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My strangely amazing year of living gratefully

Imagine dinner with friends at a restaurant in the Highlands or on Frankfort Avenue. You bring up the topic of gratitude and awkward silence ensues. These are tough times and isn’t gratitude a little soft and sappy? Everyone looks down at their plates. Well, it’s time to look up — because now is exactly the…

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Why are we so bad at being thankful?

Like author Janice Kaplan, most of us have been blessed with much, but fall short in expressing gratitude for it. A desire to be happier led Kaplan on a year-long commitment to live gratefully. At Norton Healthcare’s free July 19 “Go Confidently” event, she’ll discuss her journey to joy, captured in her New York Times…

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Best-selling author to speak about transforming your life through gratitude

Join Janice Kaplan, author of the New York Times best seller, “The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform your Life,” at Norton Healthcare’s free July 19 “Go Confidently” event. During the public event, Kaplan will detail what led her to practice gratitude daily, and how, although practicing gratitude initially…

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31-day decluttering challenge

If you didn’t get a chance to see professional organizer Peter Walsh at Norton Healthcare’s Go Confidently event on April 17, then read on. A motivational speaker, Walsh is known around the globe from his TLC series “Clean Sweep,” his appearances on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and his collection of books on decluttering and getting…

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Clutter? Let it go!

Chew on this: Clutter is stuff. But clutter is never about stuff. Professional organizer Peter Walsh will be Norton Healthcare’s next Go Confidently speaker on Monday, April 17. Walsh is known around the globe from his TLC series “Clean Sweep,” his appearances on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and his collection of books on decluttering and…

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3 rules for raising happy, resilient kids

On any given day, a visit to a local playground will uncover a wide range of children’s emotions. When expressed properly, these emotions foster growth, maturity and happiness in children. How do children learn to understand their emotions? And what can parents do when a child explodes in anger or hides in sadness? In her…

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7 steps to starting a meditation routine

At our most recent Go Confidently series event, Susan Piver, mindfulness expert and New York Time best-selling author, shared with the audience how to put spiritual wisdom into practice at work, home and everyday life through the practice of meditation. She taught us that the key is to live mindfully and stay centered through meditation….

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How to embrace joy and pain, together

How do you find the good in something as extraordinarily horrible as being burned alive in a car accident? Allison Massari not only survived such an ordeal but is thriving and sharing her life lessons with others dealing with pain and trauma. Massari was a 32-year-old artist driving home with a load of highly flammable…

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Survival guide for being human

Allison Massari is Norton Healthcare’s next Go Confidently speaker, and she has an incredible survival story. Though she lived a full life before 1998, that’s when her story of truly living begins. That’s the day she survived being trapped in a burning car following an accident — the catalyst for beginning her journey to mastering…

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You’re all that and a bag of chips!

I remember like yesterday the first time I decided I didn’t like my body. I was 12 and going to my best friend’s house for a birthday party. I was so excited, until I found out it was a pool party. I suddenly got really nervous. I couldn’t go! I wouldn’t be caught dead in…

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