Uplift Program

Building relationships, creating optimism, healing depression

• Upcoming Uplift events
• Articles and Multimedia
• Self-help, Meditations and Recovery Tips
• Health and Wellness News Stories

Upcoming Uplift Events

Don't miss the opportunity to attend an Uplift Intensive!

We'd like to announce a new Sydney Uplift in November and Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) for some health professionals in Tampa and Chicago.

Tampa: Sept 24 - 26, 2004 | Chicago: Oct 2 - 3, 2004
Melbourne: Sept 4 - 5, 2004 | Sydney: Nov 12 - 14, 2004

You can also learn how to create optimism and overcome depression at upcoming book signings and fr*e talks in Sydney. Or send your friends and family! Check our event schedule.

Articles and Multimedia

We've now got multimedia (audio/video) on our website!

Check out Bob and Alicia's recent interview on ABC-TV 7, Chicago, Sunday Morning News. They discuss how to beat depression using the techniques in Creating Optimism. View or Download Video Clips | Play Audio
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Summertime Blues: Healing for Health Professionals
Caring for patients often takes an emotional toll. In fact health care professionals have the highest rate of suicide of any profession. Bob speaks to Advance Newsmagazines about how practitioners can avoid stress and burn-out.

Self-help, Meditations and Recovery Tips

Depression and Relationships: Living With a Depressed Person
Depression can have a negative affect on your relationships. Bob shares his rules from Creating Optimism for living or working with a depression sufferer and avoiding codependency.

Just Be (Human)
Our society often doesn't allow the kinds of functional connections that make us human--connection to Nature, other people, our bodies and the Divine. Deprived of our essential humanity we become more isolated, more depressed, more anxious. Is the true challenge to forging a connection with the world around us not just "to be," but to be more human?

Health and Wellness News Stories

• Another Fringe Benefit For Highly Paid Employees: More Fun At Work
  Studies show that the greatest fringe benefit that top people at corporations get is relationships.
• Constant Confrontation And Defeat May Break Your Heart
  New study shows that while the body may seem to adapt to social stress, long-term damage to the heart may occur.
• A Little Help From Friends Makes Wounds Heal Faster
  New research in hamsters suggests that without companionship, wounds don't heal as fast.
• Personality May Influence Fertility
  Study shows temperament and character may indicate your fertility status, and psychotherapy may even be helpful in treating infertility.
• What Are Babies Thinking?
  Babies as young as five months old make subtle distinctions that their parents do not, revealing new information about how language develops in humans.
• Cut Kids' TV To Protect Health
  Children should watch no more than two hours of TV a day to protect their future health, scientists have warned.
• Children Sometimes Remember More Than Adults
  Believe it or not, a 5-year-old could beat most adults on a recognition memory test, at least under specific conditions, according to a new study.

PS. See you soon at a fr*e talk and book signing or an Uplift Program workshop. Check our event schedule.

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