Claire Conger

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Claire's Original Art Greeting Cards
There is nothing that says I care like a real snail-mail greeting card!
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Entries Tagged as 'Advice'

Posture and Autism

March 15th, 2021 · No Comments

Posture guru Kathleen Porter posits that placing babies on their backs brings a significant risk of autism. They lie helpless and don’t develop the core strength required to hold up their heads. Then we encase them in little bucket strollers and car seats, their tail bones tucked, and they don’t get enough time to feel the sensations resulting from pushing against the floor and so do not learn to use their bodies in a natural way. Slumped posture results and inhibits the circulatory system such that the brain is not properly nourished.

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Tags: Advice · Today's Idea

Your Body Believes Every Word You Say

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Any book that gives me insight into why things are happening to me is priceless. Your Body Believes Every Work You Say by Barbara Hoberman Levine is just such a book.

I read Ms Levine’s section about patients anticipatory thoughts about radiation treatment for cancer predicting their results. The patient who thought of the radiation as “black and red arrows spraying his body” had a bad result while the patient who thought of the radiation as a “golden beam of energy” had a good result. (See page 164.)

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Tags: Advice · Health and Happiness · Movies Worth Watching

Dr Jill Taylor: Getting Your Brain To Do What You Want It To

June 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Thanks to reader Ada for turning us on to Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and her book My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey.”

Read Ada’s comment on Wow! Oprah is Working with Happiness Guru Eckhart Tolle.

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Tags: Advice · Emotional Freedom · Health and Happiness · Non Fiction

Dating Rules: The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, a book of seven interconnected short stories by Melissa Bank, has excellent advice about dating: Be yourself!

Dr Phil, I’m sure, would agree.

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Tags: Advice · Emotional Freedom · Literary Fiction · Love and Sex · Relationships

Anger and Loneliness Are both Derived from Great Expectations

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

It occurred to me this morning that anger is a lot like loneliness.

The difference between feeling lonely and simply being alone is that when you’re lonely you have the expectation and desire of not being by yourself—you expected that you would be sharing with someone.

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Tags: Advice · Emotional Freedom