Posts in “Health and Wellbeing”
Ready to Leave the Recession Behind for a Fresh Start in 2012?
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
We’re walking into 2012 and most Americans still taste recession. Perhaps they are dealing with:
- Loss of their job
- Loss of investments
- Loss of health
- Working more jobs and making less money
- Financial strains affecting their relationships
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Do You Know Who’s Steering Your Ship?
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
The Italian cruise tragedy raises several concerns starting from “who was in charge,” to “what was the contingency plan,” to “what was the multi-layered plan in case of an emergency.”
This is a terrible and shocking situation of great magnitude that forces all of us to take a serious look into our organization’s leadership structure, systems, and contingency plans.
There are captains and then there are leaders.
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Mom and Daughter Talk Sex
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Years ago I shared with my friends how I decided to prescribe birth control pills to my daughter, who would have otherwise needed to wait three months to see a doctor. My friends were stunned. Although their sons and daughters were in their late teens and, their parents assumed, they were sexually active, none of my friends had had an honest conversation suggesting ways to protect the kids from both sexually-transmitted diseases or pregnancy.
As committed parents who want to raise well-grounded, smart, and self-sufficient individuals, we spend more time teaching them good manners, the benefits of great education, and the wonders of competitive sports. The big question is: why are parents not talking more about sex with their kids?
My daughter and I were discussing this recently. She thought this video would help many teens as much as our conversation helped her.
It’s Showtime
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Welcome! What a pleasure it is to share the lessons learned and exciting projects with you! Dr. Gaby’s Take: Make Life Interesting is all about the amazing people I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing and the valuable lessons I’ve learned from them.
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The Launch of a Dream
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Many of us dream castles into the air. Many of us build foundations under them. For me, it is a pleasure to finally share my dream with everyone. I’m excited to announce the formal launch of Dr. Gaby’s Take: Make Life Interesting, an Internet television show that airs every week where I talk about and interview fascinating subjects and people.
Episode 1: Leadership and Influence with Randy Gage
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When the Disease of Stigma Kills More than the Disease Itself
Have you ever had the flu, chicken pox, or measles? Nobody ever asked to get infected with any of these viruses. Nobody has ever asked to get infected with the HIV virus either. One in five people in the US carries the HIV virus and doesn’t even know it. You can’t treat what you don’t know. If you are young and healthy and your friends look young and healthy, it would not even cross your mind that any of them may have the virus. Today is December, the month of HIV and AIDS awareness, as next year is the 30-year anniversary of AIDS awareness, and already celebrities and influential politicians are discussing how to move forward.
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The Danger of Bias
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Natalia, my daughter, was only six years old when she came running home from school one day, eager to tell me what she had just learned in art class. I was in my early thirties at the time. I’d had her when I was twenty-two and then graduated from med school as a doctor at twenty-four, with her and my son in tow. So when she told me this story, I was a young mom as well as a young doctor training in psychiatry at the time.
Natalia was so excited, she didn’t have enough breath to tell me everything that had happened to her in the one minute she got to me. It was odd for her to be so thrilled, almost agitated by whatever she had to tell me.
Her excitement suddenly made sense when she told me she had learned about Vincent Van Gogh and his amazing story. She loved his art, but wow, what a story she had to tell about his personal life! Almost immediately after talking about his art, she blurted out: “You know, Mom? He cut off his ear and then he killed himself.”
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Is Your Brilliant Personality Killing Your Business?
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
“Manners Maketh Man” was our school motto. I was so young I couldn’t even read when this was said during our assemblies but I came to understand what it meant early on. We could be the greatest at what we did but the way in which we interacted with one another spoke more about our greatness than our intellectual or physical ability demonstrated during debates, competitions, and daily activities.
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Do you hold your loved ones hostage?
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
There are multiple ways in which people reciprocate their feelings: some exchange love for love and create lasting relationships that help one another experience happiness and growth. Others control their loved ones through guilt, money, or power.
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Privacy, What Privacy? The Era of Public is Here
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
My daughter started college at seventeen. During one of her assignments she was given an option: to either submit a series of papers versus participating in student research by completing surveys. The professor was stunned when I declined to give consent for her participation. He was even more surprised when he learned that both my husband and I had been researchers in the past. How come we would not allow our daughter to contribute to the sublime cause of furthering research? The answer was very simple: completing the assignments was part of her learning experience and a direct benefit to her. Participating in research had no learning experience and it only benefited them.
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