Life and school are easier for kids who live in homes where good communication, healthy habits, and regular routines exist. Here are some strategies for good communication: 1. Talk Often. 2. Get to the point. 3. Express feelings clearly with ‘I’ statements. 4. Speak for yourself and not for others. 5. Focus on behaviors rather than traits. Effective communication serves as preventive maintenance, reassures family members that they care about each other and appreciate each other’s efforts. Great everyday communication is more efficient when you need to bring up issues, make requests when needed, and resolve conflict when it arises. Communication problems can raise any family’s stress level, leading to conflicts that strain relationships and reduce the general quality of family life. Good communication can help address conflict in a productive way, let family members be heard, and help them stay connected to one another. Family therapy can help families work on essential communication skills.
Judith Nuesch, www.nuyutherapies.com

With fall and its back to school activities, the risk of feeling scattered and overwhelmed is high. Sometimes we even feel a little “crazy” and our mental health starts to waver. It’s hard to find time to relax even though we know that’s what will help to truly put things in perspective so we can accomplish what needs to be done. This, most probably, is an indicator that your right brain is over active. You may be tempted to take something to slow things down some, opening you to substance abuse or medication dependence. You can relax your brain in another way. In this scenario, Brainwave Optimization, which reads surface measures of brain electrical activity, would probably show you high-frequency asymmetry at the temporals. BWO, with its auditory tones to facilitate the auto-calibration of brain activity, will have you functioning more harmoniously, so you can make more conscious, rewarding decisions.
Joanne Couture, [email protected]

While retirement homes and long-term care facilities do a phenomenal job of taking care of those who need a little more help in their daily life, these facilities understandably aren’t for everyone. Every individual should have the right to choose the care they receive and where and when they receive it. A health care agency provides people the ability to choose their care and remain independent in their own home. A health care agency will set up each individual with a certified health care provider whom they are comfortable with and who meets all of their healthcare needs. You shouldn’t have to worry if your loved ones are receiving proper care or being given every opportunity to live life to its fullest, home care gives you peace of mind and allows your loved ones to enjoy life to its fullest.
Eamon O’Brien, www.goldenhr.ca

Have you ever asked yourself, “WHY am I sick and in pain?” We often experience health problems and never know the reason WHY our bodies are struggling to be healthy. When we connect to our own natural intuitive abilities, we are able to access information from within ourselves to find the root and core causes of our health issues. We can communicate intuitively with our body parts, organs, and muscles – every part of us – to better understand what is going on within them. Once we uncover what is causing the problem, we can use our intuition to heal and clear out the issue that is at the core. When you remove the point of contention at its source within yourself, your body is then free from holding the emotion, past experience, or self-sabotaging belief that has been hidden within you.
Shannon Russell, BodyMind Freedom Solutions, www.thedashmethod.com