Monthly Archives: October 2010

Dealing with Difficult Bosses and Other Problem People

October 31, 2010
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Dealing with Difficult Bosses and Other Problem People

What Does Mindfulness Have to Offer? Part One Relationships can be our greatest source of both consternation and joy. Humans are social creatures and social support has as big an impact on health as physical factors such as diet and smoking. For most of us, our work life is embedded in a matrix of...

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What To Do When A Home Loan Modification Company Keeps Losing Your Paperwork

October 31, 2010
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What To Do When A Home Loan Modification Company Keeps Losing Your Paperwork

Facing home foreclosure and seeking a loan modification? But financial services companies keep losing your paperwork? Seems to be a trend. What do you do to get them to pay attention to you?

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Life Goes On: How To Soothe Yourself When All Seems Wrong

October 31, 2010
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Life Goes On: How To Soothe Yourself When All Seems Wrong

Dear Doctor Kathleen, I am so sad. My husband of 40 years died 5 months ago and I feel so lost. I’m in counseling and taking an antidepressant.  Both help, but there are days when I feel so empty. I know grieving takes time, but what can I do in the meantime? So Sad...

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Webster Bank Upsets Customers By Charging For “Free” Checking Account

October 31, 2010
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As banks are forced by regulators to curtail overdraft fees where they have made billions of dollars in profits, they are using the old checking account to boost their income by eliminating free services or requiring higher minimum cash held in accounts. One of the first to feel the effect of this change is...

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