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Finding Wisdom from Deep, Very Deep within My Bosom | Healthy Aging Series: S11 E4

Wisdom From Friends Friends come into our lives and hopefully they bring balance and equilibrium by challenging us, or sharpening us, or even healing us. Sometimes they help you take a stronger stand for something you already believe or help you discard a view that you no longer value. My wife and I were vacationing...

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True North Counseling, Healthy Aging Series, Aging with an Attitude

The Gift of Clarity | Healthy Aging Series: S11 E3

Many years ago (now I sound like I’m writing a folk tale.)… Many years ago, when my sons were little and Derrick was four or five years old, it was a beautiful Sunday morning and we were walking into church from the parking lot. Derrick had his hands full of I-Joe’s. That was his way...

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Joseph Pilates: The Quiet Revolutionary | Healthy Aging Series: S11 E2

I watched the Mike Tyson/Jake Paul fight last night. It’s probably the first professional fight I’ve watched in 20 years, maybe even longer. As a new therapist in 1997, I was working for the community health center, and I was mesmerized by Mike Tyson. I remember watching him bite off the ear of Evander Holyfield....

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True North Counseling, Healthy Aging Series, Mark Neese, Aging with an Attitude

How to Become a Cynic | Healthy Aging Series: S11 E1

November 5, 2024. The sky did not fall. OK, OK, take a chill pill. I know what you’re going to say. The presidential election is a big deal. I agree! I voted.  It seems like elections these days tend to create hostility, not just among strangers, but even between families and friends. And maybe even...

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Mark Neese, True North Counseling, Healthy Aging Series Season 11

Healthy Aging Series: Season 11 Teaser!

I don’t know when I first watched, “The Blues Brothers.” It came out in 1980, but I was in Bible College then, so I’m kinda thinking I didn’t watch it in the theater because the college I went to had strict rules about not going to the theater, although they did approve going to see,...

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How to Make 2025 Your “Bubble” Year

                  My 13th birthday was unremarkable. Nineteen Sixty-nine was full of important events. Joe Namath led the Jets to victory over the Colts in the Super Bowl that year, 16 to 7. Richard Nixon was inaugurated as president of the United States. Katherine Hepburn and Barbara Streisand...

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