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The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety
The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety

The Midwest Center for Stress & Anxiety is the leading provider of self-care, nutritional supplements and personal coaching for people suffering from chronic stress, anxiety and depression.

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Gratitude Therapy - By Carolyn Dickman I took my granddaughter, Alexis, to see Cirque du Soleil. I highly recommend the experience…not only of seeing the most unique circus in the world, but traveling with Alexis. They both inspire awe and gratitude for how wonderful people can be. Many of you know that children tend to keep adult feet firmly on the ground. There are no delusions with children. Spending time with them can help you see things more openly and inquisitively. Then you’re set up for gratitude. Gratitude Therapy and Acting Like a Kid Alexis told her mom and dad that she just loved it that her grandma was just like a little kid. Wow! I was just bustin’ my buttons. I got ready to hear the details like: “She’s so curious. She plays. She looks at things the way I do. She skips…” She said, “We only got as far as Tiffin (17 miles from home) and she had to go to the bathroom!” (This final one inspires terrific gratitude for rest stops.)
Gratitude for Birth and Life There’s another one for my little book titled, Things Worth Remembering. I keep this book to document the big events in our family life, and my work life. The book keeps growing with things worth remembering and feeling utterly grateful for. They are the inspiring moments, large and small, that fill our lives. For example, we have two more Grand babies, Ellie (Ellie Belle) and Alayna (Laynie). These were definitely big things to be grateful for! Gratitude for Miracles Large and Small Their births are in the book along with the exciting surrounding circumstances. Ellie was an almost home birth. I was on the phone the entire 11 miles to my daughter’s house telling her, “Blow-blow-blow.” (For those unfamiliar, exhaling air rapidly can afford some control over the urge to push in last stage labor – I said “some.”) I pushed – the accelerator. We waited for the ambulance and blew, blew, blew. It was frightening and exhilarating. So many of life’s most gracious moments come at the end of an ordeal that we can’t discredit them. Mommy delivered in the ER still wearing her running shoes. I think little seven-pound Ellie is destined to follow her mom to the Boston Marathon. The delivery was met by a standing ovation from everyone in the department; I think the janitor was even in the room! Afterwards the staff told us what a delight it was to have a baby born in their department because so often they deal with the other end of life. Thank God for miracles of all sizes.
Alayna’s birth was almost as exciting but for the fact that we were already at the hospital. Laynie was in a big hurry to get through all that smushing and pushing. Beth’s husband, his mom (a long-time friend of mine), and I massaged mom’s feet, back, neck and face as contractions came one on top of another – first baby, less than 3 hours of hard work. I really don’t know how these wonderfully strong women I reared have accomplished this, as my first babies were over 20 hour journeys. Alayna’s mommy is a teacher. One of her students asked the sub, “Is Mrs. P. going to the office to have her baby and then coming back to us?” I guess we have to remember in the experience of being a kindergartner, anything important happens in the office. Counting Your Blessings and Your Value Og Mandino, motivational speaker and author, gives us 17 rules to live by in one of his books, A BETTER WAY TO LIVE. The very first rule, “Count your blessings.” Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward toward the life that God intended for you…with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. That doesn’t mean everything in life will always be peachy, but counting your blessings and realizing your true worth can help you get through any ordeal. Life is full of so many wonderful moments that there is no reason not to expect great things around every corner.
The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety 12300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 325 Los Angeles, CA 90025 CALL: 1-866-771-9858 Website: www.midwestcenter.com

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  • 1. Gratitude Therapy - By Carolyn Dickman I took my granddaughter, Alexis, to see Cirque du Soleil. I highly recommend the experience…not only of seeing the most unique circus in the world, but traveling with Alexis. They both inspire awe and gratitude for how wonderful people can be. Many of you know that children tend to keep adult feet firmly on the ground. There are no delusions with children. Spending time with them can help you see things more openly and inquisitively. Then you’re set up for gratitude. Gratitude Therapy and Acting Like a Kid Alexis told her mom and dad that she just loved it that her grandma was just like a little kid. Wow! I was just bustin’ my buttons. I got ready to hear the details like: “She’s so curious. She plays. She looks at things the way I do. She skips…” She said, “We only got as far as Tiffin (17 miles from home) and she had to go to the bathroom!” (This final one inspires terrific gratitude for rest stops.)
  • 2. Gratitude for Birth and Life There’s another one for my little book titled, Things Worth Remembering. I keep this book to document the big events in our family life, and my work life. The book keeps growing with things worth remembering and feeling utterly grateful for. They are the inspiring moments, large and small, that fill our lives. For example, we have two more Grand babies, Ellie (Ellie Belle) and Alayna (Laynie). These were definitely big things to be grateful for! Gratitude for Miracles Large and Small Their births are in the book along with the exciting surrounding circumstances. Ellie was an almost home birth. I was on the phone the entire 11 miles to my daughter’s house telling her, “Blow-blow-blow.” (For those unfamiliar, exhaling air rapidly can afford some control over the urge to push in last stage labor – I said “some.”) I pushed – the accelerator. We waited for the ambulance and blew, blew, blew. It was frightening and exhilarating. So many of life’s most gracious moments come at the end of an ordeal that we can’t discredit them. Mommy delivered in the ER still wearing her running shoes. I think little seven-pound Ellie is destined to follow her mom to the Boston Marathon. The delivery was met by a standing ovation from everyone in the department; I think the janitor was even in the room! Afterwards the staff told us what a delight it was to have a baby born in their department because so often they deal with the other end of life. Thank God for miracles of all sizes.
  • 3. Alayna’s birth was almost as exciting but for the fact that we were already at the hospital. Laynie was in a big hurry to get through all that smushing and pushing. Beth’s husband, his mom (a long-time friend of mine), and I massaged mom’s feet, back, neck and face as contractions came one on top of another – first baby, less than 3 hours of hard work. I really don’t know how these wonderfully strong women I reared have accomplished this, as my first babies were over 20 hour journeys. Alayna’s mommy is a teacher. One of her students asked the sub, “Is Mrs. P. going to the office to have her baby and then coming back to us?” I guess we have to remember in the experience of being a kindergartner, anything important happens in the office. Counting Your Blessings and Your Value Og Mandino, motivational speaker and author, gives us 17 rules to live by in one of his books, A BETTER WAY TO LIVE. The very first rule, “Count your blessings.” Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward toward the life that God intended for you…with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. That doesn’t mean everything in life will always be peachy, but counting your blessings and realizing your true worth can help you get through any ordeal. Life is full of so many wonderful moments that there is no reason not to expect great things around every corner.
  • 4. The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety 12300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 325 Los Angeles, CA 90025 CALL: 1-866-771-9858 Website: www.midwestcenter.com