched from his job and there was no money coming in. Paul had little prospect of getting another job but Michelle, a school teacher, could easily return to work. ...
Views: 1308(2 votes) - HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU SHARE OF YOUR SEXUAL PAST? - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Jan HallI recommend that “open communication” is not necessarily the same as totally honest communication – which I call “the overwhelming truth”. Open communication involves deliberately telling your partner how you feel, what you want and what you don’t want, but only in a positive and constructive ...
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