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Learn the new approach taken by the Brooklyn Program in New York which had revolutionized how people can overcome addiction without giving it up - they leave it behind.

I remember as a child hearing the quote “all that glitters is not gold” and thinking ‘that’s me’. I know the quote was not talking about my internal health however as a child I never separated my external image from emotional or mental health. Now it seems that it is a relevant quote to sum up the state of health many of our children, and adults, have. What may surprise many is that these childhood thoughts can have long lasting implications,impacting our lives,our health and our weight.

Over the past five months we have been under considerable stress in Christchurch as a result of the constant aftershocks. The latest quake on February 22 seems to be the final straw for many. Much of the central city is destroyed and there has been an exodus from Christchurch. Those that remain are burdened with the clean up and the costs: financial, material and emotional.

How can clinical problems such as depression be overcome without resorting to drugs. Peter explores the problem from an NLP perspective.

You’ve probably had times in your life where you’ve achieved a goal so easily that it seemed totally effortless. You established a goal and then it just seemed to arrive, as if you’d picked it out of a catalogue, placed your order and it was delivered to you at just the right time, all wrapped up and nicely packaged.

If you’re a human and if you have recently been affected from close by or from afar by natural disasters, as recently people in Canterbury and Japan have been, there is a high chance that you’ve been ‘stressed’ by these events. Most likely since you’re reading this, you are an adult and have unfortunately unlearned how to deal with such levels of stress appropriately. By now this may be making you display some form

We can have a situation which triggers an emotion. For example, someone says something to you which makes you feel a certain way, eg, your boyfriend says you look fat in your jeans and you feel upset. Now, the interesting thing is, we tend to think the current situation is the issue. And upon introspecting a little further, we usually find it is not...